• Entry type: Resource
  • Entry ID: AWH000019

Jessie Street interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]

  • Repository National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection
  • Reference ORAL TRC 1/197-198
  • Date Range 18-Mar-67 - 18-Mar-67
  • Description

    2 sound tape reels (ca. 62 min.) Street speaks about her early childhood in India ; the quality of life for women in Australia at the beginning of the century ; her family history ; her university years ; England during the war years ; working with prostitutes in New York ; thoughts on trade unions and female membership; about how she prepares for her speeches ; Street reads a passage from her book “Truth or repose”.

  • Access Open access for research; written permission of literary executor required for copies and public use.
  • Finding Aid Timed summary (2 p.) and transcript available (22 p.)

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  • Primary Creator
    • Street, Jessie Mary Grey (1889 - 1970)
    • de Berg, Hazel Estelle (1913 - 1984)