Dunolly Womens Historical Art Trail

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<<if visited ("Waif Wander") is 1>> You've discovered Waif Wander! <<set $women++>><</if>> Women: $women <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KElF1c5aYWI" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> memorial animation by Louise Cooper Mary Helena Fortune is one of Australia's most prolific authors of all time, she was Australia's first detective novelist and the first person in the world to write detective stories from the detective's perspective and to include real life details of investigations in her stories. This is the very popular framework for detective storytelling that we now see on the television each night. <<display "waifwritingleft">> She wrote over 500 detective stories, mostly for The Australian Journal. Despite being such a groundbreaking and popular author, her true name and identity were not public knowledge. Her writing became a good supplement to her income but being a single mother was not good for the image of a writer so Mary Helena Fortune concealed her real identity by using her initials, MHF and with the pseudonyms, Waif Wander, WW and Nessuno (which is italian for nobody). The Australian Journal honoured this, never disclosing her name and even when she died they never wrote an obituary. Born Mary Helena Wilson in Belfast about 1833, her mother died in childbirth or soon after. She was brought up by her father. They moved to Canada where Mary did her schooling and at the age of eighteen married Joseph Fortune In 1851. Together, they had a son and named him Joseph George or Georgie. <<display "tarilta">> Mary left Canada for Australia, alone with her son. Her father had already moved to Australia and Mary decided to find him. Taking a ship to Scotland and then another one to Australia she arrived in Melbourne in October 1855 and placed a notice in the missing persons column for her father. He was running a store at Tarilta, south of Castlemaine and Mary was soon on the coach to find him. Before leaving Canada, Mary had been commissioned to write a series of articles about the goldfields for The Ladies Companion. Upon arrival on the goldfields, she abandoned the idea. "who would write pages at fifteen shillings when one paid nine shillings per day for milk, and for a "woman's" magazine, too! Nay, there was nothing of the namby-pamby elegance of ladies literature in our stirring, hardy, and eventful life on the early goldfields" Mary published sketches in the Buninyong Advertiser and her first writing printed in Australia was 'Song of The Diggers'. It appeared in the Mount Alexander Mail in December of 1855, and a week later was reprinted by the Bendigo Advertiser, under the signature “M. H. F.” <i>Hurrah for the free new land! And hurrah for the diggers bold! And hurrah for the strong unfettered right To search in the hills for gold! Turn up the sods, my strong free mates, And dig with a fearless hand: For there’s not a castled lordling here, In all this glorious land. Breathe for a moment, one glad breath, Throw up the shadeless brow: Where is the paid task-master’s eye? We never were men till now! — Men with a right to toil, Men with a right to speak! And a strength we will never use, please God, To trample down the weak! Oh! brightly gleams the ore In the digger’s cradle rocked; But ’tis found in a bank-till free to all In a coffer all unlocked. Then dig! ’tis for wife and babes, We are marring beauties now, But the time will come for the waving grain, And our sons shall hold the plough! </i> <<display "journo">> On the strength of her writing, Mary was invited to interview for a position as sub-editor of the Mount Alexander Mail and retracted upon learning that she was female. She would later recall of the incident: <i>I was interviewed by a man who stared in open-eyed wonderat me and my youngster, whom I led by the hand. "Are you 'M.H.F'?" he questioned with evident disbelief. "Yes." "I can hardly credit it. You had better see Mr. Saint; but as for the request that M.H.F. would call, we want a reporter and sub-editor, and thought that he might suit." </i> She stayed with her father for several years traveling to various gold rushes including Chinamans Flat (Timor), Inkerman and Kingower. She had a second son, Joseph in 1856. Rather than list him as illegitimate she gave Joseph Fortune as the father. George, her first child died in Kingower in 1858. <<display "waifmarried">> That same year, Mary met and married a mounted constable, Percy Rollo Brett. They came in to Dunolly for the wedding. She described Dunolly as a gay babel of fun and full of amusements for a honeymooning pair. The marriage however, was short lived but its effect ongoing. Mary drew inspiration from this relationship in her stories starting with 'The Stolen Specimens' by Waif Wander as an Australian Mounted Trooper. Mary continued helping her father in the shop, looking after her children and doing other occasional jobs. By 1865 she was living at Wehla. Mary had done some writing so when the Australian Journal started publication she sent them a poem. They liked it and paid her for it. Within a short time she had sent in more poems, short stories and novels that were serialized in the journal. Life was not easy on Mary, she became an alcoholic herself and her surviving son became a criminal. By 1920 she was an old, blind lady of 87 unable to write and living in poverty in Bendigo. Her death passed unnoticed. You decide to go for [[wander]].

<<if visited ("Geolocation") is 1 and approxEqual($Location.latitude, $Dunollymuseumlat) and approxEqual($Location.longitude, $Dunollymuseumlong)>> tap. tap. Someone is shaking your shoulder. [[Look around]] <<elseif visited ("Geolocation") is 1>> Your current location is Latitude: $Location.latitude Longitude: $Location.longitude Venture to Dunolly Museum to [[begin your journey.|Welcome Stranger!]] <</if>> <<if visited ("Geolocation") is 0>> tap. tap. Someone is shaking your shoulder. [[Look around]] <</if>>

<<display "museumpic">> You lift your head, your eyes are bleary. Where are you? The air smells musty and the room is cold. You see cabinets full of old curiosities, black and white photos from days gone by adorn the walls. An aging desktop sits on the desk and behind you there are filing cabinets full of historical documents. "Time to lock up.. you can go home now" the man tapping you on the shoulder says. You must have fallen asleep. That's right. You've been volunteering at Dunolly Museum. You noticed the [[Women Puddlers]] on the 1857 Census that was taken during the [[Gold Rush]] and started daydreaming what life must have been like for a woman back then. You must have nodded off, luckily you didn't leave any drool stains on the historical documents. [[Leave the museum]]

You get to your feet and stumble out of the museum. You emerge into the fresh air and feel slightly revived. You decide to talk a walk and see if you can find any clues about the women who lived in Dunolly during the Gold Rush. You wonder what life might have been like for them. In your hand you hold a map, on it are listed some key points to search for women's stories around town.

You cross over Thompson St. You are now standing outside the Gold & Grain Cafe. They make delicious snacks and meals inside. You feel like there must have been a strong female presence here once upon a time. [[detect]]

<<display "Bendigo">> This building has hardly been touched since the days of the Gold Rush and you decide that there must be some relics hidden away. You take out your phone and [[detect the area]].

Latitude: $Location.latitude Longitude: $Location.longitude <<if visited ("Geolocation") is 1>> <<if approxEqual($Location.latitude, $Charpiotlat) and approxEqual($Location.longitude, $Charpiotlong)>> You unearth an antique box. Dusting away the dirt and dust, you see engraved in the lid of the box, 'Photographic studios of Madame Charpiot, 1857'. [[Who was Madame Charpiot?]] <<else>> Try looking in the vicinity of the [[Gold & Grain Cafe.|detect]] <</if>><</if>> <<if visited ("Geolocation") is 0>> You unearth an antique box. Dusting away the dirt and dust, you see engraved in the lid of the box, 'Photographic studios of Madame Charpiot, 1857'. [[Who was Madame Charpiot?]] <</if>>

Latitude: $Location.latitude Longitude: $Location.longitude <<if visited ("Geolocation") is 1 and approxEqual($Location.latitude, $Bendigohotellat) and approxEqual($Location.longitude, $Bendigohotellong)>> A vision flashes upon your screen. The woman invites you inside to [[sit by the fire.|Miss Emily Glyndon]] <<elseif visited ("Geolocation") is 1>> [[detect the area]]<</if>> <<if visited ("Geolocation") is 0>> A vision flashes upon your screen. The woman invites you inside to [[sit by the fire.|Miss Emily Glyndon]] <</if>>

You turn to the older woman and ask whether you could have a look at her newspaper. She smiles as she hands it to you remarking "there is a great new story in there from our local author, [[Waif Wander]].

<<if visited ("Who was Madame Charpiot?") is 1>> You've discovered Madame Charpiot!<<set $women++>><</if>> <<display "madam">> memorial artwork by Lauren Starr Elizabeth Ann Henwood was born in Cork, Ireland. Along with her younger brother and sister, at the age of 23 she travelled to Victoria on the ship 'Velore' arriving in January 1853. Like most others at the time they headed for the goldfields. Two years after arriving Elizabeth married a Frenchman, George Charpiot, who was a dentist in Ballarat. Elizabeth soon purchased a camera. She started calling herself Madame Charpiot and taking portraits in a room in her husband’s shop. She was the third earliest female photographer in Australia. In November 1856 the Ballarat Star wrote “Opposite to the office of this journal the admirers of the daguerreotype will find in the rooms of Madame Charpiot another Temple of Art; and a large collection of specimens attests this lady’s skill in the branch she has chosen to practice.” In 1857, George and Elizabeth Charpiot headed for Dunolly and opened a shop initially at 71 Broadway and later shifted to 52 Broadway. Madame Charpiot was regarded as the toughest photographer whether male or female on all of the goldfields. In 1859, they left Dunolly for gold rushes at Talbot and then Tarnagulla. At Tarnagulla the Charpiots opened a shop in Commercial Road. George changed his occupation from that of a dentist to become a watchmaker and jeweller while Elizabeth continued on with her photographic studio. By that time she had purchased a modern camera and was taking carde de visite portraits still under the name of Madame Charpiot. In May 1865 she set up a temporary darkroom at the Tarnagulla Church of England bazaar so that she could take photographic likenesses. At one stage they displayed rich specimens from the Corfu Reef in their shop window. At another time it was reported that the jewellery shop was burgled of £200 worth of watches. This was while the shop was closed during the Tarnagulla Races. In January 1868 their shop in Tarnagulla was burnt down. The jewellery part of the business was reopened a few weeks later in a nearby bootshop. It is not known just how much of her photographic equipment or her stock of negatives was lost but it was possibly the entire collection. Elizabeth never advertised as a photographer again. A few months after the fire the couple moved back to Dunolly, this time to a shop at 82 Broadway. In September 1870, George Charpiot had a stroke and died leaving Elizabeth to continue on her own. Twelve months later Elizabeth left Dunolly and married Braham Phillips Mosely at Maryborough. Mosely was also a watchmaker and jeweller and known to Elizabeth for many years. He had a shop the same time as her at Dunolly in 1858 and at Tarnagulla in 1859. The couple stayed in Maryborough until October 1873 when they left for Melbourne. A few years later and they were back again in Maryborough only to leave again in 1882. B P Mosely died in St Kilda in 1901 aged 81 and Elizabeth died in 1913. She was 83 years old. Unfortunately there are no identifiable photographs attributable to Elizabeth that have survived to the present day.

<<if visited ("Miss Emily Glyndon") is 1>> You've discovered Miss Emily Glyndon!<<set $women++>><</if>> <<display "glyndon">> Memorial artwork by Louise Cooper, original photo inside Bendigo Hotel by Phillip Ashton. You follow her inside and she takes a seat by the old fireplace. It is like the years fall off her as she begins to speak about her adventures travelling the world on the premise that women should be allowed to wear pants. "My stage name was Miss Emily Glyndon" she begins... "I was born as Emily Johnstone in Paisley, Scotland. The year was 1827. I would grow up to become an actress, theatre director and advocate for women’s rights" Emily's achievements were spread between England, Australia and New Zealand. During the 1850s she was at the forefront of the Bloomerism movement which saw pantalettes renamed as bloomers and made into a fashion symbol representative of women's rights. She toured England giving lectures on bloomerism. This involved her wearing bloomers on stage and explaining their advantages. Her assistant would wear a variety of women’s clothes from Tudor times to present whilst Emily would explain their disadvantages. The London newspapers described Miss Emily Glyndon as “a pretty and pert little actress” and “certainly the pretty face and form of Miss Glyndon set off the dress to the best advantage.” She went to Gibraltar in 1853 and 1854 where she performed for the troops at the Garrison. Promoter, George Coppin, brought Emily and Charles Stewart to Australia for a tour in 1855; they arrived aboard the Arabic on the 24th of July. Emily’s first Australian performance was at the opening of Coppin’s Olympic Theatre in Melbourne. Later in 1855 they went to Sydney where Emily and Charles Stewart were married. In 1856, Emily became the director of the Royal Theatre in Auckland. Here she played Mrs Haller in The Stranger and performed in The Rival Pages. One of the Auckland performances was a fund raiser for fellow women’s rights activist Florence Nightingale. There were many volunteers. Afterwards it was found that Charles Stewart had kept £13 expenses leaving only £3 for the fund. Emily, being the director, was the one who was criticised. They left for Sydney. After two months in Sydney they headed off for a tour of Tasmania. Here she opened the remodelled Theatre Royal. They were back in Melbourne in July 1857. Miss Emily Glyndon was a regular at the Princess Theatre. Charles and Emily separated. Charles ended up in Geelong Gaol and then Yarra Bend Asylum with monomania where he died on the 5th of February, 1860. At the Theatre Royal in Castlemaine in 1860 Emily played Herminie de Vermont in Love’s Sacrifice. She also performed at Bendigo, Ballarat and Lamplough. She was touring Inglewood in 1860 when she met and soon married William Frederick Tatchell. He was a local publican and Cobb & Co agent. They were married in 1861. After her marriage Emily gave up her professional career. From then on she only acted in plays that raised money for charity. She came to Dunolly and played Lady Blanche Rushton in Babes in the Woods and also performed in the comedy How to Settle Accounts with your Laundress. In December 1862 a fire broke out in Inglewood destroying most of the main street. An attempt was made to stop the fire at the Royal Hotel by pulling down shops near it. This was to no avail and the hotel and attached hall were destroyed. The Tatchells were uninsured and their loss estimated at between £4,000 and £5,000. The hotel was rebuilt. In March 1863 she directed the ‘Wonderful Woman’ and ‘Time Tires All’ for the opening of the Theatre Royal at Talbot. In 1869 the Tatchells moved to Dunolly and purchased the Bendigo Hotel. Emily’s management skills would have been needed here as it was a busy hotel. There were regular Cobb & Co coaches, commercial travellers, lodgers, meetings, meals and the bar to attend to. Emily Tatchell died in November 1876 and was buried in the Dunolly Cemetery. William F Tatchell remarried and outlived his second wife. He died in October 1897 and was buried on his own in the Dunolly Cemetery. His grave is exactly halfway between his first and second wives. Emily tells you that if you [[wander]] along this side of the road, you may find some more information aboout remarkable women.

<<if visited ("Geolocation") is 1>> <<if approxEqual($Location.latitude, $Postlat) and approxEqual($Location.longitude, $Postlong)>> <<display "Express">> This is where the Dunolly & Bet Bet Express newspaper offices once stood. You ask around at the Dunolly & Bet Bet Express Office for stories about Captain Harry Baker. They excitedly show you some articles they have printed. [[Read a newspaper]] <<else>> [[Detect in the vicinity of the Post Office|Dunolly Post Office]]<</if>> <</if>> <<if visited ("Geolocation") is 0>> <<display "Express">> You ask around at the Dunolly & Bet Bet Express Office for stories about Captain Harry Baker. They excitedly hand you a newspaper. [[Read a newspaper]]<</if>>

Continue to the last of the shops. [[Detect Bell's General Store]]

<<if visited ("Geolocation") is 1>> <<if approxEqual($Location.latitude, $Bakerlat) and approxEqual($Location.longitude, $Bakerlong)>> You watch in wonder as Captain Baker displays his astronomical genius and observe his daughter, [[Euphemia]] working alongside him.<<else>> Try looking around [[Dunolly Bistro and Bar.|Detect Bell's General Store]] <</if>><</if>> <<if visited ("Geolocation") is 0>> You watch in wonder as Captain Baker displays his astronomical genius and observe his daughter, [[Euphemia]] working alongside him. <</if>>

<<if visited ("Geolocation") is 1>> <<if approxEqual($Location.latitude, $Russelllat) and approxEqual($Location.longitude, $Russelllong)>> Ahhh, you have reached the end of the footpath, on the corner of Daly St (once called Russell Street) and Broadway is where the Russell Residence once stood. This is where the young [[Eliza]] grew up! <<else>> Continue until you reach the corner of [[Daly St]] where the footpath runs out and try again.<</if>><</if>> <<if visited ("Geolocation") is 1 and not approxEqual($Location.latitude, $Russelllat) and approxEqual($Location.longitude, $Russelllong)>> Continue out of town until the footpath runs out at Daly Street and [[try again|Daly St]] <</if>> <<if visited ("Geolocation") is 0>> At the corner of Broadway and Daly St is where the young [[Eliza]] once lived.<</if>>

White settlement began in this area during the 1840s. Before the 1856 gold rush, the town of Dunolly had moved four times. In 1857, the Dunolly-Moliagul region produced more gold per capita than any other place in Australia. In 1869, the Welcome Stranger, the largest gold nugget ever found was uncovered at Moliagul. Moliagul is now a ghost town with a population of less than 100 people.

<<if $women == 6>><<popover>><center>Wow! Dunolly really hit the jackpot with so many remarkable women! <br> Congratulations!! <br> You have completed Dunolly Womens Historical Art Trail.. <br>Please check out our local shops and enjoy something tasty to eat and drink - <br> you've earnt it!<br></center><</popover>><</if>>

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<<display newspaperimg>> 21-12-1871 Dunolly and Bet Bet Shire Express. You read about the death of a young girl's father who used to live on the corner of Broadway and Daly Street. Continuing on, you read about Captain Henry Baker. Without insinuating they are moonstruck, we have to record the fact that many of our townspeople have recently been very interestedly moon and star gazing in the neighborhood of our publishing office. Passing along Broadway, wayfarers have been struck by the appearance of a (in this place) very unusual and curious looking object erected on the vacant piece of ground in front of our establishment, and looking not unlike a huge Armstrong gun, poised, and pointed skywards. The object, however, was no implement of deadly warfare, but nothing more than Captain Baker’s new great reflecting telescope, and those who have observed the celestial bodies through its aid have enjoyed a treat rarely, if ever before, obtainable up-country. So perfectly and clearly can the moon be viewed through t his instrument that the every prominence and every declivity, every fissure and seam on its surface is distinctly visible as are the letters in this type. We have observed the planets through many great telescopes at home and in the colonies, but we can truthfully assert that we never before found an instrument so powerful, or showing objects so clearly as Captain Baker’s. It is worthy of remark that the instrument has been entirely constructed by Captain Baker, who first began to pay attention to this subject four years ago. It was then he read a description of the great equatorial telescope about to despatched to Melbourne, and he determined to endeavor to make one like it. That he has got on the right track, and that he has a decided genius for invention, imitation and improvement, is amply proved by the success he has attained with the instrument we are noticing. The Captain has long been favorably known in the Dunolly district for his ingenious construction of magnetic and electric apparatus, but in the construction of his telescope he has far outshone all his previous efforts. The length of the cylinder is 11 feet and the speculum is about 1 foot in diameter. Captain Baker alleges that he has discovered an improved method of polishing the speculum, and this may readily be believed when the perfect clearness with which the heavenly bodies can be seen through his instrument is considered. The Captain lately paid a visit to the Melbourne observatory, and was very courteously received, and allowed to examine the great telescope, which however, he says, does not show objects nearly s clearly as his own. He states that he offered to Mr Ellery that he would polish a speculum for the great telescope by his own process, but the gentleman merely requested to know what the polishing material was, a secret which Captain Baker very naturally declined to divulge. If the Captain is really acquainted with an improved process for speculum polishing, of which we have little doubt, it is a pity, for the sake of science, that an opportunity is not afforded him of proving it. We would like some qualified expert to examine the Captain’s telescope, and are glad to learn it is not unlikely he may by-and-by take it down to Melbourne. He intends shortly to take it to Maryborough, Talbot, and other neighboring towns, and we can assure the residents of those places that they will have offered to them a treat of a very superior and instructive kind, which they will do well not to miss.

<<if visited ("Geolocation") is 1>> <<if approxEqual($Location.latitude, $Royalhotellat) and approxEqual($Location.longitude, $Royalhotellong)>><<display "royalhotel">> Four people stand outside the Royal Hotel, a man, two women and a girl. One woman is holding a [[newspaper]]. <<else>> Go to [[The Royal Hotel]] <</if>><</if>> <<if visited ("Geolocation") is 0>> <<display "royalhotel">> Four people stand outside the Royal Hotel, a man, two women and a girl. One woman is holding a [[newspaper]]. <</if>>

<<if visited("Geolocation") is 1>> <<if approxEqual($Location.latitude, $ninetytwoBroadwaylat) and approxEqual($Location.longitude, $ninetytwoBroadwaylong)>> $buildings++ <<display "92Broadway">> Ninety-two Broadway<</if>> <<if approxEqual($Location.latitude, $seventyfourBroadwaylat) and approxEqual($Location.longitude, $seventyfourBroadwaylong)>> $buildings++ <<display "74Broadway">> Seventy-four Broadway.<</if>> <<if approxEqual($Location.latitude, $eightysixBroadwaylat) and approxEqual($Location.longitude, $eightysixBroadwaylong)>> $buildings++ <<display "86Broadway">> Eighty-six Broadway. <</if>> The streets are a buzz with stories of Captain Harry Baker's great telescopes. You hear his daughter, Euphemia, is a keen understudy and you would love to hear her story. The Dunolly & Bet Bet Express was printed next to where the [[Dunolly Post Office]] now stands and you're sure you will find some more information there. There are three buildings to find. Have you found them all? Hint: all buildings are on this block and this side of the road. $buildings /3 Buildings found. [[Look for Buildings|wander]]<</if>> <<if visited("Geolocation") is 0>> <<display "74Broadway">> <<display "86Broadway">> <<display "92Broadway">> The streets are a buzz with stories of Captain Harry Baker's great telescopes. You hear his daughter, Euphemia, is a keen understudy and you would love to hear her story. The Dunolly & Bet Bet Express was printed next to where the [[Dunolly Post Office]] now stands and you're sure you will find some more information there. <</if>>

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<<if visited ("Women Puddlers") is 1>> You've discovered the Women Puddlers!<<set $women++>><</if>> Women discovered: $women <<display "puddlersketch">> Memorial artworks by Grace Cooper On 27th March 1857 Victoria held its first census as a separate colony. Although individual names were not recorded, the information regarding population and occupation was obtained to show just how much Victoria had developed since the start of the gold rushes. Victoria’s total population was 410,766 of which 5,743 lived in Dunolly. Six months earlier at the height of the Dunolly Rush, one tenth of Victoria’s population was living there. <<display "tent">> From the census we learn that the vast majority of people on the goldfields dwelt in tents or similar habitations of flimsy construction. Dunolly did not have a single brick building. For every female in Dunolly and district there were three males. For adults the ration would be even worse as the census figures include children. As might be expected the vast majority of the workforce were employed in looking for gold. What is interesting is that there were six women who gave their occupation as mining. One of these was a woman who was involved in alluvial mining at Inkerman and another was working a puddler at Moliagul. Working a puddler can be a hard physical occupation and requires the capital to erect the puddling machine, build a dam and have a horse to run it. <<display "horse">> <<display "puddler">> <<display "horseflip">> These women were required to have Miner’s Rights but the files of these were all destroyed. Electoral rolls of the district were composed that consisted predominantly of Miner’s Right holders but these electoral rolls only included males. The names of these pioneering women have been lost to the current generation. [[Leave the museum]]

This is where the artworks you have discovered will be saved.

<<display "intro">> Welcome Stranger! The Dunolly Womens Historical Art Trail is set in the small central Victorian town of Dunolly. Click on the links and follow the prompts searching for different locations in Broadway, the main street of Dunolly, to unlock the stories of six remarkable Gold Rush era women from the area and artworks from five modern Victorian artists memorialising them. Adventure forth from [[Dunolly Museum|Geolocation]]. I just want to take it easy. [[Guide me along the Art Trail|guided]] Good luck! Make sure you have location services turned on or enter the password to turn Geolocation off. <<set _pw = "thankyou">> @@#info;@@ <<textbox "_input" "">>\ <<button "Check Password">> <<if _input is _pw>> <<goto "Welcome Stranger!">> <<else>> <<replace "#info">>Wrong Password<</replace>> <<timed 2s>> <<replace "#info">><</replace>> <</timed>> <</if>> <</button>>

Louise 'Rockabilby' Cooper rockabilby987@gmail.com Womens Stories Collected: $women <<if visited ("guided") is 1>> [[Dunolly Museum|Women Puddlers]] [[Gold and Grain Cafe]] [[The Old Bendigo Hotel]] [[The Royal Hotel]] [[Bell's General Store]] (now known as Dunolly Bistro & Bar) [[Daly St]]<</if>> <<if visited("guided") is 0>> <<if visited ("Read a newspaper") is 1>> <<if visited ("Euphemia") is 0>>[[Bell's General Store]]<</if>> <<if visited ("Eliza") is 0>>[[Daly St]]<</if>> <</if>> <<if visited ("Leave the museum") is 1>> <<if visited ("Women Puddlers") is 0>>[[Dunolly Museum|Women Puddlers]]<</if>> <<if visited ("Who was Madame Charpiot?") is 0>>[[Gold and Grain Cafe]]<</if>> <<if visited ("Miss Emily Glyndon") is 0>>[[The Old Bendigo Hotel]] <</if>> <<if visited ("Waif Wander") is 0>>[[The Royal Hotel]]<</if>> [[Look At Your Map]]<</if>><</if>> [[View Your Album]]

<<if visited("Euphemia") is 1>>You've discovered Euphemia Baker!<<set $women++>><</if>> <<display "Baker">> memorial artwork by Claire Clarke Euphemia Baker was born in Collingwood on 5th June 1853 to Henry and Euphemia Baker. They had only just arrived in Victoria and soon after her birth they left for the goldfields at Bendigo. They travelled from there to other rushes arriving in Moliagul in 1856. After a few years here they moved to Old Dunolly, now known as Goldsborough. Euphemia was amongst the first to attend the Inkerman School when it opened in 1860. Euphemia then went on to Melbourne where she attended the private Vieusseux Ladies College in Brighton. In 1872, aged 19, Euphemia Baker became the first female in Victoria to pass the Matriculation Examination. Although she qualified to work in the Public Service, Euphemia became a schoolteacher. She taught at Ballarat. Henry Evans Baker, her father, had formed the Goldsborough Gold Mining Company to develop the rich Bealiba Reef. Within a few years he had become very well off and sold his interest in the mine. He then followed his passion of astronomy. In 1886, Henry Evans Baker became the meteorologist at the Ballarat Observatory. During the night, after she had finished work, Euphemia became his assistant. When Henry Evans Baker died in 1890, Euphemia took over his position doing meteorological reports, cloud observations and routine observatory work. All this was accomplished whilst maintaining her professional day job as a schoolteacher. Euphemia Baker dedicated her life to her work, she never married and died in Ballarat on 19th October 1909 aged 56.

<<if visited("Eliza") is 1>>You've discovered Eliza Ellen Russell! <<set $women++>> <<display "ElizaRussell">><</if>> memorial artwork by Keira Long Eliza Ellen Russell was born in Dunolly on 20th January 1861 to Henry and Sally Russell. He was a carpenter who lived at the corner of Broadway and Russell St, Dunolly (now the corner of Broadway and Daly St). Eliza was the youngest of thirteen children and about 1863 the family shifted to a larger house at the corner of Lawrence and Tweeddale Streets. Her father died when she was ten years old. When she was a young woman, Eliza shifted to Carlton and worked as a seamstress in her brother-in-law’s tent factory. When the Australian Colonies Federated in 1901 a competition was held to design a flag for Australia. Of the many varied entries, several that were almost identical were chosen as the winning design. Eliza Russell’s nephew, the fourteen year old Ivor Evans, submitted one of these winning patterns. He asked his aunty, Eliza Russell, to sew together what became the first copy of what we now know as the Australian national flag. Eliza never married and died in Carlton in 1910 aged 49.

Your Album will fill with artworks and women's stories as you discover them. You have discovered $women of 6 women. <<if visited ("Waif Wander") is 1>><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KElF1c5aYWI" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> [[Waif Wander]] A.K.A Mary Helena Fortune is one of Australia's most prolific authors of all time, she also pioneered writing detective stories from the detective's perspective and using real life details in her stories. Animation by Louise Cooper.<</if>> <<if visited ("Who was Madame Charpiot?") is 1>><<display "madam">> [[Madam Charpiot|Who was Madame Charpiot?]] was a fearless early goldfields photographer. Animation by Lauren Starr.<</if>> <<if visited ("Women Puddlers") is 1>><<display "puddlersketch">> <<display "horse">><<display "puddler">><<display "horseflip">> In the [[1857 Victorian Census|Women Puddlers]], six women were recorded as working in mining near Dunolly. One of these was a woman who was involved in alluvial mining at Inkerman and another was working a puddler at Moliagul. Working a puddler can be a hard physical occupation and requires the capital to erect the puddling machine, build a dam and have a horse to run it. Artwork by Grace Cooper<</if>> <<if visited ("Euphemia") is 1>><<display "Baker">> [[Euphemia Baker|Euphemia]] was the first female to pass the matriculation exam in Victoria. She went on to become a school teacher and ran the Ballarat Observatory after her father's death. Artwork by Claire Clarke.<</if>> <<if visited ("Eliza") is 1>> <<display "ElizaRussell">> [[Eliza Ellen Russell|Eliza]] was the seamstress who sewed the first Australian national flag. Artwork by Keira Long.<</if>> <<if visited ("Miss Emily Glyndon") is 1>><<display "glyndon">> [[Miss Emily Glyndon]] was an actress and theatre director. She travelled the world educating people on the benefits of women being allowed to wear pants. Artwork by Louise Cooper. Original photo inside Bendigo Hotel by Phillip Ashton.<</if>>

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