• Entry type: Organisation
  • Entry ID: IMP0210

Alexandra Club

(From 1903 – )

Summary

In 1903 some of the 260 members of the Wattle Club decided to expand their activities. At a meeting held on the 4th of August that year, members voted to carry the motion: ‘That the name of the Wattle Club be changed to “Alexandra Club”.

According to Monica Starke, author of The Alexandra Club: A Narrative 1903-1983, Rule 1 of the Club states categorically: ‘The name of the Club shall be the Alexandra Club and it shall be exclusively for social and non-political purposes’. The only quality sought in a prospective candidate was – and is – that she should be ‘clubable’.

Archival resources

  • State Library of Victoria
    • Records, ca. 1908-ca. 1966. [manuscript]
    • Records, 1905-1982. [manuscript]

Published resources

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