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Roma the First A biography of PB 480 PP 235 x 155 ILLUS ISBN 9781862547803 $39.95 Wakefield Press Here is Roma Flinders Mitchell, 1913–2000, a life spanning a century that transformed the position of women, changes she led. She was the first woman chancellor of an Australian university, the first woman in Australia to be made a Queen’s Counsel and to be appointed a judge in a superior court and the first woman Governor of an Australian State. Roma Mitchell’s life is also a story about contradictions. A life-long and devout Catholic, her religion aligned her with Irish working-class Outsiders, yet she gained a position at the heart of the Protestant Establishment, in a world almost exclusively of men. Related titles: |