Record ID:
35605406 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • no2001064658
Heading:
Birth:
  • 19191119
  • Bondi (N.S.W.)
Death:
  • 20120317
  • Sydney (N.S.W.)
Associated with:
  • Australia
Occupations:
  • Social worker Prime minister' spouse
Used for:
  • Dovey, Margaret Elaine, 1919-2012
Notes:
  • Born on 19 November 1919, Margaret Whitlam (nee Margaret Elaine Dovey) was the daughter of NSW Supreme Court Judge Wilfred Dovey and first rose to prominence as a champion swimmer, representing Australia in the 1938 Empire Games. She married the former Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam in April 1942. She was an advocate for women's rights and conservation.
  • Her My day, 1974, c1973 t.p. (Margaret Whitlam)
  • Margaret Whitlam interviewed by Susan Mitchell for Matriarchs in the Susan Mitchell collection, 1987
  • LC database, 24 Jan. 2002 (hdg.: Whitlam, Margaret Elaine, 1920- ; usage: Margaret Whitlam)
  • Mitchell, Susan. Margaret Whitlam, 2006 t.p. (Margaret Whitlam) t.p. verso (National Lib. of Australia CIP hdg.: Whitlam, Margaret, 1919- ) p. 4 (b. 1919) p. 5 (Margaret Elaine Dovey)
  • Sydney morning herald WWW site, Mar. 19, 2012 (Margaret Whitlam; b. Margaret Elaine Dovey, Nov. 19, 1919, Bondi [Sydney, N.S.W.]; d. 2012 at 92)
  • Wikipedia, Mar. 22, 2007 (Margaret Elaine Whitlam (nee Dovey), born 19 November 1919 in Sydney, New South Wales, is a prominent Australian personality and the wife of former Prime Minister of Australia Gough Whitlam; author of My day (1974), My other world (2001))
  • Wikipedia website, viewed on 12 September 2019 (Margaret Elaine Whitlam, AO (née Dovey, 19 November 1919 – 17 March 2012) was the wife of Gough Whitlam, the Prime Minister of Australia from 1972 to 1975. She was a social campaigner and published author, and also represented Australia in swimming at the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney.
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)64265
  • 000000608977
  • abv00501052
  • (AU-CaAIA)XX150204
  • (AuPaJTL)241004
  • (VSL)1581153
Cataloguing source:
  • AuCNLKIN eng rda ANL
Authentication code:
  • anuc