What is it about?
This paper tells the compelling story of Viennese-born and educated Anna Marie Hlawaczek (c.1849–1893) and her employment as the second headmistress at Maitland Girls High School in the colony of New South Wales (NSW) from 1885 to 1887.
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Why is it important?
The careers of non-Anglo women working in the early colonial secondary schools for girls have been rarely studied. Anna Hlawaczek's previously untold story as one pioneering transnational headmistress in the NSW Department of Public Instruction complicates the transnational approach in the history of women’s education by highlighting the power of the national within the transnational.
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This paper was a voyage of discovery. It underscores not only the provisional nature of girls's secondary education in NSW in the 19th century but also the international careers of the remarkable women chosen to lead these first schools set up by the colonial government. They were an international group - the first headmistress of Maitland Girls High School was trained in Prussia; another school's first headmistress hailed from Natal; and Anna Marie was born and raised in Austria.
Dr Josephine May
University of Newcastle
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This page is a summary of: The national in the transnational, History of Education Review, September 2018, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/her-12-2017-0030.
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