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Kirk, Maria (1855-1928)

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Australian Women's Register

Marie Kirk was a leading figure in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union both in Victoria and nationally and helped to establish the Victorian Union in 1887. She held numerous executive positions in the organisation. She was also a strong supporter of women's rights, a member of the Victorian Women's Franchise League, and helped to establish the National Council of Women of Victoria in 1902. She supported equal pay, raising the age of consent for girls, and also took a keen interest in the welfare of women prisoners and in the kindergarten movement.

Kirk (nee Sutton) was born in London in 1855 and married Frank Kirk (an ironmonger and later bootmaker) in 1878. Reared as a Quaker, she worked as a missionary in London's 'slums' and became active in the British Women's Temperance Association. In 1886 she represented this group at a meeting held in Toronto to organise the World Woman's Christian Temperance Union. She moved to Victoria that same year.

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Australian Women's Register

  1. Temperate Feminists: Marie Kirk and the WCTU
    Hyslop, Anthea
    [1985]
    Published: Penguin, Melbourne
  2. 1891 Women's Suffrage Petition
    Parliament of Victoria
    Published: Parliament of Victoria
  3. Australian Dictionary of Biography Online
    Australian National University
    [2006]
  4. The White Ribbon Signal: Official Organ of the Woman's Temperance Union of Victoria
    [1891-1931]
    Published: The Union, Melbourne
  5. 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology
    Radi, Heather
    [1988]
    Published: Women's Redress Press, Sydney
  6. Women's Suffrage Petition (Monster Petition)
    [1891]
    Scroll of nearly 30,000 signatures of Victorian women in favour of female suffrage, gathered in 1891.
    260 m, 1 Scroll
    Public Record Office Victoria
    VPRS 3253/P0, Unit 851
  7. Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Victoria
    [1887 - 1999]
    Minute books; minute books from various Victorian branches; sample books; National WCTU Department of Natural Fruit Juices and Wine Production books; membership registers; memorabilia; pamphlets; World Women's Christian Temperance Union reports; certificates; budget reports; annual convention reports; enrolment registers; summary of talks; cash books; photographs; models; publications; bound copies of 'The White Ribbon Signal', the official organ of the WCTU of Australia.
    17 m, 91 archives boxes
    The University of Melbourne Archives
    101/85

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