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''Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive, / But to be young was very heaven.’ William Wordsworth was writing about the French Revolution, but the sentiment could have applied to the three McDonagh sisters in 1920s Sydney. Isabel (born in 1899), Phyllis (1900), and Paulette (1901) were the beneficiaries of two intertwined revolutions – modernism and feminism – that encouraged them to develop skills outside the domestic sphere and to become experts in their field. Daringly, they chose filmmaking, the great obsession of the period; and they were very good at it.' (Introduction)
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Isabel, Phyllis, and Paulette : Three Pioneering Filmmakers
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- Those Dashing McDonagh Sisters : Australia’s First Female Filmmaking Team 2022 single work biography
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