Lives obscurely great : historical essays on women of New South Wales / editors, Patricia Thompson, Susan Yorke.

Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword / Dame Alexandra Hasluck -- Mary Collicott, the convict's well-born wife / Beverley Earnshaw -- By bread alone --Jane Watsford, currency lass / Chris Rapp -- Women of Subiaco / Joyce Cole -- George Clarke and the Kamilaroi tribe / Suzanne Woolcott -- Elizabeth Hawkin's trip, 1822 / Stella Sammon -- Pioneer of Cook's River, Hannah Laycock of King's Grove Farm / Sheila Tearle -- Sarah Claydon, foster-mother to Aboriginal children / Marjorie Kendall -- The pioneer lady of Marrickville / R. L. Sowden

Australia's early needlewomen / Lorna Ollif -- Ann Thorn's land grant, a civil affair with a market garden / Valmai Phillips -- Melinda Kendall, mother of Henry Kendall, poet / Marjorie Kendall -- Three women of Wyong, the Aborigine,the pioneer and the outcast / Valerie Thompson -- Granny will clean your boots / Gwen Dundon -- German women and their families in New South Wales / Jean Macdonald -- From the Lindsay papers / Hilaire and Phil Lindsay -- Elizabeth Mitchell, mother of Albury / Jean Macdonald

Lucy Osburn of Sydney Hospital / Lilian James -- Watch the dicky bird / Gwen Dundon -- Mary Ann Hoschke, pioneer of Upper Orara Valley / Patricia Ryan -- The legs have it / Jean Thompson -- Letter to an anxious sister / Maude Gray Bowyer-Smith -- In pursuit of an education at Cumnock / Joan Marriott -- The matriarch of Foster / Hazel de Berg and Anne Boyd -- My truly godly wife / E. Cook Pritchard

Doris Dawson and the Industrial Blind School / Valerie Thompson -- Some reflections on the independence of middle-class girls and women in New South Wales, 1880-1910 / Viva Gallego -- Growing up with a bang / Maria Capewell -- Dame Alice Berry from Cobar / Yvonne McBurney -- Some distinguished Jewish women of New South Wales / Lysbeth Cohen -- The passing of Mammy Ross / Gwen Dundon