• Entry type: Person
  • Entry ID: AWE3981

Wright, Mary

  • Birth name Lamm, Mary
(1903 – 1993)
  • Born 1903, Sydney New South Wales Australia
  • Died 1993
  • Occupation Trade unionist, Women's rights activist

Summary

Mary Wright was a labour activist and feminist with a long history of militantly supporting the rights of Australian women and workers. She was a founding member in the 1920s of the Militant Women’s Movement – the central women’s department of the Communist Party of Australia. Her husband, Tom, was an important figure in Australian labour history.

Archival resources

  • National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection
    • Mary Wright interviewed by Richard Raxworthy in the Labor Council of New South Wales oral history project [sound recording]
  • Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Australian National University
    • Tom and Mary Wright collection deposit 1
    • Tom and Mary Wright Collection deposit 2
  • State Library of New South Wales
    • Mary Wright papers, 1937-1990

Published resources

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  • Colleague
    • Street, Jessie Mary Grey (1889 - 1970)
    • Bacon, Eva (1909 - 1994)
  • Related Events
    • International Women's Day (1928 - )
  • Membership
    • Union of Australian Women (1950 - )
    • Housewives Association of New South Wales (1918 - )
    • Militant Women's Movement (1926 - )

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