• Entry type: Resource
  • Entry ID: AWH001488

Interview with Dorothy West [sound recording] Interviewer: Yvonne Abbott

  • Repository State Library of South Australia
  • Reference SRG 438/29/32
  • Date Range 1986 - 1986
  • Description

    30 minutes Dorothy West was born in 1898 in Victoria. She always wanted to be a teacher. Went to school in Horsham, moved to Adelaide with her family and did her Bachelor of Arts and teacher training in Adelaide. She taught at Adelaide High but when she married she was no longer allowed to teach. She did teach during the war. Dorothy joined the Lyceum Club after her husband’s death. Lived in her street since 1930.

  • Formats Sound recording (cassette) analogue
  • Access Access to use copies only with written permission from the donor. Contact the President, Lyceum Club. Original WITHDRAWN.
  • Finding Aid Biographical outline (2 pages)

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  • Primary Creator
    • West, Doris (1898 - 1990)