Author: ZAINU'DDIN, AILSA G THOMSON.
Title: They Dreamt Of A School. A centenary history of Methodist Ladies' College Kew 1882 - 1982.
Description: First Edition; Thick Med. 8vo; pp. xxiii, 469; illustrated endpapers, frontispiece, profusely illustrated throughout, list of abbreviations, notes, bibliography, acknowledgements, index, bound in green original cloth, title lettered in silver on spine, silver stamped decoration on upper board, dustjacket, a fine copy. Melbourne; Hyland House; 1982. The centenary history of one of Australia's premier girls' schools, the book recreates through the eyes of those who were there, what is was like to be part of the school, making and transmitting its traditions. Integral to this book are the themes of sex equality, teachers' salaries,, the balance between Christianity and education and the vexed issue of State aid to private schools.

Keywords: Australian local Victorian Victoria school history Methodist Ladies' College Kew MLC Melbourne girls schools women education private