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The Charlotte Project            2022-2023

 

 

 

Unveiling- December 2023

The Charlotte Project  will erect a life size bronze statue of Charlotte Atkinson (1796 - 1867) in Berrima Marketplace Park. Charlotte Atkinson  was a significant as an author, artist and pioneer in the fight for women's legal rights. In 1841, she published a best selling book called 'A Mothers Offering To Her Children'

which made her the first woman to be published in Australia and at the same time she

defended a landmark case in the Supreme Court of NSW to retain custody of her four children after fleeing her home in Sutton Forest and  violent treatment at the hands of her second husband.

 

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Please view the 'Charlotte Project' tab for more information. 

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