Glencross, Eleanor (1876-1950)

Field of activity
Feminist, Political candidate and Women's rights activist; housewives' advocate; pro-conscriptionist; temperance advocate; women's activist
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GLENCROSS, ELEANOR (1876-1950), feminist and housewives' advocate, was born on 11 November 1876 at 61 Cleveland Street, Sydney, eldest daughter of Angus Cameron, carpenter, trade unionist and politician, and his native-born wife Eleanor, née Lyons. Educated at Cleveland Street Public School and Miss Somerville's Ladies' College, she gained an early political education assisting her father. She later worked for the Liberal and Reform Association.

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Eleanor Glencross was the second woman to stand for the Victorian Parliament. She unsuccessfully contested the seat of Brighton in 1928 as an Independent Nationalist. She had previously stood for the Federal seat of Henty in 1922 and in 1943 the seat of Martin. A former general secretary, chief speaker and organizer of the Australian Women’s National League in 1920 Glencross became president of the Housewives’ Association of Victoria. In 1923 she became president of the Federated Housewives Association of Australia. During World War II she was prominent in patriotic activities as a member of the State advisory committee of the Commonwealth prices commissioner, the council of the Lord Mayor’s Patriotic and War Fund and of the executive of the Women’s Voluntary National Register.

  • 1911 - 1912 General secretary, chief speaker and organizer of the Australian Women's National League
  • 1912 - 1913 Worked for the People's Liberal Party
  • 1913 Returned to Sydney
  • 1913 Women's organizer for the Liberal Association of New South Wales
  • 14 March 1917 Married grazier Andrew Glencross (d. 1930)
  • 1918 - 1928 Executive member of the National Council of Women of Victoria
  • 1920 President of the Housewives' Association of Victoria
  • 1922 Encouraged the formation of the Victorian Women Citizens' Movement
  • 1922 Stood as an Independent for the Federal seat of Henty
  • 1923 President of the Federated Housewives' Association of Australia
  • 1923 Served on the Victorian royal commission on the high cost of living
  • 1927 One of the first female justices of the peace appointed in Victoria
  • 1927 - 1928 President of the National Council of Women of Victoria
  • 1928 Stood as an Independent for the Victorian seat of Brighton
  • 1928 Presided at the only Melbourne Women's Citizens' Function to entertain the Duchess of York
  • 1928 One of three women members of the Council of British Empire Exhibition, Melbourne
  • December 1928 Appointed to the Commonwealth Film Censorship Board
  • December 1928 Returned to Sydney
  • 1931 Joined the staff of the National Association of New South Wales
  • 1938 Salaried chairwoman of directors of the Housewives' Association of New South Wales
  • 1943 Stood as an Independent for the Federal seat of Martin

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  1. Glencross, Eleanor (1876 - 1950)Australian Dictionary of Biography Online 9 : Glencross, Eleanor (1876 - 1950)
    Foley, Meredith
    [2006]
    Published: Australian National University
    Series: http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090026b.htm
  2. Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections
    Australian Women's Archives Project
    [2008]
    Published: Australian Women's Archives Project
    Series: http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html
  3. Liberal women : Federation to 1949
    Fitzherbert, Margaret
    [2004]
    Published: Federation Press
  4. The Early years of the Housewives Association of Victoria, 1915-1930
    Oldfield, Robert
    [1989]
    Published: Monash University
  5. A Mission to the Home: The Housewives Association, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and Protestant Christianity, 1920-1940Australian Feminist Studies 13 no. 28 October 1998 215-234 : A Mission to the Home: The Housewives Association, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and Protestant Christianity, 1920-1940
    Smart, Judith
    [1998]
  6. Double Time: Women in Victoria - 150 Years
    Lake, Marilyn and Kelly, Farley
    [1985]
    Published: Penguin Books Australia Ltd
  7. Who's who in Australia 1944
    Alexander, Joseph A
    [1944]
    Published: The Herald and Weekly Times
  8. 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology
    Radi, Heather
    [1988]
    Published: Women's Redress Press
  9. Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales: Women’s Voluntary National Register, New South Wales, Records
    Minute book of Executive Committee meetings, 1939-1940, with constitution and newspaper cuttings inserted.
    ML MSS 2025
  10. Private Hands (contact Australian Women's Archive Project): National Council of Women of Victoria (1902 - )
  11. National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection: Papers of Herbert and Ivy Brookes (1869 - 1970)
    Consists of correspondence, notes, diaries, minute books, photographs and cuttings covering every phase of the careers of Herbert and Ivy Brookes. There are papers on the Liberal Party, the People's Liberal Party, the Commonwealth Liberal Party, the Brown Society (1907-1921), the Australian Protective League (1918), the National Union (1917), the Loyalist League (1918), the Board of Trade (1918-1928), the Tariff Board (1922-1928), the Australian Broadcasting Commission (1932-1940), the University of Melbourne (1933-1947), the National Council of Women (1921-1970), the Women's Hospital (1912-1970), the International Club (1932-1958) and the Lady Northcote Permanent Trust Fund (1908-1969). The main correspondents are: Sir Kenneth Bailey, Sir James Barrett, Sir Norman Brookes, S.M. Bruce, W.J. Cleary, Sir Joseph Cook, Bishop Philip Crick, Alfred and Pattie Deakin, Sir Frederic Eggleston, Sir Littleton Groom, Sir Bernard Heinze, W.M. Hughes, Arthur Woodward, Sir Richard Jebb, H. Price, Ina Fisher, Timothy Littleton, J.S. Crow, Philip Kennedy, Sir Walter Leitch, A.H.S. Lucas, Jane McMillan, Professor G.W.L. Marshall-Hall, Sir Walter Massey-Green, Sir Walter Murdoch, George Nicholas, Sir George Pearce, Sir Claude Reading, Staniforth Ricketson, Sir David Rivett, Rohan Rivett, T.E. Ruth, Rev. Charles Strong and Mary Allen.
    MS 1924
  12. National Library of Australia: National Council of Women of Victoria Minutes (1904 - 1960)
    Mfm G 7541-7544

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