Thursday, 18 March 2010
The lives of some of Australia’s brave women pioneers will be under the spotlight at UWA next week when visiting author Susanna de Vries presents a free public lecture based on her recent book Females on the Fatal Shore.
Females on the Fatal Shore documents the story of the lives of 12 significant women who sailed to the Australian colonies in its founding years.
The author will also speak about two important West Australian women described in her book Heroic Australian Women .
De Vries is an international author and former lecturer at the Queensland University of Technology. Her fourteen books have won her literary awards in Ireland and Britain, an Order of Australia for services to literature and a Winston Churchill Fellowship.
She has twice been short-listed for the Queensland Premier's Non-Fiction awards. Her books Great Australian Women and Blue Ribbons , Bitter Bread: the life of Joice Loch and Australia's Most Decorated Woman have become Australian classics.
WHAT: Lecture, Females on the Fatal Shore
WHEN: 6.00pm, Wednesday, 24 March 2010
WHERE: Webb Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor, Geography Building, UWA
The lecture is free and open to the public, no RSVP required.
Media references
Audrey Barton
(IAS) (+61 8) 6488 4797
Janine MacDonald
(UWA Public Affairs) (+61 8) 6488 5563 / (+61 4) 32 637 716
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