Hazel Edwards spoke to us at our Literary Luncheon in 2017. Her book of plays, Re-enact, recently reissued introduces a lighthearted series of short plays for secondary schools. They include a play about Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Hospital, the first Australian hospital set up for and staffed by women. Other plays… Read More »Re-enact: Eight Plays by Hazel Edwards
In 1896 women doctors struggled against prejudice to find employment in Melbourne hospitals. In an important and thoughtful new book – Dinner with the Devil – Helen Macrae uncovers the compelling and sometimes funny stories of the amazing women who founded the hospital and later staffed Queen Vic as surgeons,… Read More »Dinner with the Devil
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