WENDY LOWENSTEIN 1927-2006


A highly active fieldworker in folklore and oral history, publisher, author and peace activist. She is probably the only folklorist to have a street named after her, Lowenstein Lane in Canberra.

 

A guide to the papers and oral history and folklore recordings are in the NLA at

https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-369339175/findingaid

 

Further papers of Wendy Lowenstein are held at Monash University's Institute for Regional Studies, see IRS Archive link.

 

Also in the State Library of Victoria at

http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=SLV_VOYAGER841275&context=L&vid=MAIN&search_scope=Everything&tab=default_tab&lang=en_US

 

Biographies at Wikipedia, THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WOMEN & LEADERSHIP IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY AUSTRALIA http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0413b.htm

and elsewhere …

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