About Bea Miles
Beatrice Miles was an Australian eccentric and bohemian rebel. Described as Sydney's "iconic eccentric", she was known for her contentious relationships with the city's taxi drivers and for her ability to quote any passage from Shakespeare for money. Miles also enrolled in medicine, which was unusual for women at that time, but she contracted encephalitis lethargica in her first year. Miles and her brother John joined the far-right Australia First Movement in 1941, at which time she gave an address in Elizabeth Bay on her membership application.
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