• Entry type: Person
  • Entry ID: AWE2889

McGowan, Henrietta Celeste

  • Pen name H. C. McG.
    Married name Walker, Henrietta
    Also known as Walker, Mrs Frank
( – 1937)
  • Died 1937
  • Occupation Journalist, Print journalist

Summary

Henrietta McGowan was a pioneer woman journalist who edited a women’s page for The Age newspaper in Melbourne for seventeen years. She had a keen interest in issues affecting women, especially working women. In 1913 she collaborated with Margaret Cuthbertson, the first female factory inspector in Victoria, to publish Woman’s Work, a guide to the nature, terms and conditions of many kinds of work for women.

Events

  • 1900 - 1920

Published resources

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    • Cuthbertson, Margaret (1864 - 1944)