Maybanke Anderson - further papers, ca. 1852-1902

MLMSS 4539 ADD-ON 2004/Box 1X
MIN 519

fonds

ca. 1852-1902

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs

66303

0.05 metres of textual material, photographs and drawings (1 outsize box)
1 photograph - 6.5 x 5.0 cm - ambrotype

Born in England, Maybanke Anderson arrived in Sydney in 1855 with her parents and brothers. She was educated as a teacher and in 1884 began a school, Maybanke College, which quickly established a reputation for its modern teaching methods and the success of its pupils in examinations. In 1891 she helped found the Womanhood Suffrage League of NSW. She was also a member of the Women's Literary Society and founder of the Australasian Home Reading Union. In 1894 she began publishing her own fortnightly newspaper Women's Voice. In 1898 she sold Maybanke College and a year later married Francis Anderson, professor of philosophy at Sydney University. Increasingly she devoted her time to university activities and writing pamphlets and articles for the press. She also produced several local histories and published Mother lore, a handbook on the education of young children.

Reference:
Library correspondence file

Contents include:
Copy of Australian songs for Australian children by Maybanke Anderson
Photograph of Maybanke Selfe, ca. 1852, probably taken by Arthur Brown
Maybanke and Edmund Wolstenholme, ca. 1870
Photograph of Arthur Wolstenholme
Photograph of Susannah Norman Smith nee Brown, great grandmother of Maybanke Anderson
Photograph of Norman Selfe and E. K. Wolstenholme on velocipede designed and constructed by Selfe
Photograph of wedding party of Harry Wolstenholme and Edith Doust, 8 January 1902
Various photographs of Maybanke Anderson
Drawing of Maybanke College
Biography of Henry Selfe, ca. 1750
Postcard of 'Maybanke', Bay View, Pittwater'

Access via appointment - Applies to MIN 519

Copyright status:: In copyright - applies to manuscript material
Research & study copies allowed: Author has been deceased for more than 50 years
Out of copyright: Applies to photographs taken before 1955
Out of copyright: Applies to artistic works where the creator died before 1955
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