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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... thought was how to overcome these terrible limits on every activity I cared about . A dreadful realisation grew as it became apparent that I would be subject to these irksome restrictions for the rest of my life ! How could I escape ...
... thought was how to overcome these terrible limits on every activity I cared about . A dreadful realisation grew as it became apparent that I would be subject to these irksome restrictions for the rest of my life ! How could I escape ...
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... thought this sounded perfect for me and when our shipboard friend agreed to nominate me , I had reluctantly to agree . Wycombe Abbey And so when the school year began in September 1903 , there was I on the platform at Paddington Railway ...
... thought this sounded perfect for me and when our shipboard friend agreed to nominate me , I had reluctantly to agree . Wycombe Abbey And so when the school year began in September 1903 , there was I on the platform at Paddington Railway ...
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... thought I was not being taught to behave like a lady . To my distress my parents told me they had decided to take me away . After a great effort , I screwed up enough courage to go to Miss Dove's office , but once there , I just sat on ...
... thought I was not being taught to behave like a lady . To my distress my parents told me they had decided to take me away . After a great effort , I screwed up enough courage to go to Miss Dove's office , but once there , I just sat on ...
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... thought this a wonderful idea , and decided to knit a vest on the same system . I was most annoyed when it came out practically as broad as it was long , and I had to unravel it , and set to work to do it all over again , this time ...
... thought this a wonderful idea , and decided to knit a vest on the same system . I was most annoyed when it came out practically as broad as it was long , and I had to unravel it , and set to work to do it all over again , this time ...
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... thought I was nearly ready for the matriculation examination , and my parents arranged coaching in Mathematics and Latin in Sydney . I passed the exam , with my governess just as pleased as I was , though this meant her job was done ...
... thought I was nearly ready for the matriculation examination , and my parents arranged coaching in Mathematics and Latin in Sydney . I passed the exam , with my governess just as pleased as I was , though this meant her job was done ...
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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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