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Summary
Born in Victoria; father, Herbert Timothy Wright, mother, Alice Jane Griffiths Perry; their voyage to Western Australia on the Lusitania; their home in St George's Terrace and later in Claremont; school life; Claremont Teachers College; student social life; lectures at the University of Western Australia; teaching at Cottesloe School and Princess May Girls' School; her transfer to Perth Girls School in 1924; curriculum and the development of the academic and commercial courses; Girdlestone and Perth Girls'; uniforms and discipline.
