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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... rounds of corned beef , and preparing all the food for a grand supper . A bullock would be killed and there were heavy ... round the tree . Everyone got something . Father and Mother would call out the names and my brother and I , helped ...
... rounds of corned beef , and preparing all the food for a grand supper . A bullock would be killed and there were heavy ... round the tree . Everyone got something . Father and Mother would call out the names and my brother and I , helped ...
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... round that I came from Australia and I was nicknamed ' the Bushranger ' ( a nickname that at least showed a greater knowledge of geography than at my brother's school , where he was called ' Zulu ' because he was born in India ) . Miss ...
... round that I came from Australia and I was nicknamed ' the Bushranger ' ( a nickname that at least showed a greater knowledge of geography than at my brother's school , where he was called ' Zulu ' because he was born in India ) . Miss ...
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... round the grounds to watch the games . Parts of the grounds were sloping , and though the playing fields had been levelled off , it was hard going on the tricycle up the paths . There were always many volunteers to push Miss Dove and ...
... round the grounds to watch the games . Parts of the grounds were sloping , and though the playing fields had been levelled off , it was hard going on the tricycle up the paths . There were always many volunteers to push Miss Dove and ...
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... round and taught me some strokes . She also advised my parents to send me to a school in the south of France for the next Winter . To my great delight my parents decided to return to Australia and take me with them . I have never ...
... round and taught me some strokes . She also advised my parents to send me to a school in the south of France for the next Winter . To my great delight my parents decided to return to Australia and take me with them . I have never ...
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... round the camp in clouds of dust , their bellowing audible miles away . A few stockmen would have to stay with the cattle to keep them together , while everyone else prepared lunch at the nearby waterhole . Some of us would take all the ...
... round the camp in clouds of dust , their bellowing audible miles away . A few stockmen would have to stay with the cattle to keep them together , while everyone else prepared lunch at the nearby waterhole . Some of us would take all the ...
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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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