Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor 100 Women, 100 Jewellers, 100 Brooches100 Jewellers, 100 Brooches
Elizabeth Macarthur Georgiana Molloy Deborah Hackett Caroline Chisholm
Annette KellermannFlorence Taylor
“Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor…so begins a 17th century rhyme that little girls would chant to predict the profession of the man they would marry.
Not in their wildest dreams could they have imagined that all the professions recited, from priests to lawyers, would one day be
occupations for women. They are now, but only as a result of the
actions of countless women across the world.”
Miles Franklin -writer Grace Cossington-Smith -painter Margaret Preston -printmaker May Gibbs - illustrator, author
When presented with the challenge of identifying and selecting one hundred remarkable Australian women I aimed to select innovators and achievers across a wide spectrum of occupations from 1788 to today, and, if having to choose between two equals, as was often the case, I opted for the person with a second career or engaged in charitable endeavour.
Determination as well as access to education - whether provided by tutors, schools or workplaces such as a family business - have played a role in success. Some women stood out for their entrepreneurial skills, some for sheer persistence. Others had causes to pursue. Interestingly placing the women in chronological order highlighted the changes in the development of many professions.
Edith Cowan -parliamentarian Elizabeth Kenny - nurse Nancy Wake -resistance fighter Nancy Bird - aviator
1 TINKER - ‘Tin Eye Mother Brown’ (c1874-1950), tinsmith - by Barbara Heath
2 TAILOR - Pru Acton OBE, Dip.Art, Hon.DA (1943-) fashion designer - by Jane Pollard
3 SOLDIER - Julie Hammer MSc, Grad. Dip.SS (1955-) Air Vice-marshall - by Phoebe Porter
4 SAILOR - Kaye Cottee AO (1954-), yachtsperson - by Melinda Young
RICH - Dr Janet Holmes a Court AO, AC, BSc. Dip.Ed, Hon D.Litt. (1943-) company chairman - by Claire Townsend
6 POOR - Pru Arber (1852-1932 ) shepherdess - by Nicole Bannermann
7 BEGGAR - Beatrice Miles (1902-1974) rebel, non conformist - by Caz Guiney
8 THIEF - Mary Reibey (1777-1855) convict, businesswoman - by Sim Lutton
9 Elizabeth Macarthur (1788-1850) wool industry pioneer - by Sheridan Kennedy
0 Maria ‘Granny’ Smith (1800-1870) orchardist, apple breeder - by Kathy McLay
11 Georgiana Molloy (1805- 1843) botanist by Gillian Rainer
11 Georgiana Molloy (1805-1843) botanical collector - by Gillian Rainer
12 Caroline Chisholm (1808-1887) philanthropist - by Catherine Large
13 Truginini (1812-1876) Aboriginal leader - by Belinda Newick
14 Jane Catherine Tost (1817-1889), taxidermist - by Julia de Ville
15 Mary Penfold (1820-1896) winemaker - by Rebecca Ward
16 Mary Lee (1821-1909) suffragette - by Rowena Gough
17 Agnes Buntine (1822-1896 ) bullocky, pastoralist - by Katherine Bowman
18 Saint Mary McKillop (1842-1909) founder of the Josephite order - by Janine Tanzer
19 Margaret Ann Field (1842-1936), amateur astrologer, crochet designer - by Alice Whish
20 Johanna Weigel (1847-1940) dress pattern manufacturer - by Zoe Veness
21 Kate Smith (1847-1932) funeral director - by Marion Marshall
22 Marion Ellis Rowan (1848-1922) botanical artist, explorer - by Vicky Mason
23 Caroline Hodgson (1851-1908) ‘Madame Brussels’ brothel keeper - by Anna Davern
24 Dame Nellie Melba DBE, GBE, (1861-1931), grand diva - by Youngmee Do
25 Edith Dircksey Cowan OBE (1861-1932) politician, women’s activist - by Robin Wells
26 Daisy May Bates CBE (1863-1951), anthropologist, welfare worker - by Bronwyn Goss.
27 Ellen Nora Payne (1865-1962) woodcarver - by Michelle Taylor
28 Ethel Florence ‘Henry Handel’ Richardson (1870-1946), author - by Madeleine Brown
29 Lillian Frost (1870-1963), organist - by Szusy Timar
30 Helena Rubenstein (1870-1965) cosmetics entrepreneur - by Renate Fojikova
31 Matilda Ann Aston (1873-1947) Braille library founder - by Cinnamon Lee
32 Madge O’Connor (1874-1952), policewoman - by Sorka Flett
33 Dr Georgina Sweet DSc. (1875-1946) zoologist, parasitologist - by Leslie Matthews
34 Margaret Preston (1875-1963) artist printmaker - by Julie Blyfield
35 Mary Bertha Raine ( 1877-1960) singing barmaid, hotelier, philanthropist - by Sondi Stankov
36 Cecilia May Gibbs (1877-1967) cartoonist, writer, illustrator - by Kathryn Wardill
37 Stella Maria ‘Miles’ Franklin (1879-1954) writer, prize founder - by Roseanne Bartley
38 Florence Mary Taylor CBE (1879-1969), engineer, architect, town-planner - by Eugenie Keefer Bell
39 Sister Elizabeth Kenny (1880-1952), nurse - by her niece Elizabeth Shaw
40 Olive Muriel Pink (1884-1975), artist, gardener, activist - by Marian Hosking
41 Annette Kellermann (1886-1974), ‘Million dollar Mermaid’, film star - by Ann Chadwick
42 Lady Deborah Hackett / Dr Buller/Murphy (1887-1965) mining entrepreneur, writer, society hostess - by Regina Schwarzer
3 Nell Martyn (1887-1926), managing director of her foundry - by Jin ah Jo
44 Flora Landells (1888-1981), artist and potter - by Jacquie Sprogoe
5 Lottie Lyell (1890-1925), scriptwriter, silent movie star - by Anna Varendorff
46 Dr Ethel McLennan BSc(Hons) DSc (1891-1983), botanist, mycologist - by Michelle Kelly
47 Grace Cossington-Smith AO, OBE (1892-1984) painter - by Barbara Ryman
48 Prof. Ida Mann OBE, DSc. Lon., MB BS Lon., Hon MD(WA), FRCS, FRAS (1893- 1983), ophthalmologist - by Isobel wise
49 Edna Walling (1896-1973), landscape garden designer - by Carolyn Delzoppo
50 Theresa Cahill (1896 -1979), confectioner - by Bridie Lander
51 Josephine Bancroft-Mackerras BSc, MSc (1896-1971), entomologist and parasitologist - by Sue Lorraine
52 Marjorie Ridley (1897-1987), crafts of necessity - by Helen Britton
53 Alice Anderson (1897-1926), hire car garage, mechanic - by Blanche Tilden
54 Florence Broadhurst (1899-1977) singer, couturier, designer - by Kath Inglis
55 Professor Ethel Raybould BA, MA (1899-1997) mathematician - by Melissa Cameron
56 Louise Mary Lightfoot Dip. Arch (1902-1979), choreographer, Dance Academy, Indian Dance promoter - by Christine Pyman
57 Marion Hall-Best (1905-), interior designer - by Jess Dare
58 Prof. Dorothy Hill CBE, BSc(Hons), PhD, FAAS (1907-1997), geologist paleontologist - by Ari Athans.
59 Dr Rica Erickson AM, Hon D.Litt., Cit.WA (1908-2009), historian, artist, naturalist - by her daughter Dorothy Erickson
60 Eileen Joyce (1908-1999), concert pianist – by Anne Neil
61 Mary Dakas nee Paspalis (1909-1984), pearler - by Felicity Dalgleish
62 Emily Kngwarreye (1910-1996) Aboriginal painter - by Vicky Shukuroglou
63 Olive Cotton (1911-2003) photographer - by Lauren Simeoni
64 Dr Nancy Tyson Burbidge AM, BSc., DSc. (1912-1977 ) taxonomist - by Karin Findeis
65 Chevalier Nancy Grace Wake CA, AO, ‘The White Mouse’ (1912-2010) resistance fighter - by Tracey Pateman
66 Ruby Payne-Scott BSc, MSc (1912-1982), physicist, radio astronomer, radio technologist - by Fiona Kwong
67 Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912-1990 ) composer, music critic - by Linda Hughes
8 Hon Dame Roma Mitchell DBE, CBE, AC, LLB (1913-2000) Judge, Governor - by Katheryn Leopoldseider
69 Kira Bousloff OAM (1914-2001) founder WA Ballet Company - by Ximenea Briceno
70 Nancy de Low Bird-Walton AO, OBE, DStJ (1915-2009), commercial pilot - by her niece Eliza Tee
71 Dr Judith Wright D.Litt, FAHA (1915-2000 ), poet -
by Margaret West
72 Ingeborg Victoria King AM, Hon DLitt, HonDArts (1918-), sculptor - by Elisha Nyland
73 Shirley Strickland MBE, AO, BSc (1925-2000) Olympic athlete, coach, nuclear physicist - by Brenda Ridgewell
74 Dame Joan Sutherland OM, DBE, CBE, AC (1926-2010) opera singer - by Nina Oikawa
75 Prof. Priscilla Kincaid-Smith AC, CBE, BCh, BSc(Hons), DSc, MD, MB, DCP, FRACP, FRCP, FRCPA (1926-), nephrologist - by Catherine Truman
76 General Eva Burrows AC, AO, BA, MEd, HonDLib, HonLLB, HonDPhil (1929- ) World leader of the Salvation Army - by Jan Donaldson
77 Hon Prof. Marie Bashir AC, CVO, AO, DStJ, MBBS, HonDSc, FRANZCP (1930-) psychiatrist, Governor - by Valerie Aked
78 Aziza Habdel-Halim AM, BA, Dip. Ed (1934- ) community worker, teacher - by Nicole Polentas
79 Diana Cullen (1937-), physiotherapist, vigneron - by Elfrun Lach
80 Stephanie Alexander OAM, BA, Dip.Ed (1940-), cook, writer, kitchen garden project - by Margaret Kirkwood
81 Margaret Court AO, MBE, HonLLD (1942-) professional tennis player, by Valerie Odewahn
82 Her Excellency Quentin Bryce AC, AO, DStJ, BA, LLB, HonDLitt (1942-) Lawyer, Governor General - by Jessica Morrison
83 Yvonne Koolmatrie (1944-), traditional Aboriginal weaver - by Jane Bowden
84 Lee Lin Chin (1945-), broadcaster, fashionista - by Jane Bowring
85 Prof. Fiona Stanley AC, MSc(Lon), MD, MFPHM (1946-) pediatrician - by Kylie Gartside
86 Britt Andresen MArch, LFRAIA (1946- ), architect, academic - by Ingrid Lockley
87 Prof. Elizabeth Blackburn AC, FRS, MSc, PhD (1948-), molecular biologist, Nobel Prize winner - by Maureen Chauhan
88 Gai Waterhouse BA (1954-), actress, award winning race horse trainer - by Diane Appleby
89 Rt. Rev. Kaye Goldsworthy BTh (1956-) Bishop - by Felicity Peters
90 Prof. Fiona Wood AM, CitWA, HonDLitt, FRCS, FRACS (19 -), plastic surgeon, medical researcher, inventor - by Christel van der Laan
91 Brigitte Leonce Muir OAM, BA(Hons) (1958-), mountaineer - by Helen Aitken-Kuhnen
92 Maestro Simone Young AM, HonLLD, HonDMus (1961-), conductor - by Coconut Lu
93 Julia Gillard BA, LLB (1961-), Prime Minister, lawyer - by Darani Lewers
94 Catherine Martin Dip.Des (1965-) Oscar winning costume and set designer - by Bibi Locke
95 Kylie Kwong (1969-) restauranter, TV chef - by Julie Kiefel
96 Crown Princess Mary of Denmark BCom, LLB (1972- ) royalty - by Peta Kruger
97 Layne Beachly (1972-) professional surfer - by Dora Stockhausen
98 Louise Sauvage OAM (1973- ) international wheelchair athlete - by Susi Woodhouse
99 Karrie Ann Webb AM (1979-) professional golfer - by Linda van Niekerk
100 Dr Michele Harvey BSc, PhD (1978- ) forensic scientist - by Yuko Fujita
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor100 Women, 100 Jewellers, 100 Brooches
“Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor…so begins a 17th century rhyme that little girls would chant to predict the profession of the man they would marry. Not in their wildest dreams could they have imagined that all the professions recited, from priests to lawyers, would one day be occupations for women. They are now, but only as a result of the actions of countless women across the world.”
Slide Number 3
1 TINKER - ‘Tin Eye Mother Brown’ (c1874-1950), tinsmith - by Barbara Heath
2 TAILOR - Pru Acton OBE, Dip.Art, Hon.DA (1943-) fashion designer - by Jane Pollard
3 SOLDIER - Julie Hammer MSc, Grad. Dip.SS (1955-) Air Vice-marshall - by Phoebe Porter
4 SAILOR - Kaye Cottee AO (1954-), yachtsperson - by Melinda Young
5 RICH - Dr Janet Holmes a Court AO, AC, BSc. Dip.Ed, Hon D.Litt. (1943-) company chairman - by Claire Townsend
6 POOR - Pru Arber (1852-1932 ) shepherdess - by Nicole Bannermann
7 BEGGAR - Beatrice Miles (1902-1974) rebel, non conformist - by Caz Guiney
8 THIEF - Mary Reibey (1777-1855) convict, businesswoman - by Sim Lutton
9 Elizabeth Macarthur (1788-1850) wool industry pioneer - by Sheridan Kennedy
10 Maria ‘Granny’ Smith (1800-1870) orchardist, apple breeder - by Kathy McLay
11 Georgiana Molloy (1805-1843) botanist by Gillian Rainer
12 Caroline Chisholm (1808-1887) philanthropist - by Catherine Large
13 Truginini (1812-1876) Aboriginal leader - by Belinda Newick
14 Jane Catherine Tost (1817-1889), taxidermist - by Julia de Ville
15 Mary Penfold (1820-1896) winemaker - by Rebecca Ward
16 Mary Lee (1821-1909) suffragette - by Rowena Gough
17 Agnes Buntine (1822-1896 ) bullocky, pastoralist - by Katherine Bowman
18 Saint Mary McKillop (1842-1909) founder of the Josephite order - by Janine Tanzer
19 Margaret Ann Field (1842-1936), amateur astrologer, crochet designer - by Alice Whish
20 Johanna Weigel (1847-1940) dress pattern manufacturer - by Zoe Veness
21 Kate Smith (1847-1932) funeral director - by Marion Marshall
22 Marion Ellis Rowan (1848-1922) botanical artist, explorer - by Vicky Mason
23 Caroline Hodgson (1851-1908) ‘Madame Brussels’ brothel keeper - by Anna Davern
24 Dame Nellie Melba DBE, GBE, (1861-1931), grand diva - by Youngmee Do
25 Edith Dircksey Cowan OBE (1861-1932) politician, women’s activist - by Robin Wells
26 Daisy May Bates CBE (1863-1951), anthropologist, welfare worker - by Bronwyn Goss.
27 Ellen Nora Payne (1865-1962) woodcarver - by Michelle Taylor
28 Ethel Florence ‘Henry Handel’ Richardson (1870-1946), author - by Madeleine Brown
29 Lillian Frost (1870-1963), organist - by Szusy Timar
30 Helena Rubenstein (1870-1965) cosmetics entrepreneur - by Renate Fojikova
Slide Number 34
33 Dr Georgina Sweet DSc. (1875-1946) zoologist, parasitologist - by Leslie Matthews
34 Margaret Preston (1875-1963) artist printmaker - by Julie Blyfield
35 Mary Bertha Raine ( 1877-1960) singing barmaid, hotelier, philanthropist - by Sondi Stankov
36 Cecilia May Gibbs (1877-1967) cartoonist, writer, illustrator - by Kathryn Wardill
37 Stella Maria ‘Miles’ Franklin (1879-1954) writer, prize founder - by Roseanne Bartley
38 Florence Mary Taylor CBE (1879-1969), engineer, architect, town-planner - by Eugenie Keefer Bell
39 Sister Elizabeth Kenny (1880-1952), nurse - by her niece Elizabeth Shaw
40 Olive Muriel Pink (1884-1975), artist, gardener, activist - by Marian Hosking
41 Annette Kellermann (1886-1974), ‘Million dollar Mermaid’, film star - by Ann Chadwick
42 Lady Deborah Hackett / Dr Buller/Murphy (1887-1965) mining entrepreneur, writer, society hostess - by Regina Schwarzer
43 Nell Martyn (1887-1926), managing director of her foundry - by Jin ah Jo
44 Flora Landells (1888-1981), artist and potter - by Jacquie Sprogoe
45 Lottie Lyell (1890-1925), scriptwriter, silent movie star - by Anna Varendorff
46 Dr Ethel McLennan BSc(Hons) DSc (1891-1983), botanist, mycologist - by Michelle Kelly
47 Grace Cossington-Smith AO, OBE (1892-1984) painter - by Barbara Ryman
48 Prof. Ida Mann OBE, DSc. Lon., MB BS Lon., Hon MD(WA), FRCS, FRAS (1893-1983), ophthalmologist - by Isobel wise
49 Edna Walling (1896-1973), landscape garden designer - by Carolyn Delzoppo
50 Theresa Cahill (1896 -1979), confectioner - by Bridie Lander
51 Josephine Bancroft-Mackerras BSc, MSc (1896-1971), entomologist and parasitologist - by Sue Lorraine
52 Marjorie Ridley (1897-1987), crafts of necessity - by Helen Britton
53 Alice Anderson (1897-1926), hire car garage, mechanic - by Blanche Tilden
54 Florence Broadhurst (1899-1977) singer, couturier, designer - by Kath Inglis
55 Professor Ethel Raybould BA, MA (1899-1997) mathematician - by Melissa Cameron
56 Louise Mary Lightfoot Dip. Arch (1902-1979), choreographer, Dance Academy, Indian Dance promoter - by Christine Pyman
57 Marion Hall-Best (1905-), interior designer - by Jess Dare
58 Prof. Dorothy Hill CBE, BSc(Hons), PhD, FAAS (1907-1997), geologist paleontologist - by Ari Athans.
59 Dr Rica Erickson AM, Hon D.Litt., Cit.WA (1908-2009), historian, artist, naturalist - by her daughter Dorothy Erickson
60 Eileen Joyce (1908-1999), concert pianist – by Anne Neil
61 Mary Dakas nee Paspalis (1909-1984), pearler - by Felicity Dalgleish
62 Emily Kngwarreye (1910-1996) Aboriginal painter - by Vicky Shukuroglou
63 Olive Cotton (1911-2003) photographer - by Lauren Simeoni
64 Dr Nancy Tyson Burbidge AM, BSc., DSc. (1912-1977 ) taxonomist - by Karin Findeis
65 Chevalier Nancy Grace Wake CA, AO, ‘The White Mouse’ (1912-2010) resistance fighter - by Tracey Pateman
66 Ruby Payne-Scott BSc, MSc (1912-1982), physicist, radio astronomer, radio technologist - by Fiona Kwong
67 Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912-1990 ) composer, music critic - by Linda Hughes
68 Hon Dame Roma Mitchell DBE, CBE, AC, LLB (1913-2000) Judge, Governor - by Katheryn Leopoldseider
69 Kira Bousloff OAM (1914-2001) founder WA Ballet Company - by Ximenea Briceno
70 Nancy de Low Bird-Walton AO, OBE, DStJ (1915-2009), commercial pilot - by her niece Eliza Tee
71 Dr Judith Wright D.Litt, FAHA (1915-2000 ), poet - by Margaret West
72 Ingeborg Victoria King AM, Hon DLitt, HonDArts (1918-), sculptor - by Elisha Nyland
73 Shirley Strickland MBE, AO, BSc (1925-2000) Olympic athlete, coach, nuclear physicist - by Brenda Ridgewell
74 Dame Joan Sutherland OM, DBE, CBE, AC (1926-2010) opera singer - by Nina Oikawa
75 Prof. Priscilla Kincaid-Smith AC, CBE, BCh, BSc(Hons), DSc, MD, MB, DCP, FRACP, FRCP, FRCPA (1926-), nephrologist - by Catherine Truman
76 General Eva Burrows AC, AO, BA, MEd, HonDLib, HonLLB, HonDPhil (1929- ) World leader of the Salvation Army - by Jan Donaldson
77 Hon Prof. Marie Bashir AC, CVO, AO, DStJ, MBBS, HonDSc, FRANZCP (1930-) psychiatrist, Governor - by Valerie Aked
78 Aziza Habdel-Halim AM, BA, Dip. Ed (1934- ) community worker, teacher - by Nicole Polentas
79 Diana Cullen (1937-), physiotherapist, vigneron - by Elfrun Lach
80 Stephanie Alexander OAM, BA, Dip.Ed (1940-), cook, writer, kitchen garden project - by Margaret Kirkwood
81 Margaret Court AO, MBE, HonLLD (1942-) professional tennis player, pastor - by Valerie Odewahn
82 Her Excellency Quentin Bryce AC, AO, DStJ, BA, LLB, HonDLitt (1942-) Lawyer, Governor General - by Jessica Morrison
83 Yvonne Koolmatrie (1944-), traditional Aboriginal weaver - by Jane Bowden
84 Lee Lin Chin (1945-), broadcaster, fashionista - by Jane Bowring
85 Prof. Fiona Stanley AC, MSc(Lon), MD, MFPHM (1946-) pediatrician - by Kylie Gartside
86 Britt Andresen MArch, LFRAIA (1946- ), architect, academic - by Ingrid Lockley
87 Prof. Elizabeth Blackburn AC, FRS, MSc, PhD (1948-), molecular biologist, Nobel Prize winner - by Maureen Chauhan
88 Gai Waterhouse BA (1954-), actress, award winning race horse trainer - by Diane Appleby
89 Rt. Rev. Kaye Goldsworthy BTh (1956-) Bishop - by Felicity Peters
90 Prof. Fiona Wood AM, CitWA, HonDLitt, FRCS, FRACS (19 -), plastic surgeon, medical researcher, inventor - by Christel van der Laan
91 Brigitte Leonce Muir OAM, BA(Hons) (1958-), mountaineer - by Helen Aitken-Kuhnen
92 Maestro Simone Young AM, HonLLD, HonDMus (1961-), conductor - by Coconut Lu
93 Julia Gillard BA, LLB (1961-), Prime Minister, lawyer - by Darani Lewers
94 Catherine Martin Dip.Des (1965-) Oscar winning costume and set designer - by Bibi Locke
95 Kylie Kwong (1969-) restauranter, TV chef - by Julie Kiefel
96 Crown Princess Mary of Denmark BCom, LLB (1972- ) royalty - by Peta Kruger
97 Layne Beachly (1972-) professional surfer - by Dora Stockhausen
98 Louise Sauvage OAM (1973- ) international wheelchair athlete - by Susi Woodhouse