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Knowing Women:Origins of Women's Education in Nineteenth-century Australia

East Melbourne

  • 166 Clarendon Street
  • 206 Clarendon Street

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Acquisition number
1375
Catalogue number
embk0092
File name
BK0092
File location
Bookcase

This book discusses the origins of women's education in nineteenth-century Australia. It focuses on private schools as opposed to State or Church run schools. It includes a short chapter on Vieusseux Ladies' College, East Melbourne and a photo of the proprietors, Julie and Lewis Vieusseux. The College was at various addresses but 1860-65 it was at Valetta, 206 Clarendon Street and 1874-82 was at 166-68 Clarendon Street (demolished).

Item type
Book
Building name
Valetta
Subject address
206 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne
166 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne
Item size
24 cm
Number of pages
294
Author
Marjorie Theobald
Date of publication or creation
1996
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication place
Cambridge, New York, Melbourne
ISBN
0 521 42004 0
Copyright owner
Cambridge University Press
Year acquired
2016
Donor
Sylvia Black

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