Biographical entry McConnel, Ursula Hope (1888 - 1957)

Ursula McConnel undertook research into the Aboriginal peoples of the Gulf of Carpentaria region of the Cape York Peninsula 1927-1928 and 1934.

Ursula McConnel - Records, 1934 - 1953, A.D. 49; State Records of South Australia. Details

McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html. Details

Marcus, Julie, Lepervanche, Marie de, McBryde, Isabel, Prior, Mary Ellen Murray, White, Isobel; Morris, Miranda; O'Gorman, Anne; Marcus, Julie and Cheater, Christine, First in Their Field: Women and Australian Anthropology, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1993. Details

O'Gorman Perusco, Anne, 'Only Sticks and Bark: Ursula McConnel - Her Collecting and Collection', in Peterson, Nicolas, Allen, Lindy and Hamby, Louise (eds), The Makers and Making of Indigenous Australian Museum Collections, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 2008, pp. 419-42. Details
Perusco, Anne O'Gorman, 'McConnel, Ursula Hope (1888-1957), Anthropologist', in John Ritchie (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 15, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2000, pp. 178-179. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150214b.htm. Details

McKay, Judith (ed.), Brilliant Careers: Women Collectors and Illustrators in Queensland, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, 1997, 80 pp. Details

Sutton, P., 'Ursula McConnel's Tin Trunk: a Remarkable Recovery', Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, vol. 134, 2010, pp. 101-14. Details

Rothwell, Nicolas, 'Enigma Variations', The Weekend Australian, 15-16 August 2009, pp. 6-7. Details

'McConnel, Ursula Hope (1888-1957)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-639321. Details

McCarthy, G.J.

Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 7 April 2010

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