Tapestry

For all the dinners are cooked; the plates and cups washed; the children sent to school and gone out in the world. Nothing remains of it. All has vanished. No biography or history has a word to say about it. And the novels, without meaning to, inevitably lie! All these infinitely obscure lives remain to be recorded. Virginia Woolf

'Tapestry' is a collection of stories acknowledging ordinary Australian women. They are written by friends or family members and cover many decades of our history.

Some are available online while others can be accessed at the Library itself.

Number	Name
1	Lillian MacKay
6	Edna Briggs
10	Getrude Myrtle Leggo
13	Daisy Peaters
16	Jill Hunter
18	Margaret Ruby Hughes
34	Elizabeth Astbury
35	Margaret Pearl Fraser
36	Janie Pearce
37	Clara Weston
38	Hilda Finnerty
39	Marjorie Grace Simpson
40	Maud Mary Beckett
42	Madge Edis Pickburn
43	Jean Cooke
52	Sheila Hungerford
54	Helena Richmond Meaney
56	Adeline (Chaplin) Mellington
58	Antonina Komarowski
62	Daphne Caine
64	Winnie Edwards
65	Alma Hamilton
70	Helen Ruby
72	Dinah Myrtle McGee
74	Nona Pearce
79	Patricia Degens
80	Evelyn Hussey Brown
91	Hana Fried
97	Winifred Lily McKevett (nee O'Neill)
101	Isabel Cavanagh
102	Isatu Jalloh
104	Lesley Edith Lambert
105	Joan Godsall

You are encouraged to add your story or that of another women you think should be acknowledged. Just download the Registration form and send in your contribution to:

'Tapestry'
Jessie Street National Women's Library
GPO Box 2656
Sydney NSW 2001