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Portrait of Lucinda Elizabeth Gullett
Berthe Mouchette, ca.1850-19201884
State Library Victoria
Melbourne, Australia
Lucinda Gullett was a journalist who wrote for 'The Australasian' and 'Daily Telegraph', under the adopted name 'Humming Bee'. She is known to have been responsible for 'The Lady's Column' from 1880. She played a public role as a journalist, encouraging other women to take up journalism as a career.
A feminist with literary and musical interests, she created a furore when she expressed critical views on marriage. She was a member of the Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales and a committee member of the Women's Literary Society.
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- Title: Portrait of Lucinda Elizabeth Gullett
- Creator: Berthe Mouchette, ca.1850-1920
- Date: 1884
- Provenance: Gift of Mr John Drury under the Cultural Gifts Program, 2009.
- Rights: This work is out of copyright. No copyright restrictions apply.
- lithograph: Painting
- View more information about this image in the State Library Victoria catalogue: http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:SLV_VOYAGER1982111
- View a full-size version of this image: http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/73918
- Physical dimensions: 151.5 x 96.0 cm. (sight), 169.4 x 113.8 cm. (frame)
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- A.E. Ferris: Berthe Mouchette (ca. 1850–1920) and her sister Marie Lion arrived in Melbourne from France in 1881. The widow of the Deputy Chancellor of the French Consulate, she ran the girls' boarding school Oberwyl with her sister, and they were founders of Alliance Francais, Melbourne, which had its initial meetings at Oberwyl. Mouchette was a significant artist, who is said to have exhibited at the Paris Salon between 1878 and 1881. She had two studios in Melbourne at different times.
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