skip to content
Photo: Louisa Lawson founder of The Dawn: Journal for Australian Women

"There has hitherto been no trumpet through which the concentrated voices of womankind could publish their grievances and their opinions."

Louisa Lawson

The Dawn: a Journal for Australian Women was conceived and published by Louisa Lawson from 1888 to 1905.

The National Library of Australia has been working to get our newspapers online and publishing them at http://trove.nla.gov.au.
It's time to add The Dawn to the collection.

Jessie Street National Women's Library

Jessie Street National Women's Library is a specialist library, collecting material about women and women's issues. It is self-funding and dependent largely on membership subscriptions, donations and fundraising events to meet its running expenses. It is staffed by volunteers, many of whom are professional librarians, who willingly give personal attention to users and their needs.

Success!

Today "The Dawn" is available to all through the National Library of Australia's Trove search tool.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title252

You can download whole PDFs of each issue, but you can also browse article by article. You can copy and paste citations in a range of formats, including one for wikipedia!

And you can help improve the text!

Tags: 
Trove
National Library of Australia

Campaign report

Cover image: Australian Feminist Studies - Volume 26, Issue 68, 2011

Campaign Director Donna Benjamin was invited to write up a short report on our campaign to Digitise The Dawn for respected journal Australian Feminist Studies. They have kindly sent through a print copy, and also allowed Donna to retain copyright over the article - so that she may reproduce it here.

If you wish to cite this article please refer to the published edition:
Benjamin, Donna (2011) 'DIGITISE THE DAWN', Australian Feminist Studies, 26: 68, 225 — 227

Subscribe to Digitise The Dawn RSS