Vida by Jacqueline Kent
Author, Jacqueline Kent, is on the Convo Couch chatting to Pamela Cook about her new book Vida all about the life of Vida Goldstein, Australia’s most celebrated crusader for the rights of women.
It’s Melbourne, 1903. Vida Goldstein is the first woman in the Western world to run for a national parliament. After a gruelling election campaign she is defeated. Undeterred, she’ll run for parliament a further four times and gain widespread fame in Australia, the US and Britain.
From her birthplace in Portland, Victoria in 1869 to the glittering tide of wealth in Melbourne’s 1880s and through depressions and war, VIDA: A Woman for Our Time investigates the alchemy of Vida Goldstein’s making – her remarkable contributions, her rise to international fame and her disappearance from politics.
Jacqueline Kent writes a captivating portrait of a true pioneer, demonstrating the power, nerve and passion of a woman with a cause.
Kent explores the difficulties a woman faced entering politics at the turn of the century, and the difficulties women still face making a career in politics. Despite the challenges, Vida blazed a trail, not just a woman ahead of her time, but a woman for our time.
Jacqueline has written acclaimed biographies of Julia Gillard, pianist and social activist Hephzibah Menuhin, and pioneer book editor Beatrice Davis. In this episode Jacqueline explores the courage and inspiration required to write a woman's power.
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