Marguerite Dale, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian feminist and playwright
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Place of Birth: Boorowa, New South Wales, Australia
About Marguerite Dale
- Marguerite Ludovia Dale (22 October 1883 – 13 May 1963) was an Australian playwright and feminist. The daughter of Charles Ludovia Hume and his wife Celia Annie Maltby, she was born Marguerite Ludovia Hume in Boorowa.
- Her great-uncle was the explorer, Hamilton Hume.
- She was educated at home by governesses and then attended Ascham School in Sydney.
- Following her mother's death in 1904, she ran the family household.
- In 1907, she married George Samuel Evans Dale(d.1944), a solicitor; the couple lived in Chatswood and had two daughters.Dale campaigned for the early closing of hotels which was introduced in 1916 and helped lobby for the Women's Legal Status Act of 1918.
- She was active in the Women's Reform League of New South Wales and became president of the league in 1923.
- She was active in the Workers' Educational Association, the National Council of Women of Australia and the Australian Federation of Women's Societies for Equal Citizenship.
- In 1922, she was named an alternate delegate to the League of Nations and addressed the assembly on white slavery.
- Around 1924, she spent 18 months in a sanatorium in Geneva due to poor health.In 1935, she became the first Australian woman to take a commercial air flight to London.She died in Neutral Bay at the age of 79.
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