Book brings Warrnambool women out of the shadows of history

By Peter Collins
January 14 2015 - 4:00am
After painstaking research, Warrnambool historian Elizabeth O’Callaghan has written a book about women in the growing township in the 19th and early 20th centuries, telling their stories after decades of near-anonymity. Picture: DAMIAN WHITE
After painstaking research, Warrnambool historian Elizabeth O’Callaghan has written a book about women in the growing township in the 19th and early 20th centuries, telling their stories after decades of near-anonymity. Picture: DAMIAN WHITE

FOR much of Warrnambool’s European settlement women were relegated to the background, rarely rating a public mention in the male-dominated society.

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