Letters to Joan Healey (nee Ryder) from Dame Mary Gilmore, 1938-1957
Letters to Joan Healey (nee Ryder) from Dame Mary Gilmore, 1938-1957
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1938-1957
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MLMSS 8232
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0.01 metres of textual material (1 folder)
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Fonds
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4 letters written to Joan Healey (nee Ryder) from Dame Mary Gilmore, dated 28 February 1938; 30 March 1940; 17 February 1941 and 14 December 1957.
Also includes a printed poem, by Mary Gilmore, with a handwritten annotation to Joan Healey, dated Hogmanay 1942 [includes envelope]; a newscutting from The Daily Telegraph, 9 August 1945, featuring a...
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Full title
Letters to Joan Healey (nee Ryder) from Dame Mary Gilmore, 1938-1957
Contextual Information
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Presented by Joan Ryder Healey, October 2007
Administrative / Biographical history
Dame Mary Jean Gilmore (1865-1962), writer, was born on 16 August 1865 at Mary Vale, Woodhouselee, near Goulburn, New South Wales. She was a teacher, poet and author.
Over the years Mary Gilmore campaigned for a wide range of social and economic reforms, such as votes for women, old-age and invalid pensions, child endowment and improved treatmen...
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MLMSS 8232
Record Identifier
92eVODoY
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/92eVODoY
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955969
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