词条 | Marguerite Dale |
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| name = Marguerite Ludovia Dale | image = Marguerite Dale, 1922.png | birth_name = Marguerite Ludovia Hume | birth_date = {{date of birth|1883|10|22|df=y}} | birth_place = Boorowa, New South Wales, Australia | death_date = {{date of death and age|1963|05|13|1883|10|22|df=y}} | death_place = Neutral Bay, New South Wales, Australia | nationality = Australia | genre = plays | spouse = George Samuel Evans | children = 2 daughters }} Marguerite Ludovia Dale (22 October 1883 – 13 May 1963) was an Australian playwright and feminist. The daughter of Charles Ludovia Hume and his wife Celia Annie Maltby, she was born Marguerite Ludovia Hume in Boorowa. Her great-uncle was the explorer, Hamilton Hume. She was educated at home by governesses and then attended Ascham School in Sydney. Following her mother's death in 1904, she ran the family household. In 1907, she married George Samuel Evans Dale(d.1944), a solicitor; the couple lived in Chatswood and had two daughters.[1] Dale campaigned for the early closing of hotels which was introduced in 1916 and helped lobby for the Women's Legal Status Act of 1918.[2] She was active in the Women's Reform League of New South Wales and became president of the league in 1923. She was active in the Workers' Educational Association, the National Council of Women of Australia and the Australian Federation of Women's Societies for Equal Citizenship. In 1922, she was named an alternate delegate to the League of Nations and addressed the assembly on white slavery. Around 1924, she spent 18 months in a sanatorium in Geneva due to poor health.[1] In 1935, she became the first Australian woman to take a commercial air flight to London.[3] She died in Neutral Bay at the age of 79.[1] WritingDale's first play, Secondary Considerations, was chosen by Gregan McMahon for performance by the Sydney Repertory Theatre in 1921.[4] Dale’s 1934 play, Meet as Lovers, was performed at the Savoy Theatre, Sydney as a fund-raiser for the Blind Institute. Her daughter, Philippa, an amateur actress, filled the leading role portraying an ingenue.[5] She edited A Year in Australia, a memoir by Swedish writer {{ill|Hedvig af Petersens|sv}}.[1] WorksDale wrote a number of plays which were performed in Sydney:[1]
References1. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite web|url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/dale-marguerite-ludovia-9889|title=Dale, Marguerite Ludovia (1883–1963)|last=Tate|first=Audrey|work=Audstralian Dictionary of Biography|accessdate=6 January 2019}} 2. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0342b.htm|title=Dale, Marguerite Ludovia|last=Stone|first=Caitlin|date=|website=The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia|language=en-gb|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2019-01-06}} 3. ^{{cite book|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=MMzfNbTIRisC&pg=PA23|title=To Try Her Fortune in London: Australian Women, Colonialism, and Modernity|last=Woollacott|first=Angela|year=2001|ISBN=0195349059|page=23}} 4. ^{{Cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article169771725|title=The Repertory Movement: Gregan McMahon's Fine Work|date=1922-02-08|work=Sydney Mail (NSW : 1912 - 1938)|access-date=2019-01-06|pages=9}} 5. ^1 {{Cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17122678|title=Prince In Play|last=|first=|date=1934-10-11|work=Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954)|access-date=2019-01-06|pages=8}} External links
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