• Entry type: Resource
  • Entry ID: AWH001341

Papers and objects of Bessie Rischbieth, 1900-1967 [manuscript]

  • Repository National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection
  • Reference MS 2004
  • Date Range 1900 - 1967
  • Description

    1. Family and personal correspondence, 1911-1959. 2. Travel diaries for 1927, 1946 and 1957. 3. Articles and broadcasts with accompanying notes, 1936-1950. 4. Collection of documents relating to the English Suffragette movement. 5. Papers relating to Australian women’s suffrage. 6. Papers relating to Rischbieth’s involvement in various women’s organisations. 7. Papers relating to the British Commonwealth League, which was formed in 1925 as a branch of the International Women’s Suffrage Alliance. 8. Papers relating to the International Women’s Suffrage Alliance, which was founded in 1904 and in 1946 became the International Alliance of Women. 9. Correspondence, reports and other papers relating to Rischbieth’s 1935 appointment as Australian Delegate to the League of Nations. 10. Papers relating to the formation of the United Nations, 1944-1945, with reports of the U.N. Commission on the Status of women. 11. Subject files on various countries and subjects. The files include correspondence, pamphlets, press cuttings and other Papers.

  • Quantity 0 7.5 m
  • Access Available for research. Not for loan.

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  • See also
    • Street, Jessie Mary Grey (1889 - 1970)
  • Primary Creator
    • Rischbieth, Bessie Mabel (1874 - 1967)