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Helen M Schutt Trust
- Helen Macpherson Schutt; Helen M Schutt Trust. Details
National Archives of Australia, Melbourne Office
- Brookes, Mabel (Mrs) - correspondence regarding service with Red Cross, 6 March 1931 - 1 April 1931, 2001/00494397; Brookes, Mabel Balcombe (1890 - 1975); National Archives of Australia, Melbourne Office. Details
National Archives of Australia, National Office
- Decorations & Awards - Dame Mabel Balcombe Brookes, 1959 - 1960, A1838/265; National Archives of Australia, National Office. Details
National Archives of Australia, Sydney Office
- [ABC publicity photos] Dame Mabel Brookes, c. 1955, SP1011/1; National Archives of Australia, Sydney Office. Details
National Library of Australia
- Interview with Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, 20 February 1995, ORAL TRC 3194; Farquharson, John; National Library of Australia. Details
- Letter from Nesta Griffiths, 1942 - 1977, MS 4829, folders 46-47 (correspondence 1942-1977); Papers of Douglas Stewart; Griffiths, Glynde Nesta (1889 - 1968); National Library of Australia. Details
- Milestones in Australian Medicine: Dr. Lucy Edith Gullett, 1971, Record ID 2987587; National Library of Australia. Details
- Order of Service for the Dedication of the Dame Eadith Walker, D.B.E., Memorial Fence, Gates and Floodlights by The Most Reverend Howard West Kilvington Mowll, D.D., 20 September 1941; National Library of Australia. Details
National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection
- Papers of Herbert and Ivy Brookes, 1869 - 1970, MS 1924; Papers of Herbert Brooks; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details
Private Hands (contact Australian Women's Archive Project)
- 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 New South Wales
- Dame Eadith Walker with wreath, possibly Anzac Day, Sydney, c. 1920, At Work and Play - 05516; O.R. Miller, Sydney; State Library of New South Wales. Details
State Library of Victoria
- The Devil's River Country: Selections from the History of the Mansfield District by George Morris, MS 10606, Box 1488/5; Morris, George; State Library of Victoria. Details
- Women in Philanthropy (WIP) - papers, 1995 - 1998, MS 13370, Box 76; Stegley Foundation Archives; State Library of Victoria. Details
State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection
- Lyceum Club (Melbourne) Records, 1912 - 1970, MS 11270; State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection. Details
- Papers of Ola Cohn, MS 8506; Cohn, Carola (Ola) (1892 - 1964); State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection. Details
The University of Melbourne Archives
- Papers of Dr Una B. Porter, 1881 - 1996, Accession #97/2; Porter, Una Beatrice (1900 - 1996), Porter, Una Beatrice (1900 - 1996); The University of Melbourne Archives. Details
Bibliographical Resources
A
- 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, 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
H
- 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