This list is limited to those sources most frequently consulted in the writing of this book. A great deal of supplementary material was accessed from newspapers and articles available via Trove, the National Library of Australia’s magnificent online resource, as well as from copies of newspapers on microfiche in the state libraries of New South Wales and Victoria.
Vida Goldstein, personal papers
Vida’s papers are in the Women’s Library, London School of Economics, London (formerly known as the Millicent Fawcett Library). They include diaries, books of newspaper cuttings, autograph books, photographs, letters, published and unpublished articles and other miscellaneous material. Much of this material is also available at the State Library of Victoria and the National Library of Australia.
Work by Vida herself
‘To America and Back’, 1903, SLV MS7865
Diary 1908, Women’s Library, London.
‘Should women enter parliament?’, Review of Reviews, 20 August 1903
‘The Australian woman in politics’, Review of Reviews, 20 January 1904
‘Women can help Australia more’, Melbourne Herald, 11 January 1930
Copies of Vida’s newspapers, The Australian Women’s Sphere and The Woman Voter, are both available on microfiche from the State Library of Victoria and the State Library of New South Wales
Unpublished materials
Franklin, Miles, Franklin Papers, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales.
Henderson, Leslie, Henderson Papers, National Library of Australia.
Rischbieth, Bessie, Rischbieth Papers, National Library of Australia.
Scott, Rose, Scott Papers, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales.
Books
Archer, Robin (ed.), et al, The Conscription Conflict and the Great War, Monash University Publishing, Melbourne, 2016.
Beard, Mary, Women and Power: A Manifesto, Profile Books, 2016.
Bomford, Janette M., That Dangerous and Persuasive Woman Vida Goldstein, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1993.
Brett, Judith, The Enigmatic Mr Deakin, The Text Publishing Company, Melbourne, 2017.
——From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage, The Text Publishing Company, Melbourne, 2019.
Brunton, Paul (ed.), The Diaries of Miles Franklin, Allen & Unwin in association with the State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, 2004.
Carlyon, Les, The Great War, Pan Macmillan Australia, Sydney, 2006.
Cochrane, Peter, Best We Forget, The Text Publishing Company, Melbourne, 2018.
Eddy, Mary Baker, Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures, 1875, available online.
Fitzpatrick, Kathleen, PLC Melbourne: The First Century 1875–1975, Presbyterian Ladies’ College, Melbourne, 1975.
Fraser, Caroline, God’s Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church, Henry Holt & Co, New York, 1999.
Henderson, Leslie M., The Goldstein Story, privately published, Melbourne, 1973.
Hobsbawm, Eric, The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914–1991, Abacus Books, 1994.
Hutchinson, Norman C., Staunch and True: Christian Science in Victorian Australia, self-published, 2005.
Kent, Jacqueline, The Making of Julia Gillard, Penguin Group Australia, Melbourne, 2014.
——Take Your Best Shot: The Prime Ministership of Julia Gillard, Penguin Group Australia, Melbourne, 2013.
Kingston, Beverley, The World Moves Slowly, Cassell Australia, Sydney, 1978.
Lake, Meredith, The Bible in Australia: A Cultural History, NewSouth Publishing, Sydney, 2018.
Oldfield, Audrey, Woman Suffrage in Australia: A Gift or a Struggle?, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992.
Rasmussen, Carolyn, The Blackburns: Private Lives, Public Ambition, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2019.
Ed. Roe, Jill, My Congenials, Miles Franklin & Friends in Letters, Collins/Angus & Robertson Publishers, Sydney, 1993.
Wright, Clare, You Daughters of Freedom, The Text Publishing Company, Melbourne, 2019.