Tag: Hidden women of history
Hidden women of history: Annie Lock was a bolshie, outspoken Australian missionary, full of contradictions
Missionary Annie Lock with Enbarda (Betsy) left, and Dolly Cumming, both children from the Alice Springs area in Central Australia. Photo taken in...
Hidden women of history: Catherine Hay Thomson, the Australian undercover journalist who went inside asylums and hospitals
Catherine Hay Thomson went undercover as an assistant nurse
for her series on conditions at Melbourne Hospital.
A. J. Campbell Collection/National Library of Australia
In 1886,...
Hidden women of history: Wauba Debar, an Indigenous swimmer from Tasmania who saved her captors
Though her brave acts were acknowledged after her death,
Wauba Debar’s grave was later robbed in the name of “science”. Tirin/Wikimedia
Aboriginal and Torres...
Hidden women of history: Hop Lin Jong, a Chinese immigrant in the early days of White Australia
The family of Hop Lin Jong (who is pictured on the far left)
at the wedding of her daughter, Ruby (third from right)...