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Elizabeth Jane (Bessie) Robinson
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- 2025-03-28 11:39:43
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- Elizabeth Jane (Bessie) Robinson
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- The Old Vic Inn 56 Gaskill St, Canowindra
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- Canowindra is on the lands of the Wiradjuri people
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- <p>Elizabeth Jane (‘Bessie’) Robinson was a businesswoman who drove the development of the central west town of Canowindra and advocated for quality public education.</p><p>Bessie’s land stretched from present-day Gaskill Street to Clyburn Street. The Old Vic Inn now stands on the site of The Victoria Hotel built on Bessie’s land, which she ran from 1868 until the early 1900s.</p><p>In the early 1870s Bessie began campaigning for better education in Canowindra, following which, in 1875, the government agreed to set up a state school. Bessie was also instrumental in building modern-day Canowindra, developing her land for residential and commercial purposes.</p>
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- Elizabeth Jane (‘Bessie’) Robinson was a businesswoman who drove the development of the central west town of Canowindra and advocated for quality public education.
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Louisa Lawson
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- 2025-04-03 14:54:54
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- <p>Louisa Lawson was a significant figure within the feminist, suffrage and Labor union movements. As publisher and writer for <em>Dawn – A Journal for Australian Women, </em>she was dedicated to writing about women’s issues. Louisa is credited as the originator of the suffrage movement in the state, once described as ‘The Mother of Suffrage in New South Wales'.</p><p>She was an independent and resourceful intellectual who is today celebrated for campaigning for women’s right to vote. Louisa was a single mother to her son, Henry.</p>
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