- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE0396
McEwan, Kathleen (Kitty) Agnes Rose
(1894 – 1969)
- Born 15 March 1894, Surrey Hills, Victoria, Australia
- Died 17 August 1969
- Occupation Golfer, Journalist, Print journalist, Sports Journalist, War Worker
Summary
Kitty McEwan was educated at Ormiston Ladies’ College and became a freelance journalist working with Australian Home Beautiful in 1929. Interested in the game of golf, she began writing about women and golf, for the Radiator in 1937 and the Sun News-Pictorial in 1938. She organised fund-raising for patriotic appeals during World War II. In June 1942 McEwan was appointed superintendent in Victoria of the Australian Women’s Land Army, a position she held until March 1946. After the war she returned to journalism, writing for the Sun News-Pictorial from which she retired in 1966. Kitty McEwan served as honorary publicity officer and an executive member of the National Council of Women Victoria and a councillor of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria. She died on 17 August 1969, aged 75 years.
Details
Kitty McEwan was a keen sportswoman and was a member of several sporting clubs and associations, including the Barwon Heads Golf Club and the Women’s Amateur Sports Council. She used her role as a journalist to promote women’s sport to a wide audience. Her efforts in this area have seen her commemorated publicly. In 2003 she had a street in the Canberra suburb of Mckellar names after her, and the pre-eminent Victorian sportswoman of the year receives the VicSport Kitty McEwan Sportswoman of the Year award.
Events
- 1929 - 1966
Archival resources
Digital resources
- Title: First birthday party of the Australian Women's Land Army.
- Type: Image
- Description: Lady (Ruby) Dugan, wife of the Governor of Victoria, cuts the cake at the first birthday party of the Australian Women's Land Army. Standing on Lady Dugan's left is Miss Kitty McEwan, State President. MELBOURNE, VIC. 1943-07-27. (Herald Newspaper)
- Date: 3 May, 2023
Published resources
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Resource Section
- McEwan, Kathleen Agnes Rose, Hardisty, Sue, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150244b.htm
- Journal Article
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Site Exhibition
- The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html
- She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html
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Resource
- Trove: McEwan, Kathleen (1894-1969), http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-700077