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'Eilean Giblin arrived in Australia from England in 1919 with a shipload of war brides, almost certainly the only woman not wearing a wedding ring. She believed both husband and wife should have rings or neither. She brought with her a commitment to women’s rights and social justice developed through the suffrage movement and left-wing social and political circles. During the next three decades, in three Australian cities, she worked to advance her feminist and humanitarian ideals.

'In Hobart in the 1920s she campaigned for ‘equal citizenship’; she was the first woman appointed to a Tasmanian hospital board, and she represented Tasmania at the 1923 International Woman Suffrage Congress in Rome. In Melbourne in the 1930s she led a committee that achieved the long sought goal of a non-denominational university women’s college. And in Canberra during World War II she was one of a small minority of Australians who championed the cause of the enemy aliens, many of them Jewish, deported from Britain on the ship Dunera, and she set off on a lone 500 kilometre journey to investigate their internment camp conditions.

'Patricia Clarke draws on original records and evidence, such as Giblin’s diary kept during World War II – a unique social record and a powerful witness to the immense suffering and futility of war – to portray the courageous public and private life of this unconventional feminist.' (Publisher's blurb)

Notes

  • Epigraph:

    "No woman's life is a single story"

    Sarah Pritchard Revealing Women's Life Stories

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Clayton, Murrumbeena - Oakleigh - Springvale area, Melbourne South East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Monash University Publishing , 2013 .
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      Extent: xxi, 214 pp.
      Description: illustrations, facsimiles, portraits
      Note/s:
      • Published June 2013
      • The Governor-General of Australia, the Honourable Quentin Bryce AC CVO, launched Eilean Giblin on 15 July at the National Library of Australia.
      ISBN: 9781921867842 (paperback)

Works about this Work

Review : Eilean Giblin: A Feminist between the Wars Rosemary Francis , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , vol. 45 no. 3 2014; (p. 472-473)

— Review of Eilean Giblin : A Feminist between the Wars Patricia Clarke , 2013 single work biography
An Unknown, an Interloper, a Feminist Sybil Nolan , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Inside Story , March 2014; Inside Story , May no. 20 2014; (p. 13)

— Review of Eilean Giblin : A Feminist between the Wars Patricia Clarke , 2013 single work biography

'Eilean Giblin touched much that was formative in twentieth-century Australia'

Singing the Unsung Wendy Michaels , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: History Australia , vol. 11 no. 1 2014; (p. 258-260)

— Review of Eilean Giblin : A Feminist between the Wars Patricia Clarke , 2013 single work biography
[Untitled] Bobbie Oliver , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Journal of Politics & History , vol. 60 no. 1 2014; (p. 138-139)

— Review of Eilean Giblin : A Feminist between the Wars Patricia Clarke , 2013 single work biography
[Review] Eilean Giblin : A Feminist between the Wars Judith Smart , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , November vol. 38 no. 4 2014; (p. 513-515)

— Review of Eilean Giblin : A Feminist between the Wars Patricia Clarke , 2013 single work biography
Published online 12 November 2014.
[Untitled] Serge Liberman , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal , November vol. 21 no. 3 2013; (p. 459-462)

— Review of Eilean Giblin : A Feminist between the Wars Patricia Clarke , 2013 single work biography
[Untitled] Bobbie Oliver , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Journal of Politics & History , vol. 60 no. 1 2014; (p. 138-139)

— Review of Eilean Giblin : A Feminist between the Wars Patricia Clarke , 2013 single work biography
Singing the Unsung Wendy Michaels , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: History Australia , vol. 11 no. 1 2014; (p. 258-260)

— Review of Eilean Giblin : A Feminist between the Wars Patricia Clarke , 2013 single work biography
An Unknown, an Interloper, a Feminist Sybil Nolan , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Inside Story , March 2014; Inside Story , May no. 20 2014; (p. 13)

— Review of Eilean Giblin : A Feminist between the Wars Patricia Clarke , 2013 single work biography

'Eilean Giblin touched much that was formative in twentieth-century Australia'

Review : Eilean Giblin: A Feminist between the Wars Rosemary Francis , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , vol. 45 no. 3 2014; (p. 472-473)

— Review of Eilean Giblin : A Feminist between the Wars Patricia Clarke , 2013 single work biography
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