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11 Facts About Ellen Malos

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Ellen Malos was an Australian-British scholar and activist associated with Bristol Women's Aid, and a key figure in Bristol's Women's Liberation Movement.

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Ellen Malos's father was a longtime socialist, glazier and decorator, and her mother had made knitwear.

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Ellen Malos committed to teach in order to obtain a scholarship.

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Ellen Malos wrote a prize-winning thesis about the novelist Patrick White.

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Ellen Malos had to take up supply teaching as she was discriminated against because she was married.

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Ellen Malos's husband lost his job because he was a socialist.

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Ellen Malos studied for a master's degree and he completed his doctorate.

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8.

Ellen Malos started a doctorate but had to abandon it as her supervisor that it unbelievable that a woman would try and get a Ph.

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Ellen Malos recalled how in 1971 a man who spoke at a Women's Liberation Movement meeting of "fighting for Women's Liberation all my life", while condemning lesbians, was dragged off the platform.

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In 1990, Gill Hague and Ellen Malos founded a Violence Against Women Research Group.

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Ellen Malos died at home on 22 August 2023, at the age of 85.