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For the ten years after 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 at the forefront of the subsequent international struggle - through the eyes of five remarkable players: the redoubtable Vida Goldstein, flamboyant Nellie Martel, indomitable Dora Montefiore, daring Muriel Matters and the self-effacing 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. In 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. You Daughters of Freedom is part two of Clare Wright's Democracy Trilogy, which began with The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka. The final volume will be a history of the 1963 Yirrkala bark petitions.

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`You Daughters of Freedom brings some forgotten women into the public discourse again, and we are all the richer for it.' -- The Australian `A celebration of leadership, inspiration, education and sheer individual cheek.' -- Sydney Morning Herald `An exciting history of a trailblazing campaign.' -- Good Weekend

'You Daughters of Freedom brings some forgotten women into the public discourse again, and we are all the richer for it.' -- The Australian 'A celebration of leadership, inspiration, education and sheer individual cheek.' -- Sydney Morning Herald 'An exciting history of a trailblazing campaign.' -- Good Weekend

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Dr Clare Wright is an award-winning historian and author who has worked as an academic, political speechwriter, historical consultant and radio and television broadcaster. Wright's The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka won the 2014 Stella Prize and the 2014 NIB Award for Literature and was shortlisted for numerous other prizes. It is published in a revised edition as We Are the Rebels, which was a Children's Book Council of Australia Notable Book for 2016. Her essays and journalism have been widely published. Her work in other media includes the ABC-TV documentaries Utopia Girls: How Women Won the Vote and The War That Changed Us, as well as the podcast Shooting the Past, which is broadcast on ABC Radio National. Clare Wright is currently an Associate Professor of History at La Trobe University. She lives in Melbourne with her husband and their three children. Dr Clare Wright is an award-winning historian and author who has worked as an academic, political speechwriter, historical consultant and radio and television broadcaster. Her work in other media includes the ABC-TV documentaries Utopia Girls: How Women Won the Vote and The War That Changed Us, as well as the podcast Shooting the Past, which is broadcast on ABC Radio National. Clare Wright is currently an Associate Professor of History at La Trobe University. She lives in Melbourne with her husband and their three children.

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