September lecture: Choice or plan B?
Sun, 17 Sept
|Bowen Hills
Was it a choice or plan B? Join us to hear about women teachers and their schools in early Brisbane
Time & Location
17 Sept 2023, 1:40 pm – 4:00 pm
Bowen Hills, 35 Jordan Terrace, Bowen Hills QLD 4006, Australia
About the event
Join QWHA member and author Sharyn Merkley as she discusses stories about Brisbane's early female teachers uncovered in the QWHA Archives. Expected to marry well and settle down to home and family life, these women took a different path. Highly educated, many of them were also accomplished musicians, singers and dancers. Teaching and running their own schools and academies gave them independence and respect. Some were widows and others spinsters. Among the many stories hidden on scraps of paper, long treasured programs and reminiscences, are those of three remarkable women who, through unexpected circumstances, chose a different path.
Date: 17 September 2023
Time: 1.40 pm for 2 pm start
Cost: $10 members and $15 non-members (includes afternoon tea)
About the lecturer:
Sharyn Merkley, a Brisbane resident from birth, is a family historian with a life-long passion for history. As well as being involved in the archives at Miegunyah, Sharyn has…
Tickets
Member ticket
This ticket includes afternoon tea
$10.00
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This ticket includes afternoon tea
$15.00
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