| Record Number |
18652 |
| Location |
Bookstack 331.88 TAY |
| Author |
Taylor, Beatrice Mary1893-1982 |
| Title |
Beatrice Taylor interview. [Electronic resource] |
| Collation |
1 digital sound recording (12 mins.) + 1 transcript |
| General Note |
Date of interview: unknown. |
| Beatrice Taylor was awarded Life Membership of the NSW Teachers Federation in 1958. "In recognition of her Federation service, Annual Conference in 1958 conferred on her Honorary Life Membership." -- NSWTF Annual Report 1959, page 41. |
| Original recording audio-cassette, has logo AMWSU. Enquiry to AMWSU in 2017: provenance unknown to AMWSU, no record or interview. Interview attributed to Beatrice Taylor on basis of "Interview with Beatrice Taylor" written on audio-cassette and correspondence to known life events particularly that "Aged 17 when she began teaching in the infants section of Parramatta District School in 1911." -- Australian Dictionary of Biography. |
| Transcript and digital sound file available in library. |
| Miss B. Taylor was listed in the NSW Teachers Federation annual report for 1947-1950 as a member of Executive. In NSW Public School Teachers Federation annual report for 1927-1928 Miss Taylor is listed among Executive members (is this Miss Beatrice Taylor?) |
| Portrait from Education, Volume 25 No. 11 September 23 1944 page 308. Link to journal issue below. |
| "[Marjorie Taylor obituary, Prominent Federation Pioneer Passes], she was a sister of President Don Taylor and of Beatrice Taylor, another very distinguished Federationist." -- Education Vol. 42 No. 10, August 16, 1961, page 6. |
| "Beatrice Taylor belongs to a remarkable federation family. Her brother Don was deputy president of the federation for 10 years and president for nine. Her sister, Marjorie, was an active member for some years secretary of the old Assistants Association, which included both men and women teachers. Another sister, Annie Burns, was also an active federationist." -- Education Vol. 56 No. 21 3 December 1975, page 417. |
| Summary Note |
Beatrice Taylor describes her experience in 1911 of starting teaching at Parramatta Infants, aged 17 years. She received 6 weeks training. Of her first appointment she said: “ … the children were absolutely gorgeous. I can name them. I can see them all so plainly. I really enjoyed teaching but it was old gallery seats and there was another teacher in the room with me. I was talking against another teacher all day. That was one of the worst features and I realised very, very deeply that it was very important to have good conditions under which to work. It was as important as a good salary. ” |
| "In mid-June they decided to separate the rooms and give each teacher a room but they only put glass partitions in so you didn’t get away from another teacher then because there was always a teacher watching you through a glass partition. So while they were putting the glass partitions in, they put me in an open weather shed to teach until mid-winter and I remember the old teacher with whom I'd been teaching, she was also put in the weather shed. It was bitterly cold and the floor of the weather shed was raved(?) and the boards were all uneven with cracks between them and I remember the teacher saying to the headmaster, Mr Campley, when he came up to see how we were getting on, she said, “You stand there and see how you'd like the wind blowing up your trousers”. I didn’t know where her trousers were because the skirts were long because we didn’t wear slacks or anything like that but I managed to get congestion of the lungs and she got influenza. But if you hadn't been teaching - I think the period was three months you had no sick leave – so for that period I had congestion of the lungs, I got no salary because I hadn't been teaching long enough to entitle me to a salary." - Transcript, p. 3. |
| Terms of use |
Available in library. Contact library for access. |
| Subject |
New South Wales Teachers Federation -- History |
| Teachers -- New South Wales -- -- Political activity -- Interviews |
| Women teachers |
| Women in the New South Wales Teachers Federation |
| Added Corporate Name |
New South Wales Teachers Federation |
| Internet Site |
Miss Beatrice Taylor, Education 1944 |
| See Also |
Prominent Federation pioneer passes [Marjorie Taylor] |
| See Also |
Defending civil and professional rights Beatrice Taylor, Education Vol. 56 No. 21 3 December 1975, page 417. |
