Sunday 11 August 2019
St Kilda Army and Navy Club
Members and guests attended a presentation by Sue Ingleton on her book Making Trouble: Harriet E. Dick & Alice C. Moon.
The book is an "imagined history" of Harriet Elphinstone Dick and Alice Caroline Moon, two English women who immigrated to Melbourne in 1875. The presentation explored their promotion of swimming and physical strength for women, their involvement in commercial gymnasiums, and the role of Hegarty's Railway Baths and Kenny's Baths in their lives in Melbourne.
The presentation also examined how Harriet and Alice challenged contemporary views about women, exercise and dress, and addressed questions about their lives, relationship, move to Sydney and the circumstances surrounding Alice's death.
Speaker
Sue Ingleton is an actor, director, stand-up comedian and writer.
She is the author of Making Trouble: Harriet E. Dick & Alice C. Moon and spoke about her research into the lives of Harriet Dick and Alice Moon and the process of reconstructing their history from limited surviving records.
Copies of the book were available for purchase at the event.