RAHS Special Lecture – Inconvenient Women: Australian radical writers 1900–1970

Event Date & Time: Wednesday, 15 October 2025 @ 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm

Event Location: History House, 133 Macquarie St, Sydney NSW 2000

Cost: Free

Event Description:

While Australia’s crusaders for women’s voting rights and the radical feminists of the 1970s are well known, less attention has been given to the generation between: the trailblazing women writers who challenged the nation’s status quo throughout the twentieth century. Jacqueline Kent traces the influence of women whose lives and work were shaped by the seismic events of the twentieth century, illuminating their immense courage and principled determination to change the world.

About the speaker:

Jacqueline Kent is a National Biography Award-winning writer principally of biographies, especially those of women. She has written the life stories of editor Beatrice Davis, pianist and social activist Hephzibah Menuhin, trans pioneer April Ashley, and the only full biography of Australia’s first woman prime minister Julia Gillard. She holds a Doctorate of Creative Arts from the University of Technology, Sydney.