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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2013-05-01 human Tom Hyde updated 2024-10-22 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P005382b.htm person Booth Angela Elizabeth Josephine AACR2 27 October 1869 5 September 1954 Place of Birth Liverpool, Lancashire, England Place of Death Sandringham, Victoria, Australia Eugenist Angela Booth migrated to Australian in 1897 and settled with her husband, James Booth, in Broken Hill. She joined the Women's Political Association and Liberal Education Society and was a vocal supporter for the need for women to play an active role in public life. She supported conscription and viewed the war as a way to rebuild a healthier post-war society, free of venereal disease. She proposed for the eradication of venereal disease through campaigning for the elimination of prostitution and for planned birth of healthy children. At the forefront she envisioned women as taking responsibility for a new, healthier society. Politically conservative, she sought Nationalist support for State parliament in 1929 but was unsuccessful in winning the Legislative Assembly seat of Brighton. Her views radicalised during the Great Depression and she argued that legislation should be developed to sterilise the 'unfit'. Along with her husband she founded the Eugenics Society of Victoria and was a major supporter of sterilisation. Eugenics Society of Victoria (1936 - 1961)

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 Booth, Angela Elizabeth Josephine (18691027-19540905)

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 'Booth, Angela Elizabeth Josephine', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Booth, Angela Elizabeth Josephine Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Booth, Angela Elizabeth Josephine (1869-1954), eugenicist McBurnie, Grant Booth, Angela Elizabeth Josephine (1869-1954), eugenicist Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1993 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 13: 1940 - 1980 A-De John Ritchie 216-217 Victoria Eugenics Society Wellcome Collection Victoria Eugenics Society SA/EUG/E.3 1914 - 1939 A set of 113 imaged pages dating 1914-1915 (Victorian Eugenics Society), 1925-1926 (Office of the Agent-General for Victoria) and 1937-1939 (Eugenics Society of Victoria). In the 1914-1915 correspondence ( 6 pages) of Carlotta Greenshields (37 Mary Street, Glenferrie) and W. Ernest Jones (Inspector-General of the Insane for Victoria) with the Sybil Gotto of the Eugenics Education Society, it is flagged that an attempt was made to establish an eugenics society in Victoria with Professor Bladwin Spencer as president. The initiative failed due to Bladwin Spencer being already overloaded and the intervention of the World War. Other people mentioned in this correspondence include J.C. Eldridge of Sydney and a Mr Macfie (5 Elm Grove, Armadale). The 1925-1926 correspondence (2 pages) concerns information about the Marriage Acts in Victoria. The 1937-1939 correspondence (105 pages) concerns the creation of the Eugenics Society of Victoria in 1936 and its relationship with the Eugenics Society (London). The principle correspondent is Dr Victor Hugo Wallace (Secretary, Eugenics Society of Victoria). Other include: Professor W.E. Agar, Dr C.P. Blacker (General Secretary, The Eugenics Society); Lord Horder; Mrs E.E. Potton; Dr Mennell; Geoffery Kaye (14 Collins Street Melbourne); Colin Clark (Bureau of Industry, Brisbane, Queensland); Clinton F. Chance. Includes publications of the Eugenics Society of Victoria including the "Syllabus of Lectures" for 1937, 1938 and 1939 which includes presentations by: Colin Clark; Dr W. Bryden; Dr Reg. S Ellery; Dr V.H. Wallace; Professor W.E. Agar; Dr Fritz Duras; Mrs Angela Booth; Dr P.M. Bachelard, Rev. William Bottomley; Dr C. Farran-Ridge; Dr John Dale; Dr K.S. Cunningham; and Dr Anita Muhl. Included is: "Publication No. 1" of the Eugenics Society of Victoria, 'Voluntary Sterilization for Human Betterment' by Mrs Angela Booth, July 1938; and the Annual Report 1939 which reports on donations and the establishment of a "Consultative Council" and the financial report from C. Mitchell Tovell, Honorary Treasurer. In the letterhead from 1939 the Consultative Council members are: Professor G.S. Browne; Dr K.S. Cunningham; Dr John Dale; Judge Foster; Mr J.D.G. Medley, M.A.; Sir David Rivett; and Dr Georgina Sweet. 1 file Digitised paper records,