Nicholson, Joyce Thorpe

Description

Agent TypePersonIdentifierUMA-AG-000001507Activities & OccupationsPublishersWomen's rights activistsHistoryJoyce Nicholson was born in Melbourne in 1919, the daughter of publisher D.W. Thorpe. She was educated at Methodist Ladies College and the University of Melbourne, where she graduated B.A. and was vice-president of the S.R.C. She has been active in the women's movement, including early involve- ments with W.E.L. and Sisters Publishing Ltd. She was Managing Director, and later sole owner, of D.W. Thorpe Pty Ltd from 1968 until 1987 when the firm was sold. She is also the author of over 25 books, many of them written for children; others deal with women's issues.

Item

Includes Family planning, Borrie report; education; wages;

WEL – various women’s issues

International Women’s Day, History

WEL – Letters, draft policies, proposed taxation changes; various articles.

WEL, policy papers and submissions,

Notes on WEL Broadsheets for M.A. thesis

Collected cuttings etc. of a WEL Media Action Group.

WEL – Charter

Child Care

Bill - Registration, Advertising and Sale of Contraceptives

Victorian WEL Constitution

Bound copy of her "The Women's Electoral Lobby and Women's Employment: strategies and outcome"

Accession

[2003.0022] Papers of Joyce Thorpe Nicholson

[1999.0071] Papers of Joyce Thorpe Nicholson with relation to the Women's Electoral Lobby

[1992.0079] The Women's Electoral Lobby and Women's Employment: strategies and outcome

[1999.0035] Papers of Joyce Thorpe Nicholson

People and Organisations

D.W. Thorpe Pty Ltd

Dates

Date1 June 1919-30 January 2011

Names

Given NameJoyceMiddle NameThorpeFamily NameNicholson

University of Melbourne Archives

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Nicholson, Joyce Thorpe