When Your Money is Not Your Own: Women, Business & the Law

When: 14 Aug 2026 - 10.00 am – 11.30 am

Where: Online

Limit: 25

When Your Money is Not Your Own: Women, Business & the Law

Presenter: Dr Catherine Bishop

For much of the 19th century Australasian wives were essentially non-people, unable to own property, make contracts or sue in court independently of their husbands. In this talk, award-winning historian Dr Catherine Bishop will explain exactly how the law worked and explore the myriad ways - both respectable and otherwise - that women navigated their way around legal restrictions to make a living. From lady schoolmarms to earthy publicans, from hard-working milliners to charming con-women, our feminine forebears could be surprisingly entrepreneurial

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