Clarke, Patricia (1926 - )

• Clarke, Mary Patricia (a.k.a.)

Chronology

1951 - 1961	With the News and Information Bureau, Melbourne, Journalist Grade D, Canberra, Journalist Grade C
1963 - 1968	Casual Journalist Grade B with ABC in Canberra
1968 - 1974	Journalist (Grade A) /Editor of weekly business newsletters with M Newton publications
1974 - 1979	Editor of publications (Journalist Grade A1) with the National Capital Development Commission
1985	New South Wales Premier's Department Social History grant
1987 -	Councillor with the Canberra & District Historical Society
1987	Australia Council, Literature Board Project Grant
1989 -	Member of the Commonwealth Working Party for the Australian Dictionary of Biography
1989	Australia Council, Literature Broad Project Grant
1993 -	Committee Member of the Centre for Australian Cultural Studies (ACT)
1993	Harold White Fellow at the National Library of Australia
1995	One-year Fellowship from the Literature Board at the Australia Council
1995	Joint winner of the Society of Women Writers non-fiction award (for Tasma
1995 - 1997	Vice-president of the Canberra & District Historical Society
1995 - 2001	Founding Honorary Secretary of the Independent Scholars Association of Australia (ISAA)
1997 - 1999	President of the Canberra & District Historical Society
1997 - 1999	Member of the National Library of Australia's Friends Committee
1998	Member of the National Scholarly Communications Forum (representing Australian Society of Authors)
1999	Vice-president of the National Library of Australia's Friends Committee
2000 - 2002	Committee Member at Manning Clark House
2001 - 2002	Two-year Fellowship from the Literature Board at the Australia Council
11 June 2001	Awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) For service to the promotion of Australian history through research and writing, to the study of Australian women writers of the 19th Century, and to the Canberra and District Historical Society
2002	Awarded a Fellow from the Federation of Australian Historical Societies

Books

• Clarke, Patricia, The governesses: letters from the colonies 1862-1882, Hutchinson, Melbourne, 1985, 236 pp. [ Details... ]

Journal Articles

• Clarke, Patricia, 'Nettie Palmer : search for an aesthetic', Australian Historical Studies, no. 115, 2000, pp. 376-377. [ Details... ]

Newspaper Articles

• Clarke, Patricia, 'Fighter for women's rights', Canberra Times, Panorama, 12 May 2001, p. 16. [ Details... ]
• Clarke, Patricia, 'Fascinating letters inspire novel', Canberra Times, Panorama, 10 February 2001, p. 16. [ Details... ]
• Clarke, Patricia, '"Comfort women" of the colonies', Canberra Times, Panorama, 7 March 2001, p. 18. [ Details... ]
• Clarke, Patricia, 'Women who shaped an era', Canberra Times, Panorama, 8 September 2001, p. 17. [ Details... ]
• Clarke, Patricia, 'Those perfect English ladies', Canberra Times, Panorama, 28 July 2001, p. 18. [ Details... ]
• Clarke, Patricia, 'Rich addition to area history', Canberra Times, Panorama, 9 March 2002, p. 20. [ Details... ]

See also

• Bryant, John, 'The Federation decade', Canberra Times, Panorama, 4 August 2001, p. 16. [ Details... ]
• Evans, Julie, 'Rosa! Rosa! A Life of Rosa Praed, Novelist and Spiritualist', Lilith, no. 10, 2001, pp. 187-190. [ Details... ]
• Ferres, Kay, 'Rosa! Rosa! A Life of Rosa Praed, Novelist and Spiritualist', Australian Historical Studies, vol. 33, no. 118, 2002, pp. 200-201. [ Details... ]
• Kingston, Beverly, 'Rosa! Rosa! : a life of Rosa Pread, novelist and spiritualist', Australian Feminist Studies, vol. 15, no. 32, 2000, pp. 295-296. [ Details... ]