A Clear Vision: Mrs Janet O’Connor and the Duporth School for Young Women, Oxley, Queensland
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Mrs Janet O’Connor – first Lady Principal of Brisbane Girls Grammar in 1875 – was a woman ahead of her time. Her philosophy of education clashed with the established grammar mode. Her answer was to establish her own school Duporth, which be...
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A Clear Vision as a research document
The research data included in the final pages of this book are both reliable and comprehensive. I have already recommended the book for inclusion in the Esk Shire Council library where there are books about the men from the families whose sisters and daughters were enrolled at Deporth school but are seldom included in local history except as an adjunct to the men's pioneering of the Brisbane River Valley. The early text chapters are well and carefully written.