Section of survey for married women graduates, part of
MacKenzie's research for Women of Australia, undated

Norman Ian MacKenzie was born in London in 1921. He was a professor of political and social science at the University of Sussex, England, circa 1963-83. He married Jeanne Sampson, writer and manuscripts editor, in 1945, and they had two daughters. With Jeanne's assistance he wrote and edited several biographies of H.G. Wells, Charles Dickens, Beatrice Webb, and others. Norman was commissioned by Social Science Research Council of Australia in 1959 to conduct two-year pioneering survey of the status and social and political roles of women in Australia, published as Women in Australia (1962). Subsequent and revised editions are entitled Women in Society. In 1979 Jeanne MacKenzie published A Victorian Courtship: The Story of Beatrice Potter and Sidney Webb.