Bibliography

For additional information on Prime Ministers’ wives, the following books may be helpful.

Booker, Malcolm, The great professional—A study of W.M Hughes, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Sydney, 1980

Day, David, Chifley, Harper Collins Publishers, Sydney, 2001

Frame, Tom, The life and death of Harold Holt, Allen and Unwin, New South Wales, 2005

Hancock, Ian, John Gorton—he did it his way, Hodder Headline Australia Pty Ltd, Sydney, 2002

Hawke, Hazel, My own life—An autobiography, The Text Publishing Company, Melbourne, 1992

Hindhaugh, Christina, Life wasn’t meant to be easy—Tamie Fraser in Canberra, Lothian Publishing Company, Melbourne, 1986

Holt, Zara, My life and Harry—An autobiography, The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, Melbourne, 1968

Langmore, Di, Prime Ministers’ Wives—The public and private lives of ten Australian women, McPhee Gribble, Ringwood Victoria, 1992

Lyons, Dame Enid, My life—The illustrated autobiography of Dame Enid Lyons, Joseph Swanson Wilkinson, Melbourne, year unknown

Lyons, Dame Enid, So we take comfort, Heinmann, Melbourne, 1965

Lyons, Dame Enid, The old haggis, Heinemann, Melbourne, 1969

Lyons, Dame Enid, Among the carrion crows, Rigby Ltd, Adelaide, 1972

McMinn, W.G, George Reid, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1989.

Page, Earle, Truant Surgeon—The inside story of forty years of Australian political life, Angus and Robertson Ltd, Sydney, 1963

Pieters-Hawke, Sue and Flynn, Hazel, Hazel’s journey—A personal experience of Alzheimer’s, Pan MacMillan Australia, Sydney, 2004

Reid, Alan, The Gorton Experiment—The fall of John Grey Gorton, Shakespeare Head Press, Sydney, 1971

Rickard, John, A Family Romance—The Deakins at home, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1996

Trengove, Alan, John Grey Gorton—An informal biography, Cassell Australia, Melbourne, 1969

Whitlam, Margaret, My Day, Collins, Sydney, 1974

Whitlam, Margaret, My Other World, Allen and Unwin, New South Wales, 2001

James and Sarah Scullin.
James and Sarah Scullin. Scullin was Prime Minister from 1929–32. Image courtesy of the Herald and Weekly Times.

The exhibition, Mrs Prime Minister: Public Image, Private Lives was first shown at the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House in 2005.

More information is available on the exhibitions page.