Author honored with the Order of Australia in 1996 for services to art and literature.
Stories of dedicated and resourceful women who demanded something different from the restricted lives of their mothers and grandmothers.
The achievements of Australian women have long been overshadowed by the deeds of Australian men. Susanna de Vries has remedied this with her outstanding research, and this audio book details the life stories of eighteen courageous Australian women who broke down the barriers of prejudice.From Lillie Goodisson, pioneer of family planning; Eileen Joyce, world famous pianist; Enid Lyons, our first female cabinet minister, these are women who have affected the lives of thousands through their achievements. The Complete Book of Great Australian Women tells the story of women who changed the course of history.
“… reminiscent of the social history of Patsy Adam-Smith.” — Good Reading Magazine
...reminiscent of the social history of Patsy Adam-Smith.
Susanna de Vries is an art historian and lectures at the University of Queensland. She has been the recipient of a Churchill Fellowship to study Renaissance art in Italy and has written extensively on art and history both here and overseas. She was made a member of the Order of Australia in 1996 ‘for services to art and literature’. In 2001 she was awarded a Tyrone Guthrie Fellowship to write in Ireland by the Literature Board of the Australia Council. Her biography of Joice NanKivell Loch, Blue Ribbons, Bitter Bread: the Life of Joice NanKivell Loch, Australia’s Most Decorated Woman, won the Sligo Non-Fiction prize and was short-listed for the Queensland Premier’s Non-Fiction award.
