The Blackburns : private lives, public ambition

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Label

The Blackburns : private lives, public ambition

Title remainder

private lives, public ambition

Statement of responsibility

Carolyn Rasmussen

Creator

• trueRasmussen, Carolyn

Author

• trueRasmussen, Carolyn

Subject

• Blackburn, Doris Amelia, 1889-1970
• Blackburn, Maurice, 1880-1944
• trueCivil rights -- Australia
• trueCivil rights workers
• Civil rights workers -- Victoria -- Biography
• trueHusband and wife
• Lawyers -- Victoria -- Biography
• trueAustralia -- Politics and government -- 20th century
• truePoliticians -- Biography
• Politicians -- Victoria -- Biography
• trueSocial change -- Law and legislation -- Australia
• trueSocial change -- Political aspects -- Australia
• trueVictoria
• truePoliticians -- Australia -- Biography
• trueAustralian

Genre

• trueBiography

Language

eng

Summary

When socialist barrister and aspiring member of parliament Maurice Blackburn met Doris Hordern, ardent feminist and campaign secretary to Vida Goldstein, neither had marriage in their imagined futures. But they fell in love-with each other as much as with their individual aspirations to change the world for the better. Theirs would be an exacting partnership as they held one another to the highest ideals. They worked as elected members of parliaments and community activists, influencing conscription laws, benefits for working men and women, atomic bomb tests, civil rights and Indigenous recognition. Together, they shook Australia

Biography type

collective biography

Cataloging source

YDX

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits
• facsimiles

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography