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The Suffragette's Daughter: Betty Archdale: Her Life of Feminism, Cricket, War and Education, by Deirdre Macpherson; Rosenberg, 2002, $45.
"DIDN' YOU USE to be someone in the sixties?" It is a classic question. Betty Archdale, headmistress of Sydney's Abbotsleigh girls' school from 1958 to 1970, was, like any sixties icon, controversial, and, up to a point at least, progressive. The media and the general culture had a vacancy into which they hoped she would fit: trendy headmistress, Jim Cairns of the classroom, leftist frontperson, mocking or earnestly questioning "convention" from a privileged position and popping up on the box to flannel on about ...
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