Miriam Joyce Dixson (born 1930) is an Australian social historian and the author of The Real Matilda: Woman and Identity in Australia 1788 to 1975.
[3] She graduated from the University of Melbourne with a BA in history in 1950 and an MA from the same university in 1957 for her thesis, The strike of waterside workers in Australian ports, 1928, and the lockout of coal miners on the northern coalfield of New South Wales, 1929-30.
[4] She was awarded a PhD in May 1966 by the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University for her thesis, Reformists and revolutionaries: An interpretation of the relations between the Socialists and the mass labor organisations in New South Wales 1919-27, with special reference to Sydney.
[2] In 1976, Penguin published The Real Matilda: Woman and Identity in Australia 1788 to 1975.
[2] As one writer commented, "in .. the Australian context, you can't discuss women in history as though The Real Matilda, or Damned Whores And God's Police, had never been written.