Record ID:
36528671 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
Heading:
Corporate body details:
  • Blind persons
Birth:
  • 18731211
  • Carisbrook (Vic.)
Death:
  • 19471101
  • Windsor (Vic.)
Associated with:
  • Australia Victoria
Lived/located in:
  • Melbourne (Vic.)
Fields of activity:
  • Blind
Occupations:
  • Blind teachers Teachers of the blind Poets Lyricists Authors
  • Community workers
Used for:
  • Aston, Matilda Anne, 1873-1947
Notes:
  • Awarded the King's Medal for Distinguished Citizenry (twice)
  • WWW Australian Dictionary of Biography, 3/11/2016: Matilda Ann Aston (1873-1947), blind writer and teacher, was born on 11 December 1873 at Carisbrook, Victoria; she had defective eyesight from birth. ... she died in Windsor [Victoria] on 1 November 1947.) http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/aston-matilda-ann-5078
  • AustLit website (viewed 14 May 2021) Tilly Aston (Aston was born at Carisbrook, Victoria, and lost her sight by the age of seven. In 1881 she met an itinerant missionary who taught her to read Braille and the following year she left home to attend a school for the blind in St Kilda. She enrolled in an Arts Degree at the University of Melbourne - becoming the first blind student in an Australian tertiary institution - but withdrew due to anxiety and lack of resources. She went on to become a teacher, eventually heading the Victorian school for the Blind and working to establish the Association for the Advancement of the Blind and the Victorian Association of Braille Writers. She wrote popular song lyrics and published five volumes of verse, two serialised novellas, an autobiography and two collections of short stories: The Woolinappers: or Some Tales of the By-ways of Methodism (1905) and Old Timers: Sketches and Word Pictures of the Old Pioneers (1938).' (Source: Colonial Australian Popular Fiction website)) https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A11387
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)130284
  • abv02922367
  • 000001536644
  • (AU-CaAIA)XX95435
  • (VSL)11816460
Cataloguing source:
  • AuCNLKIN eng rda ANL VJTL
Authentication code:
  • anuc