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Helen Macpherson Smith Trust
- Helen Macpherson Schutt; Helen Macpherson Smith Trust. Details
National Archives of Australia, Melbourne Office
National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra
National Archives of Australia, Sydney Office
National Library of Australia
- Dr. Lucy Edith Gullett, 1970?, JAFp BIO 217; Milestones in Australian medicine; National Library of Australia. Details
- Order of service for the dedication of the Dame Eadith Walker, D.B.E., memorial fence, gates and flood lights by the Most Reverend Howard West Kilvinton Mowll, D.D., Archbishop of Sydney on Saturday, 20th September, 1941, 20 September 1941, JAFp HIST 446; Holy Trinity Church, (Concord West, N.S.W.); National Library of Australia. Details
National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection
- Griffiths, Nesta (1), MS 4829; File 46-47. Letters (ca. 166 sub-files), 1942-1977 - Box 5; Papers of Douglas Stewart, 1935-1973 [manuscript]; Griffiths, Glynde Nesta (1889 - 1968); National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection. Details
- Papers of Herbert and Ivy Brookes, 1869-1970 [manuscript, 1869 - 1970, MS 1924; National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection. Details
National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection
- Dame Elisabeth Murdoch interviewed by John Farquharson [sound recording], 20 February 1995, ORAL TRC 3194; Murdoch, Elisabeth Joy (1909 - 2012), Farquharson, John; National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection. Details
- Papers of Janet Clarke, c. 1880 - c. 1909; Clarke, Janet Marion (1851 - 1909); Private Hands (contact Australian Women's Archive Project). Details
State Library of Victoria
- Devil's river country : selections from the history of the Mansfield district, [no later than 1979]. [manuscript]., c. 1979, Accession no: MS 10606; Morris, George; State Library of Victoria. Details
- Papers of Ola Cohn, 1912-1964. [manuscript]., 1912 - 1964, Accession no: MS 8506; Cohn, Carola (Ola) (1892 - 1964); State Library of Victoria. Details
- Records, 1912-ca. 1970. [manuscript]., c. 1912 - 1970, Accession no: MS 11270; Lyceum Club (Melbourne) (1912 - ); State Library of Victoria. Details
- Records, 1975-2001 [manuscript]., 1975 - 2001, Accession no: MS 13370; Stegley Foundation; State Library of Victoria. Details
The University of Melbourne Archives
- Porter, Una Beatrice (1900-1996), 1900 - 1996, 1997.0002; Porter, Una Beatrice (1900 - 1996); The University of Melbourne Archives. Details
Bibliographical Resources
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- Anheier, Helmut K. and Diana Leat, Creative Philanthropy: Toward a New Philanthropy for the Twenty-First Century, Routledge, London, 2006. Details
- Arnold Yeldham & Mary Raine Medical Research Foundation, Three decades of service: the Arnold Yeldham & Mary Raine Medical Research Foundation, Nedlands, W.A., 1991. Details
B
- Beaumont, Jeanette and W. Vere Hole, Letters from Louisa: A Woman's View of the 1890s, Based on the Letters of Louisa Macdonald, First Principal of the Women's College, University of Sydney, Allen & Unwin, St Leonards, NSW, 1996. Details
- Blackman, Barbara, Certain Chairs, Charles Blackman, Viking, Ringwood, Vic, 1968. Details
- Blackman, Barbara, Glass After Glass: Autobiographical Reflections, Viking, Ringwood, Vic, 1997. Details
- Blainey, Ann, If God Prospers Me: A Portrait of Frederick John Cato, Brown Prior Anderson Pty Ltd, Victoria, 1990. Details
- Brookes, Mabel Balcombe (1890-1975), Memoirs, Macmillan, South Melbourne, Vic., 1974, 216 pp. Details
C
- Cadzow, Jane, 'Big Hearted Australians', Good Weekend, 17 July 1993, p. 11. Details
- Clarke, Michael, Clarke of Rupertswood: The Life and Times of William John Clarke, First Baronet of Rupertswood, 1831-1897, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, Vic, 1995. Details
- Clemente, Caroline, 'The Private Face of Patronage: The Howitts, Artistics and Intellectual Philanthropists in Early Melbourne Society', MA thesis, The University of Melbourne, 2005. Details
- Cohen, Lysbeth, Rachel Forster Hospital: the first fifty years, Rachel Forster Hospital, Redfern, NSW, 1972, 48 pp. Details
- Cosgrove, Bryony (ed.), Portrait of a Friendship: The Letters of Barbara Blackman and Judith Wright, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2007. Details
D
- 'Dame Hilda's a starter in a race for equality (but she doesn't want to be first across the line)', Woman's Day, 3 September 1979, p. 32. Details
- Davidson, Jim, Lyrebird Rising: Louise Hanson-Dyer of Oiseau-Lyre, 1884-1962, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Vic, 1994. Details
- Dunn, Margaret, The Dauntless Bunch : The Story of the YWCA in Australia, YWCA,, Clifton Hill, Vic., 1991, 264 pp. Details
E
- Evans, Caroline and Naomi Parry, 'Vessels of Progressivism? Tasmanian State Girls and Eugenics, 1900-1940', Australian Historical Studies, vol. 32, no. 117, 2001, pp. 324-326. Details
F
- Fitzpatrick, Kathleen, 1905-1990., Solid bluestone foundations and other memories of a Melbourne girlhood, 1908-1928, Macmillan, South Melbourne, 1983, 210 pp. Details
- Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, 'Ivy Brookes', UniNews, vol. 12, no. 14, 11-25 August 2003, p. 4. Details
G
- Gleeson, B.J., 'A Public Space for Women: The Case of Charity in Colonial Melbourne', Area, vol. 27, no. 3, September 1995, pp. 193-207. Details
- Griffiths, Glynde Nesta, Point Piper: Past and Present, Ure Smith, Sydney, 1947. Details
- Griffiths, Glynde Nesta, Some Houses and People of New South Wales, Ure Smith, Sydney, 1949. Details
- Griffiths, Glynde Nesta, Some Southern Homes of New South Wales, Shepherd Press, Sydney, 1952. Details
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- Hamilton, John, 'The YWCA and the Subject of Great Concern to Women: The Boss Speaks Up for Her Girls', Herald, 24 August 1972, p. 2. Details
- Harari, Fiona, 'Portraits of a Lady', The Weekend Australian, 26-27 April 1997, pp. 18-21, 23. Details
- Hole, W. Vere and Anne H. Treweeke, The History of the Women's College within the University of Sydney, Sydney, 1953. Details
K
- Koshland, Ellen, 'Equity, Excellence and Effectiveness: Moving Forward on Schooling Arrangements in Australia', Education Foundation, 2005, http://www.educationfoundation.org.au/Downloads/Research. Details
- Koshland, Ellen, 'Feature Interview: Ellen Koshland', Australian Philanthropy, vol. 70, Spring 2008, 2008. Details
L
- Latreille, Anne, Garden of a Lifetime: Dame Elisabeth Murdoch at Cruden Farm, Pan Macmillan Australia, Sydney, 2007. Details
- Lemon, Barbara, 'A Great Form of Love: Women Philanthropists in Australian History', in Hindsight, ABC Radio National, Radio documentary, ABC Radio National, Melbourne, 10 February 2008, http://www.abc.net.au/rn/hindsight/. Details
- Lemon, Barbara, 'The Word in the Stone: Sculptor Ola Cohn', in Hindsight, ABC Radio National, Radio documentary, Michelle Rayner, ABC Radio National, Melbourne, 28 September 2008, http://www.abc.net.au/rn/hindsight/. Details
- Lemon, Barbara, 'In Her Gift: Activism and Altruism in Australian Women's Philanthropy, 1880-2005', PhD thesis, School of Historical Studies, University of Melbourne, 2008. Details
- Lord Mayor's Fund, Lord Mayor's Fund News Report, Contains article 'Our Thanks to the Colliers', Melbourne, 1995. Details
M
- 'Ma Gave Away £750,000: From Bush Pub to W.A. Fortune', Sunday Mirror, 25 September 1960. Details
- Matthew, Heather, The Widow of Wappan: The Story of Ann Fraser Bon and the Wappan Project., Mansfield Historical Society, Mansfield, 2003. Details
- Monks, John 1929-, Elisabeth Murdoch: Two Lives, Macmillan, Chippendale, NSW, 1994, 338 pp. Details
N
- 'Nigel Thomson Wins 1997 Archibald Prize', The Age (Melbourne), 22 March 1997, p. A11. Details
P
- Porter, Una B. (ed.), Growing Together: Letters between Frederick John Cato and Frances Bethune, 1881 to 1884, Queensberry Hill Press, 1981. Details
- 'Portraits in Cameo: Mrs. Herbert Brookes', Leader, 24 October 1936. Details
R
- Rutledge, Helen, My Grandfather's House, Doubleday, Sydney, 1986. Details
S
- Sandilands, Jane, 'The Invisible Samaritan: Helen M Schutt', Helen Schutt House Association Inc, p. 1, http://www.netspace.net.au/~hshassoc/helessch.html. Details
- Sandilands, Jane, Helen Macpherson Schutt, Philanthropist, Helen M Schutt Trust, Melbourne, 2001, 36 pp. Details
- Sandilands, Jane, The Collie Print Trust: Concept to Excellence, The Collie Print Trust, Melbourne, 2005. Details
- Sangster, Meg, The Mary Raine Story: From Putney to Perth, Meg Sangster and The Raine Medical Research Foundation, Perth, 2001. Details
- Skehan, Patricia, The Walkers of Yaralla: The History of Thomas Walker and Dame Eadith Walker, P. Skehan Publishing, Concord, NSW, 2000. Details
- Smart, Judith, 'A Mission to the Home: The Housewives Association, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and Protestant Christianity, 1920-1940', Australian Feminist Studies, vol. 13 no. 28, October 1998, 1998, pp. 215-234. Details
- Steinberg, Margaret A. and Lara Cain, 'Putting Paid to Prescribed Roles: A New Era for Australian Women and Philanthropy', Third Sector Review, vol. 9, no. 1, 2003. Details
- Summers, Anne, 'A Home from Home: Women's Philanthropic Work in the Nineteenth Century', in Burman, Sandra (ed.), Fit Work for Women, ANU Press, Canberra, 1979. Details
- Swain, Shurlee, 'The Victorian Charity Network in the 1890s', PhD thesis, University of Melbourne, 1977, 439 pp. Details
- Swain, Shurlee, 'Perhaps to Spite her Children: The Philanthropy of Elizabeth Austin', Australian Philanthropy, no. 30, Summer 1996. Details
T
- Taylor, John (ed.), Barbara and Charles Blackman Talk About Food, Rigby, Adelaide, 1979. Details
V
- Victorian Women's Trust, The Purple Sage Project, Melbourne, 2000. Details
- Victorian Women's Trust, Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Lives, Book to accompany exhibition, Melbourne, 2001, 140 pp. Details
- Victorian Women's Trust, Our Water Mark: Australians Making a Difference in Water Reform, Melbourne, 2007, 168 pp. Details
W
- Ward, Elizabeth Jane, Out of Weakness Made Strong: Being a Record of the Life and Labours of Mrs E.J. Ward, with Photos., Christian World Printing House, Sydney, 1903. Details
- Windeyer, Victor, The Windeyers: Chapters of Family History, W.J.V. Windeyer, Sydney, 1992. Details