- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE0103
Lowenstein, Wendy Katherin
(1927 – 2006)- Born 25 June 1927, Kew, Victoria, Australia
- Died 16 October 2006, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Occupation Author, Trade unionist
Summary
Wendy Lowenstein wrote a number of the most celebrated oral histories in Australia, focusing on the lives and struggles of working class people. She is also one of Australia’s best known historians of folklore. A member of many activist organisations since the age of fifteen, Wendy contributed to both social justice and aspects of Australian history which had, until she tackled them, been largely ignored.
Archival resources
Published resources
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Resource
- Trove: Lowenstein, Wendy (1927-2006), http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-619335
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Site Exhibition
- The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders