Published Resources Details
Book Section
- Title
- Cooper, Lilian Violet (1861-1947), medical practitioner
- In
- Australian dictionary of biography, volume 8: 1891 - 1939 Cl-Gib
- Imprint
- Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1981, p. 105
- Url
- http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080116b.htm
- Format
- Description
Published online in 2006.
- Abstract
Quote: "Cooper worked briefly and unhappily for a practitioner in Halstead, Essex, then came to Brisbane in May 1891 with her lifelong friend Josephine Bedford, and in June became the first female doctor registered in Queensland. Induced to work for an alcoholic doctor, she finally secured a cancellation of her contract and was boycotted professionally for two years. She was allowed to join the Medical Society of Queensland in 1893, and later became an honorary in the Hospital for Sick Children and the Lady Lamington Hospital for Women. In 1905 she became associated with the Mater Misericordiae Hospital and stayed with it for the rest of her life."