You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians Who Won the Vote and Inspired the World ISBN 9781922268181

For the ten years from 1902, when Australia’s suffrage campaigners won the vote for white women, the world looked to this trailblazing young democracy for inspiration. Clare Wright’s epic new history tells the story of that victory—and of Australia’s role in the subsequent international struggle—through the eyes of five remarkable players: the redoubtable Vida Goldstein, the flamboyant Nellie Martel, indomitable Dora Montefiore, daring Muriel Matters, and artist Dora Meeson Coates, who painted the controversial Australian banner carried in the British suffragettes’ monster marches of 1908 and 1911. Clare Wright’s Stella Prize-winning The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka retold one of Australia’s foundation stories from a fresh new perspective. With You Daughters of Freedom she brings to life a time when Australian democracy was the envy of the world—and the standard bearer for progress in a shining new century. Read a chapter sample from You Daughters of Freedom here. INTERVIEWS and REVIEWS Senator Penny Wong’s launch speech 2SER  3RRR: Breakfasters (2:16:00) ABC: The Conversation Hour ABC Radio National: Big Ideas ABC Radio National: Big Ideas (with Judith Brett)  ABC Radio National: Conversations ABC Radio National: Late Night Live ABC Radio National: Saturday Extra ABC Sydney: Drive (0:30) ABC TV: Q & A ANZ LitLovers blog Australian ($) ‘You Daughters of Freedom brings some forgotten women into the public discourse again, and we are all the richer for it.’ Australian Policy & History Ballarat Courier Better Words podcast  The Conversation Final Draft interview (part one) Final Draft interview (part two) Guardian: Bookmark This Guardian (Op-ed) Her Canberra Julia Gillard podcast    Mary Baker Eddy Library podcast  onest History Inside Story RTR FM Spectator ‘Another book to re-invigorate a near-forgotten chapter of history.’ Sydney Institute: Crafting the Nation: The Story of a Banner, a Bicentennial and a Berth in the Big House of Australian Democracy (lecture) Sydney Morning Herald Whispering Gums