biography
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1934– )
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| biography:
| Historian and teacher, born in Hillston, Australia. Raised on a sheep ranch, she became a historian at the University of Sydney, then joined Harvard (1960). She taught women's history at the University of Toronto (1964–75), becoming Smith College's first woman president (1975–85). A visiting professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she wrote a best-selling memoir, The Road from Coorain (1989), and continued her academic contributions to women's history. |
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