You Daughters Of Freedom

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For the ten years from 1902, when Australia's suffrage campaigners won the vote for white women, the world looked to this trailblazing young democracy for inspiration.

Clare Wright's epic new history tells the story of that victory - and of Australia's role in the subsequent international struggle - through the eyes of five remarkable players- the redoubtable Vida Goldstein, the flamboyant Nellie Martel, indomitable Dora Montefiore, daring Muriel Matters, and artist Dora Meeson Coates, who painted the controversial Australian banner carried in the British suffragettes' monster marches of 1908 and 1911.

Clare Wright's Stella Prize-winning The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka retold one of Australia's foundation stories from a fresh new perspective. With You Daughters of Freedom she brings to life a time when Australian democracy was the envy of the world - and the standard bearer for progress in a shining new century.

By:   Clare Wright
Imprint:   Text Publishing Company
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 135mm, 
ISBN:   9781922268181
ISBN 10:   1922268186
Pages:   576
Publication Date:   September 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

`Fresh, compelling and devoid of dry or, worse, obfuscating academese.' * Whispering Gums * `Women's suffrage remains one of young Australia's finest moments and Wright does its participants proud.' * Corrie Perkin * 'Another book to re-invigorate a near-forgotten chapter of history.' * Spectator * `An exciting history of a trailblazing campaign.' * Good Weekend * `A fascinating book that also raises interesting questions about our national culture.' * Canberra Weekly * `When I finish, I want to...hold the book aloft and tell every person I know to read it.' * Australian Book Review * `Sizzling.' * Caroline Overington * `A celebration of leadership, inspiration, education and sheer individual cheek.' * Sydney Morning Herald * `Fascinating.' * 3RRR * `I urge you to read it; share it with your family, friend and colleagues; make sure your local library has multiple copies; ditto the local book store and newsagent; put it on the list of you reading group.' -- Diane Bell * Honest History * `Her story of Australian suffragists winning the vote and then running for parliament in 1903 should be required reading in this time of angst over the `women problem' in the federal Liberal Party.' * Weekend Australian Magazine * `You Daughters of Freedom relates with sparkle and wit the largely untold story of the trailblazing women who not only dragged recalcitrant male leaders into the new century and won the right to vote but also were at the forefront of the struggle for women's enfranchisement internationally.' * Inside Story * `A rare achievement. Grand, bold and brilliantly written.' * Mark McKenna * `The essential story of our greatest reformers, and one of our proudest achievements as a nation.' * George Megalogenis * `One of the country's most accomplished story-tellers relates Australian women's fight for the vote in all of its passion, intensity and drama.' * Frank Bongiorno, Professor of History, ANU * `This book will be brilliant.' -- Annabel Crabb * Chat 10 Looks 3 * `A thrilling tale, superbly told, of brave Australian women with a passion for politics.' * Judith Brett * `Clare Wright's You Daughters of Freedom is the uplifting story of a time Australia led the world in including women in our democratic project. It is a reminder of our proud legacy and a clarion call for who we can be.' * Penny Wong * `You Daughters of Freedom brings some forgotten women into the public discourse again, and we are all the richer for it.' * Australian *

• Short-listed for Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2019 (Australia)