Bacon, Eva (1909 - 1994)

Eva Bacon settled in Australia after Hitler's invasion of Austria in 1938. Jim McIlroy, in his tribute to Eva in the Green Left Weekly, writes that "she continued her life-long struggle for peace, socialism and the emancipation of women in her new homeland through her activism in the Communist Party of Australia and a variety of of other progressive organisations."

Eva was a member of the Communist Party of Australia, the Union of Australian Women and the Women's Electoral Lobby. She was also a founding member of the International Womens' Day Committee. She was married to her husband Ted for almost 50 years and they had one daughter, Barbara.

(Source: http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/1994/155/155p5d.htm accessed 18/11/2002)

Colleague

• Wright, Mary (1903 - )

Founding member of

• International Women's Day, Australia (1928 - )

Membership

• Union of Australian Women (1950 - )
• Women's Electoral Lobby (1972 - )

Online Resources

• Fryer Library and Department of Special Collections, University of Queensland, 'UQFL 241 - E.A. and E. Bacon collection', in The University of Queensland Cybrary, The University of Queensland, 2004, http://www.library.uq.edu.au/fryer/ms/uqfl241.doc. [ Details... ]
• McIlroy, Jim, 'Eva Bacon 1909-1994', in Green Left Weekly Home Page, http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/1994/155/155p5d.htm. [ Details... ]