TY - BOOK AU - Thornley,Jeni ED - Australian Film Commission. TI - Maidens PY - 1987/// CY - South Melbourne PB - Australian Film Institute KW - Thornley, Jeni, KW - Women KW - Australia KW - Biography KW - Family KW - History KW - Social conditions KW - Social life and customs N1 - Recorded off-air 13 October 1988; This is a feature film for the episode of "A Woman's word" of 13 October 1988, which is first on the videocassette; There is an hour of uncatalogued material between the two programmes; "Produced with the assistance of the Creative Development Branch of the Australian Film Commission 1975-1978"; Producer, director, Jenny Thornley; sound, Martha Ansara; music, Theresa Jack, Aurora Bell, Annie Bickford, Gill Leahy, Jen Short N2 - A compilation documentary of the reflections of filmmaker Jeni Thornley on four generations of her maternal family from the turn of the century to the present. The film makes use of old photographs, letters, slides, home movies, and excerpts from feminist films to record a personal history and aid the process of self examination ER -