Marie Byles
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Marie Beuzeville Byles was an Australian conservationist, pacifist, the first practising female solicitor in New South Wales (NSW), mountaineer, explorer and avid bushwalker, feminist, journalist, and an original member of the Buddhist Society in New South Wales. She was also a travel and non-fiction writer.
Marie Byles at graduation, University of Sydney, c. 1921
The Marie Byles lookout
'Ahimsa', the house that Byles built on the edge of Cheltenham, as it looked in 2015
Cheltenham, New South Wales
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Cheltenham is a suburb in the Northern Sydney region of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Cheltenham is 18 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of Hornsby Shire.
House opposite Cheltenham Station
Suburban home in Cheltenham
A Sam Hood photo of Mrs Surgeons Cheltenham home in 1941
Cheltenham station from the bridge on Cheltenham Road