phoenix entertainment: Woman of South Africa 1935

The Woman of South Africa 1935 publication is a historical, educational and industrial encyclopedia and social directory of the Woman of the Sub Continent. Search the over 1700 biographies of these prominent women and find out about their social standing. This collection provides details on their maiden name, whom they married, where they were educated, what societies or clubs they belonged to as well as their hobbies and there home address. Search either from our main search page or browse through the biographies one by one.

Editorial Note extracted from the publication

As perusal of ??Women of South Africa? will show, the names of one or two prominent women do not appear in its pages, and for these omissions the indulgence of the reader is asked, owing to the obvious difficulty of compiling a work of this description which shall be complete in every detail.
It is a pleasant duty to place on record the cordial co-operation afforded the movement by Her Excellency Viscountess Gladstone (to whom the work is inscribed), to the distinguished patrons whose names appear elsewhere in the volume and to the Mayoresses and other ladies who have helped to make ? Women of South Africa? a publication of national standing and world-wide interest, and one which will be a lasting memorial of the good work accomplished in public and private life by the women of our country.
A number of articles written be prominent women will be found in alphabetical order at the end of the book, and these, penned as they are by competent authorities, will, it is hoped, give a fair insight into the aims and objects of some of the many institutions in which our women are interesting themselves.
Thanks are due to Miss Marian Maxwell, of Johannesburg, for the photograph of Viscountess Gladstone, which appears as a frontispiece, and for other photographs reproduced in this volume, also to Messrs. Akkersdyk (Cape Town) ; Angus (Middlebrook Studio, Kimberley) ; Carrick Bros. (King William?s Town) ; Deale (Bloemfontein) ; A. L. Gilham (Pretoria) ; Hepburn & Jeans (Grahamstown) ; H. Bertram Hewson (Romney Studio, Port Elizabeth) ; Jakins & Co. (East London) ; A. Lionel Myers (Burlington studio, Salisbury, Rhodesia) ; W. Watson Robertson (Pietermaritzburg) ; W. H. Thomas (Bower Studio, Durban), and other photographers. Mention must also be made of kind assistance courteously rendered by Mr. F. Holderness Gale, Editor of ?S.A. Lady?s Pictorial,? Cape Town.
The Editor.
?Shut not your doors to me, proud libraries
For that which was lacking on your well-filled shelves,
Yet needed most, I bring
Forth from the war emerging, a book I have made,
The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything;
A book separate, not link?d with the rest nor felt by the intellect.
But you, ye untold latencies, will thrill to every page
by Walt Whitman

Preface

A few years ago the production of a volume dealing solely from cover to cover with biographical matter concerning women would have been deemed an unnecessary labour and one in which small interest would be evinced. Nowadays. however, with the ever-increasing scope afforded the energies of womenkind; woman is taking her full share in the affairs of nations. In no little degree have the women of South Africa contributed towards the consummation of Union and the present state of prosperity and amity existing throughout the sub-continent.
The affairs of South Africa have loomed large in the eyes of the world for rather more than a decade, and it is only fitting that the mothers, wives and daughters of the South African Nation should have at least the tardy and wholly insufficient recognition given by these pages.
Owing to the fact that the photos have been reproduced on as large a scale aas possible, it has not been found practicable to print the biographies in strict alphabetical order and for this reason an Index has been added to the volume, and this will afford ready reference to its contents.
The presentation of a copy of ? Women of South Africa? to Her Gracious Majesty Queen Mary will in every way enhance the value of the publication, which will without doubt, be of especial interest to Her Majesty, to whom many of the ladies whose photographs and biographies appear have been presented,? either at the English Court or during the visit of ?Their Majesties the King and Queen (then T.R.H. the Duke and Duchess of York) to these shores in 1901.
The Publishers
Cape Town, South Africa 1913.
To Viscountess Gladstone whose warm and sympathetic interest in The Women of South Africa is widely known and greatly appreciated.
This Volume (by Special Permission of Her Excellency)? is Gratefully Inscribed.
Women of South Africa
A Historical, Educational & Industrial Encyclopedia & Social Directory of Women of the Sub Continent.
Published in the Year of our Lord Nineteen Hundren and Thirteen.
Edited and Compiled by Thos. H. Lewis for the publishers LE QUESNE & HOOTON-SMITH, Cape Town South Africa.