Life Summary

Name	Matilda Emilie Bertha McNamara
Alternative Names	Matilda Kalkstein Matilda Bredt
Born	28 September, 1853 Poznan, Poland
Died	1 August, 1931 (aged 77) North Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Cause of Death	pneumonia
Cultural Heritage	German Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.
Related Entries	[View as tree] McNamara, William Henry (husband) Lang, Jack (son-in-law) Pankhurst, Adela Constantia (friend) O'Sullivan, Christopher Michael (acquaintance)
Occupation or Descriptor *	socialist (1888-1892) Victoria, Australia travelling sales personnel (1888-1888) Victoria, Australia boarding house operator (1892-1931) New South Wales, Australia bookseller (1892-1929) New South Wales, Australia feminist (1892-1931) New South Wales, Australia pamphleteer (1892-1931) New South Wales, Australia socialist (1892-1931) New South Wales, Australia women's activist (1892-1931) New South Wales, Australia women's suffragist (1892-1902) New South Wales, Australia
Legacies *	Bertha McNamara Hostel (Sydney) (eponym)
Key Organisations *	Labor Women's Central Organising Committee (NSW) (founder) Social Democratic Federation of Australasia (member, 1892-1899) Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales (member, 1892-1899)
Political Activism *	ALP (NSW) (member) anti-conscriptionist (activist, 1916-1917)

* Dates are approximate

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