In Conversation with Clare Wright

You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians who won the vote and inspired the world 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.

For the ten years from 1902, when Australia’s feminist activists won the vote for white women, the world looked to this trailblazing young democracy for inspiration.

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 the artist Dora Meeson Coates, who painted the controversial Australian banner carried in the British feminist activist marches of 1908 and 1911.

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1. Image: Clare Wright