The Australian Women's Register

The biography of Gwendolen Luly, beautifully presented in manuscript format and containing a wealth of documents and photographs of the period from 1898-1927. Gwen attended the University Practising School, 1911-1913. (This later became University High School). Reports, certificates and photographs of classmates, as well as a Physics exercise book, 1912, are included. In 1919 Gwen started her nursing career at the Alfred Hospital, graduating in 1922, when she undertook postgraduate studies, and became the Senior Sister of Operating Systems. There are letters and references from senior members of the medical staff: Mr. R. Brown, Mr Balcombe Quick, and Mr James S. Buchannan. There is also a letter from the State Library of Victoria thanking Gwen for a donation of photographs of the Alfred Hospital. This volume ends in 1927 with the death of Gwen’s grandmother Anna Bartlett (nee Dare) on 8.05.1927.