Jessie Street: A Revised AutobiographyFederation Press, 2004 - 246 páginas Jessie Street was a key figure in Australian political life for over 50 years. She was the only Australian woman delegate at the founding of the United Nations in 1945; the initiator of the 1967 "Aboriginal" amendment of the Australian Constitution; the colleague of Pablo Picasso on the World Peace Council Executive; and a controversial promoter of the Soviet Union during the Cold War, known as "Red Jessie" to a generation of Australians. She led an extraordinary, vivid life. Her autobiography, written with candour and humour, is a guidebook to the 20th century. From Jessie's early life in the Australian bush, readers join suffragette marches in London; hear civil rights singers in the jazz clubs of New York; visit occupied Egypt, imperial India, outback Australia, Stalin's Moscow; witness the Anschluss and Sudetenland crises in Europe in 1938; and see the destroyed cities of London, Berlin, Leningrad, and Hiroshima after the Second World War. Her life was one dedicated to peace and justice. The daughter-in-law, wife and mother of three Chief Justices, she met and worked with extraordinary figures such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Nancy Astor, Margaret Sanger, Jawaharal Nehru and many others. Her autobiography, first published in 1966, is now reissued, corrected and edited, a sparkling, powerful, bright book that truly reflects Jessie Street's energy, charm and practical humanitarianism. |
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... Party her home electorate of Went- worth , a conservative stronghold . A key player in the establishment of the UN Commission on the Status of Women , Jessie Street was Australia's delegate in 1947 and 1948 , her last government ...
... Party her home electorate of Went- worth , a conservative stronghold . A key player in the establishment of the UN Commission on the Status of Women , Jessie Street was Australia's delegate in 1947 and 1948 , her last government ...
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... party . This was an eagerly awaited event and we were all excitedly planning what we would be . I was looking forward to it immensely , having decided to go as some sort of animal . But when my parents returned for the occasion , a ...
... party . This was an eagerly awaited event and we were all excitedly planning what we would be . I was looking forward to it immensely , having decided to go as some sort of animal . But when my parents returned for the occasion , a ...
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... party , and I was allowed to stay up for dinner with the adults in the dining saloon . My mother told me later she searched everywhere when it was time for me to go to bed , becoming increasingly worried . Finally she found me - seated ...
... party , and I was allowed to stay up for dinner with the adults in the dining saloon . My mother told me later she searched everywhere when it was time for me to go to bed , becoming increasingly worried . Finally she found me - seated ...
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... party was to be held there . Mother supervised my ward- robe of evening and party dresses made by dressmakers , and friends joined in to help in shopping for all the necessary accessories . To my great surprise , I really enjoyed ...
... party was to be held there . Mother supervised my ward- robe of evening and party dresses made by dressmakers , and friends joined in to help in shopping for all the necessary accessories . To my great surprise , I really enjoyed ...
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... party hat . I will never forget the face of the driver when I emerged , elegantly attired in coat , skirt and hat . He lifted the little trapdoor on the roof and peered inside to make sure there was no one else there , while I boarded ...
... party hat . I will never forget the face of the driver when I emerged , elegantly attired in coat , skirt and hat . He lifted the little trapdoor on the roof and peered inside to make sure there was no one else there , while I boarded ...
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Jessie Lillingston in New York 1915 | 47 |
Jessie Street at home 1943 | 135 |
Jessie Street with team examining Australian sheepskins 1943 | 146 |
Jessie Street United Associations of Women colleagues 1943 | 153 |
Our great ally A Pacific war A bid for Parliament | 154 |
Delegates to the Womans Charter Conference Sydney 1943 | 171 |
Australian delegates to the UN founding conference San Francisco 1945 | 179 |
Jessie Street with Dr Bertha Lutz San Francisco 1945 | 186 |
Waltzing Matilda | 187 |
International women Votes for women At Waverley House | 49 |
Jessie Kenneth Street with children Belinda Philippa and Roger 1924 | 61 |
Seeing the World | 71 |
Charles Lillingston and Jessie Street Switzerland 1930 | 76 |
Laurence Street and Nurse Musgrave about 1935 | 83 |
The Palais des Nations Geneva 1930 | 97 |
Voyaging Depression At home At work Nurses | 100 |
Jessie Street 1938 | 117 |
Friends and Enemies | 133 |
Jessie Street in the USSR 1945 | 205 |
Vijay Lakshmi Pandit Jessie Street New York 1945 | 215 |
Seeing the States London lights Berlin bereaved | 217 |
Officials at the World Peace Council Conference in East Berlin 1952 | 222 |
Jessie Street in China in 1958 | 228 |
Jessie Street in Australias outback 1957 | 234 |
Index | 239 |
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