Jan Bowen - The Fabulous Fifties, oral history interviews with nine Australian women in their fifties

MLOH 255

fonds

5 July-28 October 1994

Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories

412685

Digitised

9 audiocassettes (8 hr., 31 min.) - 10 × 7 cm, 4 mm tape

Some of the women interviewed are well known and have achieved much in the public arena. Some are unknown outside their own circle of family and friends. Some, like Eve Mahlab, Wendy McCarthy and Quentin Bryce combined a career with family obligations from the very first. Some, like Jeannette McHugh and Helen Leonard fulfilled a traditional role for most of their adult life and only moved out of that role later. Some, like Anne Ferguson, pursued a career, but later had the freedom to follow their own creativity. Some, like Sara Henderson and Kendra Sundquist, are energetically determined to achieve as much as they can after many years of suppressing their own talents and ambitions. Some, like Nene King, have opted out of super-achievement because they consider the cost to personal life too high. Jan Bowen's book, 'The Fabulous Fifties' was published in 1995.

Audiocassettes:
Item 1: Kendra Sundquist interview by Jan Bowen
Item 2: Nene King interview by Jan Bowen
Item 3: Wendy McCarthy interview by Jan Bowen
Item 4: Helen Leonard interview by Jan Bowen
Item 5: Jeannette McHugh interview by Jan Bowen
Item 6: Quentin Bryce interview by Jan Bowen
Item 7: Anne Ferguson interview by Jan Bowen
Item 8: Eve Mahlab interview by Jan Bowen
Item 9: Sara Henderson interview by Jan Bowen

In copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder

The description of this material has been supplied from the Oral History Digitisation Program, undertaken 2014 to 2017, of the Library's oral history collections.

A transcription of these tapes is available.
Copy available at CY MLOH 255/1-9