This book focuses on prominent Western Australian women from 1910 to 1939. In doing so the book discusses some of the social reforms that occurred and the charitable organisations active during this period. Chapters on Mary Farrelly, Ruth Johnson, E R Joyner, Lady Mitchell, Sally Carlton, A D Ross, Murial Chase, Nita Pannell, Rachel Lejeune, Ada Manning, Janet Nanson, Phylliss Dean, Kitty Gillies, Margaret Battye, Ellie Le Souef, Emily Pelloe, Mary Meares, Mary Richardson, Marie Beard, Mrs George Leake, Phoebe Holmes, Olive Prisk, Nora Crisp, Lady Lee Steere, Ruth Lefroy, Jessie Gover, Margaret Pitt Morrison, Jane Vincent, Enid Russell, Eve Moran, Ellen Flower, Nancy Burbidge, Alison Baird, Dorothy Hollingsworth, Malvina Wood, Eleanor Stang, Sister Robina Nicholson, Francis Cherry, Minnie Eggleston, Mabel Craven-Griffiths, Beryl Mary Fisher, Archie Burt, Minnie Hearman, Leslie Craig and Alice Williams. Foreword by Paul Hasluck. 269 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm. First Edition. #0220/0820/031121
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