• Entry type: Resource
  • Entry ID: AWH001064

The Half Open Door

  • Repository The University of Melbourne Archives
  • Reference 2012.0293
  • Date Range 1978 - 1983
  • Description

    The collection relates to preparation and publication of “The Half Open Door”, a book of sixteen autobiographical chapters by sixteen women of various professions, most of whom were associated with the University of Melbourne. Patricia Grimshaw and Lynne Strahan were joint editors. Patricia Grimshaw wrote the introduction, Lynne Strahan was a contributor along with Barbara Falk, Therese Radic, Nina Christesen, Mary Macqueen, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Joyce Nicholson, Dame Kate Cambell, Helen Gifford, Alison Patrick, Beatrice Faust, Norma Grieve, Deidre FitzGerald, Mary Turner Shaw, Diana Dyason, Judith Lumley. The portrait illustrations were by Sandra Simon.

  • Quantity 4 boxes 0.48 m
  • Access Open

Related entries


  • Primary
    • Grimshaw, Patricia (1938 - )
  • See also
    • Nicholson, Joyce Thorpe (1919 - 2011)
    • Patrick, Alison Mary Houston (1921 - 2006)
    • Grieve, Norma Retta (1925 - 2006)
    • Dyason, Diana Joan (1919 - 1989)
    • Fitzpatrick, Kathleen Elizabeth (1905 - 1990)
    • Christesen, Nina Mikhailovna (1911 - 2001)
    • Campbell, Kate Isabel (1899 - 1986)