• Entry type: Organisation
  • Entry ID: AWE0826

Lyceum Club Adelaide Incorporated

(From 1922 – )

Summary

The Lyceum Club Adelaide Incorporated was founded in 1922 by Helen Mayo who became its first president. Its object was to advance the status of women in professional life and in art and letters.

Archival resources

  • State Library of South Australia
    • Adelaide Lyceum Club : SUMMARY RECORD
    • Adelaide Lyceum Club Oral History [sound recording] Interviewers: Yvonne Abbott, Aileen Bond, Roxy Byrne, Barbara Drake, Necia Gilbert, Helen Jones, Diane Kinnaird, Eva McLaren, Stella Sobels, Sheila Wesley-Smith, Lois Mander-Jones
    • Recording of reminiscences at Lyceum Club's 70th Anniversary Dinner [sound recording]

Published resources

  • Book
    • The Lyceum Club Adelaide : a history, 1922-2002, 2003
    • History of the Adelaide Lyceum Club, [1972]
    • The new women : Adelaide's early women graduates, Mackinnon, Alison, 1942-, 1986
  • Book Section
    • Helen Mayo, MacKinnon, Alison, [1988]
  • Resource

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