A Mantle of Light

Name: A Mantle of Light
Brand: Black Inc
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The first 100 years of Canberra Girls Grammar School

By: Nichole Overall

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Hardcover | 26 October 2026

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In the early decades of the 1900s, Canberra was founded as the nation's capital - and within it, a girls' school, opened by the Community of the Sisters of the Church, led by Sister Hilda, in a borrowed rectory with ten students and a steadfast belief in the impact of education for women.

For a century, Canberra and its Girls Grammar School have grown in step - through economic depression, war and bushfire, through the postwar boom that transformed a small administrative town into a vibrant capital, and through decades of expansion, reinvention and ambition. As Canberra transformed, so did CGGS, emerging from each challenge with deepened purpose. For a century its classrooms have shaped dreamers, doers and disrupters, women who have carried the School's founding spirit out to every corner of the globe.

A Mantle of Light is the story of the first 100 years of CGGS: the visionaries who built it, the communities who sustained it and the generations of Grammarians who grew up within its walls. At its heart, this is a story about what becomes possible when girls are given the freedom to flourish.

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