The biography of a Macquarie Street icon

The biography of a Macquarie Street icon [sound recording] / Jan Roberts. - 1 sound disc (CD) (ca. 40 min): digital; 4 3/4 in. - Jessie Street National Women's Library Lunch Hour Talks .

Title on cover: JSNWL Lunch time talk Jan Roberts 15/4/2004 Article on Jan Robert's address published in "Jessie Street National Women's Library Newsletter" vol. 15 No. 2 May 2004.

Jan Robert's address based on her book "The Astor" published in 2003 by Ruskin Rowe Press, Sydney. ISBN 0958709548 Jan Robert's address based on her book "The Astor" published in 2003 by Ruskin Rowe Press, Sydney. ISBN 0958709548

Speaker: Jan Roberts.

Dr Jan Roberts, historian and small publisher, has spent years researching and writing women's history. She talks about her latest publication, "The Astor", Australia's first residential cooperative building. Ruby Rich, Portia Geach and Mary Alice Evatt are three of the many interesting women whose Astor stories are in the book. JSNWL Lunch Hour talk held in the Lady Mayoress' Rooms, Town Hall, George Street, Sydney.


Roberts, Jan, 1941 (April 7)-


Astor (Apartment house : Sydney, N.S.W.)


Jessie Street National Women's Library Lunch Hour Talk 15 April 2004.


Apartment houses--History--New South Wales--Sydney--20th century.


Sydney (N.S.W.)--Buildings, structures, etc.--History

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