Published Resources Details
Journal Article
- Title
- Higher Education, Work and "Overstrain of the Brain": Amy Marion Elliott, MSc, University of Tasmania, 1900
- In
- History of Education Review
- Imprint
- vol. 29, no. 1, Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society, 2000, pp. 16-31
- Url
- http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2853080272
- Format
- Description
Found in TROVE
- Abstract
Conclusion
Amy Eiliott's life spanned a period of increasing tensions about women's position in Australian society. This article has located the introduction of competitive academic education, and increasing opportunities for middle-class women to be economically and socially independent as significant factors contributing to these arudeties. Amy Elliott wholeheartedly embraced the openings for women in higher education and in the workplace. In so doing she took risks and won acclaim but also faced rejection and professional disappointment. The tragic circwnstances of her final years should not over-ride her successes. Indeed. it is timely to highlight her achievements as the University of Tasmania's first woman Bachelor of Science, and its first Master of Science in 1900, and to reflect on the many ways in which she and other women challenged the prevailing social order in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.- Source
- Carey 2003