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'Australian history would never be the same again after the strident, vehement and passionate interventions of a generation of academic feminists who sought to re-write the past in ways which not only aimed to give women a voice, and a recognition of their roles and achievements. These scholars - born during the Second World War or immediately after the War - also aimed to change the very enterprise of historical inquiry itself.' (Author's introduction 37)

'Kay Daniels was born in Adelaide on 17 June 1941, the daughter of working-class parents. She attended state schools, then the University of Adelaide, where she studied with Ken Inglis, Ian Turner, and Hugh Stretton. In 1963, she won the George Murray travelling scholarship and used it, not to go to Oxford as her teachers had expected, but to go to the radical Sussex University. There with Asa Briggs and David Daiches as supervisors, she wrote her PhD entitled 'New Grub Street', a study of 1890s English literature and society. Raymond Williams, the cultural studies scholar, was its examiner.' (Author's introduction 47)