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Start date: 1980 × End date: 1999 × Type: Masters Coursework thesis × Author: Guthrie, Desma Jean ×

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    Widows and welfare in Victoria in the nineteen twenties and nineteen thirties
    Guthrie, Desma Jean ( 1984-02)
    My interest in the subject of this thesis was first aroused when I was engaged in an essay in the final year of my Honours course in the School of History at the University of Melbourne. I read the evidence of witnesses at the 1936 Select Committee Inquiry on Widows’ Pensions in Victoria, which evoked personal memories of the Depression of the nineteen thirties and its devastating effect on family life. (For complete abstract open document)