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1 Susan Priestley Review of Eleanor Robin, Swanston: Merchant Statesman Susan Priestley , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Journal of Biography and History , April no. 3 2020; (p. 173-177)
— Review of Swanston : Merchant Statesman Eleanor Robin , 2018 single work biography 'The 1940 discovery in a disused flour mill on the outskirts of Hobart of the entire archive of the local Derwent Bank, from its founding in 1828 until its closure and liquidation, 1849–54, would thrill anyone with a historical bent, then or since. Archivists, on the other hand, might gasp at the somewhat chancy handling of the collection before what remained finally reached safe haven in the University of Tasmania archives. But at least it escaped the recycled paper drive of wartime Australia that induced the indiscriminate culling of some records, official as well as private. Eleanor Robin writes about the archive’s discovery and subsequent mining by historians and others in an absorbing introduction to this biography, which seeks to reinstate Charles Swanston (1789–1850) in Australian historical memory.' (Introduction)
1 y separately published work icon Henrietta Augusta Dugdale : An Activist 1827-1918 Susan Priestley , Melbourne : Melbourne Books , 2011 Z1820210 2011 single work biography 'Pioneer feminist Henrietta Augusta Dugdale holds an important place in Australian history. Her witty, forceful campaigning helped bring women's rights to prominence in the second half of the nineteenth century. This biography of a thrice-married woman, who was born in St Pancras, London, during the reign of George IV and died 91 years later at Point Lonsdale, Victoria, seeks to understand why and how she came to Australia, became a vegetarian, a secularist, initiated the first female suffrage society in Australasia and, in her late middle age, published a futuristic allegory titled A Few Hours In a Far Off Age.
1 Scholar Who Ignited Batman Controversy Harriet Veitch , Mimi Colligan , Susan Priestley , 2009 single work obituary (for Marjorie Tipping )
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 10 November 2009; (p. 22)
1 Trailblazing Woman of Letters Wrote Extensively on Australian History Mimi Colligan , Susan Priestley , 2009 single work obituary (for Marjorie Tipping )
— Appears in: The Age , 3 November 2009; (p. 17)
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