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Index of Significant Tasmanian Women

Organisations
Musical groups
Women's service

Listed below are the significant Tasmanian women and organisations that have been researched so far.

Click on each name for a summary, photograph, links and references relating to that significant Tasmanian woman.

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A

Adams, Jessica (Astrologer and Author)

Allport, Curzona (Arts)

Allport, Mary

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B


Benjamin, Phyllis ( Politics)

Best, Amelia (Politics)

Birchall, Ida (Medicine)


Blair, Annie (Suffragist)

Breeton-Braham, Mrs (Suffragist)

Buckingham, Beverley (Bev) (Sport)

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C


Campbell, Emeritus Professor Enid OBE (Academic)

Chauncy, Nan (Author)

Martin, Helene Chung (Journalist and Author)

Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Mary of Denmark

Curtis, Dr Winifred (Botanist)

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D

Davis, Essie (Actress)

Dobson, Emily (Philanthropy)

Donaldson, Mary (Her Majesty, Queen Mary of Denmark)

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F


Fletcher, Jane Ada (Ornithology)

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G


Girardin, Marie Louise Victoire

Grounds, Lucy (Politics)

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H


Heaven, Lynda (Politics)

Her Majesty, Queen Mary of Denmark

Hill, Allanah (Fashion)

Holmes, Edith (Arts)

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J


James, Harriett and Hyland, Margaret (Ireland) (Convict)

Joyce, Eileen (Music)

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K

Kennedy, Doone (Lord Mayor)


Kermode, Georgiana (Suffragist)

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L


Leaky, Caroline Woolmer (Author)

Lodge, Mrs L. (Suffragist)

Lord, Maria (Convict)

Lovely, Louise (Actor)

Lovett, Mildred (Artist)

Lyons, Dame Enid (Politics)

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M

Mary Elizabeth, Her Majesty Queen of Denmark, Countess of Monpezat

McAuley, Ida (Suffragist)

McIntyre, Margaret Edgeworth (Politics)

McShane, Clare Elizabeth (Business)

Meredith, Louisa Anne (Author, Artist, Botanist)

Miller, Mabel (Politics)

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P


Perrin, Florence (Botanist)

Peterson, Alicia O'Shea (Politics)

Pink, Olive (Anthropologist)

Princess Melikoff (nee Pauline Curran)

Pybus, Betty (Activist)

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R


Roberts, Beth (Author)

Rodway, Florence Aline (Artist)

Rooke, Jessie (Suffragist)

Rowntree, Amy (Educator and Historian)

Rowntree, Frances Fearnley (Fearn) (Artist and Historian)

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S


Scott, Margaret (Author)

Searle, Ethel (Suffragist)

Sherwin, Amy (Music)

Smith, Fanny Cochrane (Aboriginal leader)

Soltau, Grace (Suffragist)

Stone, Constance (Emma) (Medicine)

Stoner, Dorothy (Artist)

Swan, Louisa (Artist)

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T

Tame, Grace


Tasma (Jessie Couvreur nee Huybers) (Author)

Truganini (Aboriginal leader)

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V


Venn, Kath (Politics)

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W


Walch, Christine (Medicine)

Weindorfer, Kate (Pioneer)

West, Ida (Aboriginal elder)

Williams, Nell (Activist)

Wood, Danielle (Author)

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Organisations

Country Women's Association

National Council of Women

Suffrage

Woman's Christian Temperance Union

Women's Political Association

Women's Sanitary Association

Women's Suffrage Association

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Musical Groups

The Ball String Quartet

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Women's Service


Women and Jury Service

Tasmanian Honour Roll of Women

Roll of Honour - Tasmanian Service Women WW2

Tasmanian Women Recipients of the Order of Australia Medal

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