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A white hot flame : Mary Montgomerie Bennett - author, educator, activist for Indigenous justice / Sue Taffe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taffe, Sue, 1945- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christison family.
- Bennett, M. M. (Mary Montgomerie), 1881-1961.
- Bennett, M. M.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 430 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Clayton, Victoria : Monash University Publishing, [2018]
- Summary:
- Mary Montgomerie Bennett (18811961) is an important but under-recognised figure in Australian history. A member of a successful squatting family, she became a voice for reform at a time when Aboriginal Australians had their citizens' rights curtailed by repressive state laws.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Front matter
- Title page
- Copyright and imprint information
- Contents
- List of maps
- Opening quotes
- Introduction
- Parents and Childhood
- 1. Parents: A pioneer Scots pastoralist and a London artist
- 2. Mimi's childhood: 'Queensland, our home'?
- Author to Activist
- 3. Mimi Christison: Art student and young English lady
- 4. Christison of Lammermoor: Romance burdened by reality
- 5. M. M. Bennett: Emerging activist
- The Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia
- 6. Learning about Western Australia: 'My eyes open and my mouth shut'
- 7. Mrs Bennett, teacher: Mount Margaret Mission
- 8. Commissioner Moseley and Chief Protector Neville
- 9. Disillusionment
- Belonging, Identity, Commitment
- 10. Dora and Gladys: Wartime London and a return to Australia
- 11. Families: Peter Pontara and Human Rights for Aborigines
- 12. The Wongatha people of Kalgoorlie
- 13. Final days
- Epilogue
- Image block
- Maps
- Map 1: Southern New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania
- Map 2: Queensland and northern New South Wales
- Map 3: England and southern Scotland
- Map 4: Central and South Australia
- Map 5: South-west and west coast of Western Australia
- Map 6: Eastern goldfields of Western Australia
- End matter
- Acknowledgments
- Further reading
- Index
- Back cover.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-925523-19-5
- OCLC:
- 1027961470
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