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Rosa MacGinley
Mary Rose MacGinley pbvm (1931 – November 11, 2018) was an Australian Presentation sister, academic and historian of women religious. She was the co-founder of the Golding Centre for Women’s History, Theology and Spirituality at the Australian Catholic University. Early life and education Mary Rose MacGinley, better known as Rosa, was born in 1931, the third of four children. Her father James MacGinley fostered a love of history by reading to them as children. MacGinley completed a MA at the University of Queensland in 1972. The title of her thesis was ‘A Study of Irish Migration to, and Settlement in, Queensland, 1885-1912.’ She went on to complete a PhD at the same university in the School of History, Philosophy, Religion, and Classics in 1982. The title of her dissertation was Catholicism in Queensland, 1910–1935: A Social History. Career MacGinley felt drawn to the religious life and entered the Congregation of the Sisters of the Presentation at Longreach, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Mackenzie Golding
Annie Mackenzie Golding (27 October 1855 – 28 December 1934) was an Australian teacher, suffragette and feminist activist. Early life Annie Golding was born at Tambaroora, New South Wales. She was the eldest daughter of Ann (née Fraser) and her husband Joseph Golding. Her family was Catholic. Career Golding trained as a teacher and worked at Sallys Flat Provisional School, Bathurst. Golding was a member of the Committee of Public School Teacher's Institute, the Council of NSW Public School Teachers' Association 1897–1915. Activism With her sisters, Belle and Kate, Golding was a key member of the suffragette movement in New South Wales. Families provided a network of support in for people working in political and social reform movements at this time. She was a member Womanhood Suffrage League NSW and a founding member and president of the Women's Progressive Association. Golding was involved in the development of the Women's Workers Union. In 1934, she gave a sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Women Historians
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Presentation Sisters
The Presentation Sisters, officially the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, are a religious institute of Roman Catholic women founded in Cork, Ireland, by the Venerable Honora "Nano" Nagle in 1775. The Sisters of the congregation use the postnominal initials P.B.V.M. The Presentation Sisters' mission is to help the poor and needy around the world. Historically, the Sisters focused their energies on creating and staffing schools that would educate young people, especially young ladies. Most of these schools are still in operation and can be found across the globe. As of 2021, the Presentation Sisters are located in 24 countries: Antigua, Australia, Bolivia, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, Dominica, Ecuador, Guatemala, India, Ireland, Israel, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Slovakia, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. History Beginnings Honora (Nano) Nagle (1718–1784) was born in Ballygriffin, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 Deaths
This is a list of deaths of notable people, organised by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked here. 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 See also * Lists of deaths by day The following pages, corresponding to the Gregorian calendar, list the historical events, births, deaths, and holidays and observances of the specified day of the year: Footnotes See also * Leap year * List of calendars * List of non-standard ... * Deaths by year {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1931 Births
Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia. * January 25 – Mohandas Gandhi is again released from imprisonment in India. * January 27 – Pierre Laval forms a government in France. February * February 4 – Soviet leader Joseph Stalin gives a speech calling for rapid industrialization, arguing that only strong industrialized countries will win wars, while "weak" nations are "beaten". Stalin states: "We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us." The first five-year plan in the Soviet Union is intensified, for the industrialization and collectivization of agriculture. * February 10 †... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herston, Queensland
Herston is an inner suburb of the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Herston had a population of 2,215 people. Geography Herston is located by car north of the Brisbane GPO. The area of Herston includes the Herston Health Precinct on its eastern side. This includes the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, the Queensland Institute of Medical Research and the ''Herston Quarter'' which is a development site to replace the former Royal Children's Hospital which moved to another site in 2014. Herston also includes the Ballymore Stadium Rugby Union venue in the northwest and Victoria Park on the southern side of Herston Road. The park includes the Victoria Park golf course and the heritage-listed former Victoria Park Golf Clubhouse built in 1931. The rest of Herston is mostly a residential suburb, with some areas of light industry near the main roads. Many of Herston's residents are employed by the hospital or nearby at the Queensland University of Technology i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katharine Massam
Katharine Massam is a professor of church history based at the University of Divinity in Melbourne, Australia. Early life and education Katharine Therese Massam grew up in Perth, Western Australia. She completed a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) at the University of Western Australia and a Diploma of Education at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia, before going on to completing her Doctor of Philosophy, PhD at the University of Western Australia in 1992. Her doctoral thesis was later published as ''Sacred Threads: Catholic Spirituality in Australia''. Career Massam worked as a lecturer in the History Department at the University of Adelaide from 1996-2000 and was also a postdoctoral research fellow at the Australian National University from 1994-2000. She also taught at Murdoch University, the University of WA, Murdoch University and Edith Cowan University. In 2000 Massam took up a role at what is now Pilgrim Theological College in Melbourne (formerly United Facul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Dwyer
Catherine Winifred "Kate" Dwyer (; 13 June 1861 Р3 February 1949) was an Australian educator, suffragist, and labour activist. Life Dwyer n̩e Golding was born at Tambaroora, Wellington County, New South Wales to Joseph Golding (died 1890), a gold-miner from Galway, Ireland, and his Scottish wife, Ann (died 1906; n̩e Fraser). She was educated at Hill End Public School. In 1880 she began teaching at Tambaroora Public School, she taught at numerous public primary school in New South Wales until she married fellow school teacher Michael Dwyer in 1887. From 1894 they lived in Sydney where Kate became a member of the Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales, her sisters, Annie Mackenzie Golding, Annie and Belle were also members. She was a founder of the Women's Progressive Association in 1901, the organisation promoted the entry of women into legal professions and equal benefits for women following divorce. Interested in women's working conditions she also founded t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belle Golding
Isabella Theresa "Belle" Golding (25 November 1864 – 11 December 1940) was an Australian feminist, suffragist and labour activist. Belle Golding was born at Tambaroora, Wellington County, New South Wales to Joseph Golding (died 1890), a gold-miner from Galway, Ireland, and his Scottish wife, Ann (died 1906; née Fraser). In May 1900, Belle Golding became the first female inspector of public schools in Australia. She and her sisters, Annie Mackenzie Golding (1855–1934), and Mrs Kate Dwyer, joined the Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales in about 1893, before forming the Women's Progressive Association in 1904. Career Under the ''Early Closing Act of 1899'', Golding became Australia's first female inspector of public schools. Throughout her career as a public servant, Golding exercised her passion for improving the conditions of living for women, often documenting health and employment concerns unique to women. Later, when the Wage Arbitration Act passed, she was mad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Power
Kim E. Power is an Australian academic, feminist theologian and church historian, who was a co-founder of the Golding Centre for Women's History, Theology and Spirituality at the Australian Catholic University. Education Kim Power completed a BA at the University of Melbourne and a BTheol and MTheol at the Melbourne College of Divinity (now University of Divinity). She went on to complete a PhD at La Trobe University in the School of Archaeology and Historical Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Her master's thesis, completed in 1990 was titled, "Augustine's theology of women: influence and implications". This was later published as ''Veiled Desire: Augustine on Women'' in 1996. One reviewer of this book summarised Power's contribution, saying "Her service is to provide insight in a historically responsible way into how the Augustinian heritage still pervades Christian discussions of women." Power's doctoral thesis, completed in 1997, was titled, ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
