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For fifty years a manuscript written by the late Dr C.N. Button lay in a trunk belonging to his daughter. Eventually Muriel Mathers was enticed to read her father's autobiography and find out more about the man who died when she was a girl. Dr Button was a respected preacher in Ballarat, and Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in 1941 and 1942. He was a socially committed and energetic man. Years later Muriel displayed these same characteristics. In Melbourne she would establish Freelance Work for Women, and become active in feminist circles of the 1970s. An uncanny set of similarities links the lives of the father and daughter. Were these due to chance? Or genetic? To tease out the answers to such questions Muriel began to write her own story. Is she really a chip off the old block?