Roma the first
Subtitle: a biography of Dame Roma Mitchell
By: Susan Magarey & Kerrie Round.
Contributors: Round, Kerrie.
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Kent Town, S. Aust
Language: eng
Number of pages: 465
ISBN-13: 9781862547803
Subjects: Mitchell, Roma, -- Dame, -- 1913-; Women judges -- Australia -- South Australia -- Biography.; Women lawyers -- Australia -- South Australia -- Biography.; Governors -- Australia -- South Australia -- Biography.; Women in public life -- Australia.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Here is Roma Flinders Mitchell, 1913-2000, a life spanning a century that transformed the position of women. She was the first woman chancellor of an Australian university, the first woman in Australia to be made a Queens Counsel and to be appointed a judge in a superior court and the first woman Governor of an Australian State. Roma Mitchells life is also a story about contradictions. A life-long and devout Catholic, her religion aligned her with Irish working-class Outsiders, yet she gained a position at the heart of the Protestant Establishment, in a world dominated by men."-- From the publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-453) and index.