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LOWENSTEIN
Katherin Wendy
25 June 1927 — 16 October 2006
AKA: née Robertson, Wendy
Additional Information
Special Achievements
- 1974 - Her first [self-]published book Shocking, Shocking: the improper play rhymes of Australian Children.
- 1977 - Co-author of The Immigrants, with Morag Loh.
- 1978 - Author of Weevils in the Flour.
- 1980 - Lowenstein co-authored the revised edition of Cinderella dressed in Yella.
- 1982 – She created Bookworkers Press.
- 1982 - Published and co-authored Under the Hook: Melbourne waterside workers remember: 1900-1980, with Tom Hills.
- 1982 - Lowenstein was a founding member of the Victorian Branch of the Oral History Association of Australia.
Additional Information
- Bachelor of Arts, University of Melbourne.
- Graduate studies in teaching and librarianship.
- Journalist with the Radio Times.
- Editor for Youth Voice.
- 1952 - She co-founded the Victorian Folk Lore Society.
- Edited for fifteen years the magazine Gumsucker's Gazette, later renamed Australian Tradition.
- 1965 – She helped organise the first Port Phillip Folk Festival, which evolved into the National Folk Festival, now an annual Easter event in Canberra.
Resources
Link - An ear for the ordinary folk
Sydney Morning Herald
Link - Lowenstein, Wendy (1927 - 2006)
The Australian Women's Register
Link - Lowenstein, Wendy Katherin
The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia
Image - Wendy Lowenstein at Palm Sunday rally, April 1984
Copyright owned by University of Melbourne Archives.
John B. Ellis
Image - May Day 1974 ; Wendy Lowenstein
Copyright owned by University of Melbourne Archives.
John B. Ellis
Link - Wendy Lowenstein
Wikipedia
Link - LOWENSTEIN COLLECTION
National Library of Australia
