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Iris de Freitas Brazao : legal luminary and trailblazer : Caribbean, Canada, Wales, England, 1896-1989 / Joanne Collins-Gonsalves; foreword by the Hon. Madam Justice Roxane George SC, CCH ; introduction by Bridget Brereton.
Van Pelt Library KHN304.D44 C65 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Collins-Gonsalves, Joanne, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- De Freitas Brazao, Iris.
- Lawyers--Guyana--Biography.
- Lawyers.
- Lawyers--Caribbean, English-speaking--Biography.
- Women lawyers--Guyana--Biography.
- Women lawyers.
- Women lawyers--Caribbean, English-speaking--Biography.
- Women--Guyana--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Women--Caribbean, English-speaking--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xxx, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : Atlantic Academic Publishing Inc., 2023.
- Notes:
- "Iris de Freitas Brazao (1896-1989) was a pioneering lawyer and public servant fron Guyana, one of the British Caribbean colonies before the 1960s. She was the first Caribbean-born woman to be called to the English Bar, and the first woman to be called to the Bar in the colonial Caribbean (Barbados and the then British Guiana)" -- Introduction, page xxvii.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781738083718
- 1738083713
- OCLC:
- 1450627690
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