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Women

Published Resources

Books

  • Bate, Weston, Lucky city: the first generation at Ballarat, 1851-1901, Melbourne University Press, Carlton South, 1978. Details
  • Skinner, Emily, A woman on the goldfields: recollections of Emily Skinner 1854-1878, E. Duyker (ed.), Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1995. Details

Book Sections

  • Anderson, Margaret, 'Mrs Charles Clacy, Lola Montez and Poll the Grogseller: glimpses of women on the early Victorian goldfields', in Iain McCalman, Alexander Cook and Andrew Reeves (eds), Gold: forgotten histories and lost objects of Australia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001. Details
  • Asher, Louise, 'Martha Clendinning: a woman’s life on the goldfields', in Lake, Marilyn and Farley Kelly (eds), Double time: women in Victoria - 150 years, Penguin Books, Ringwood, 1985. Details
  • Grimshaw, Patricia and Charles Fahey, 'Family and community in Castlemaine', in Grimshaw, Patricia, Chris McConville and Ellen McEwen (eds), Families in colonial Australia, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1985. Details

Newspaper Articles

  • 'Servan’s Home and Asylum for Homeless Females', Ballarat Star, 13 March 1857. Details
  • 'ASSAULT:- Carrol v. Vasey', Ballarat Times, 28 February 1858. Details
Title
A letter from a wife in Scotland to her husband on the Victorian goldfields
Type
Narration
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Details
Title
English emigrant Sarah Davenport reflects on the early days of the gold rush
Type
Narration
Publisher
The Text Publishing Company
Details
Title
Chance for Bachelors
Type
Extract
Date
27 November 1857
Details
Title
Eliza Perrin's day dress
Type
Image
Date
c. 1860
Control
Collection Number: 91.0004
Repository
Sovereign Hill Gold Museum
Details
Title
The Sandhurst Impersonator - Mrs Edward De Lacy Evans
Type
Image
Date
1 October 1879
Control
Accession Number: IAN01/10/79/149, Image Number: mp004783
Repository
State Library of Victoria
Details