Jean Beadle: A Life of Labor Activism

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The first-ever biography of Jean Beadle (1867-1942) - a tireless advocate for women's and children's rights. Mrs Beadle was the founder of Labor Women's Organisations in Fremantle and the Eastern Goldfields and as one of Western Australia's first female Justices of the Peace, a voluntary Children's Court Magistrate and a keen writer and orator, played a prominent role in State politics throughout the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Historian Bobbie Oliver surveys the life and legacy of one of Australia's great unsung civic heroines, revealing a feisty and courageous proto-feminist.