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Edith Cowan Centenary: ‘no fit place for a woman’
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Edith Cowan
Edith Cowan - Resources
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Edith Cowan 100: A tribute
A video tribute to the legacy of Edith Cowan from the ‘Class of 2021’, ECU Broadcasting
Biographical Register
Edith Dircksey Cowan
Biographical Register of Members of Parliament of Western Australia
Education Office
Edith Cowan Centenary Special Edition
: teacher and student workbooks
Factsheet
Edith Cowan Centenary Information Pack
Books
Edith Cowan: a quiet woman of note
written by Hazel Edwards; illustrated by Angela Grzegrzolka, Frenchs Forest, N.S.W.: New Frontier Publishing, 2014
A unique position: a biography of Edith Dircksey Cowan, 1861-1932
by Peter Cowan, Nedlands, W.A.: University of Western Australia Press, 1978
The voice of Edith Cowan, Australia's first woman parliamentarian, 1921-24
edited by Harry CJ Phillips, Churchlands: Edith Cowan University, 1996
Articles
‘Edith Dircksey Cowan’
Reflections: profiles of 150 women who helped make Western Australia's history
edited by Daphne Popham; illustrated by Kerry Ann Stokes, Perth: Carroll's, 1978, 1979 printing
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Edith Dirksey Cowan, social worker and politician’
by Margaret Brown IN Australian dictionary of biography, Vol. 8, p. 123-124, 1987
Edith Cowan
Wikipedia
Cowan, Edith Dircksey
The Encyclopaedia of Women & Leadership in Twentieth Century Australia