- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE4047
Ketels, Olive Francis
(1915 – 2007)- Born 11 October, 1915
- Died 25 August, 2007
- Occupation Journalist, Print journalist
Summary
Olive Ketels learned many aspects of running a country newspaper from her stepfather, George Hopkins, a newspaperman who started many newspapers in the 1920s and 30s in regional Victoria. She was the sole female linotype operator in Victoria, as well as a journalist, subeditor, layout artist and composing room stonehand at the family paper, the Leongatha Echo, which she kept going during the war, when her older brother was away in New Guinea. As a widow with a small child, she later went on to run a very successful business in Warrnambool (a corsetry & lingerie salon!) & was involved in many other aspects of the life of that town.
Events
- 1940 - 1960
Published resources
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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
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Resource
- Trove: Ketels, Olive (1915-2007), http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-744074