Molloy, Georgiana (1805 - 1843)

Summary

Georgiana Molloy emigrated to Western Australia from England in 1830 and settled in Augusta. She collected and despatched seeds of local native plants to J. Mangles FRS who passed them to collectors in the UK. She was known for her detailed botanical descriptions.

Related entries

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

• Australian Botanists - Biographies, MS 064; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

JS Battye Library of West Australian History, State Library of Western Australia

• Georgiana Molloy - Records, 1829 - 1830, ACC 2877A; JS Battye Library of West Australian History, State Library of Western Australia. Details
• Georgiana Molloy - Records, 1823 - 1929, ACC 501A; JS Battye Library of West Australian History, State Library of Western Australia. Details
• Georgiana Molloy - Records, 1897, ACC 1959A; JS Battye Library of West Australian History, State Library of Western Australia. Details
• Georgiana Molloy - Records, 1835 - 1845, ACC 479A; JS Battye Library of West Australian History, State Library of Western Australia. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

• McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regularly edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details

Books

• Barry, Bernice, Georgiana Molloy: the mind that shines (Witchcliffe (W.A.): Redgate Consultants, 2015), 373 pp. Details
• Barry, Bernice, Georgiana Molloy: the mind that shines (Sydney: Picador Pan Macmillan, 2016), 336 pp. Details
• De Vries-Evans, Susanna, Pioneer Women, Pioneer Land: Yesterday's Tall Poppies (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1987), 280 pp. Details
• Forsyth, Holly Kerr, Remembered Gardens: Eight Women and Their Visions of an Australian Landscape (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2006), 273 pp. Details
• Hasluck, Alexandra, Portrait with Background: a Life of Georgiana Molloy (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1960). Details
• Hooker, Claire, Irresistible Forces: Australian Women in Science (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2004), 215 pp. Details
• Lines, William J., An all consuming passion: origins, modernity, and the Australian life of Georgiana Molloy (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1993), 352 pp. Details
• MacInnis, Peter, Curious Minds: the Discoveries of Australian Naturalists (Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2012), 213 pp. pages 56-60. Details

Book Sections

• Bassett, Marnie, 'Augusta and Mrs Molloy' in People and Plants in Australia, Carr, D. J. and Carr, S. G. M., eds (Sydney: Academic Press, 1981), pp. 357-73. Details
• Erickson, Rica, 'Georgiana Molloy (1803-1843) botanist' in 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Heather Radi, ed. (Sydney: Women's Redress Press Inc, 1988). Details
• Hasluck, Alexandra, 'Molloy, Georgiana (1805-1843), amateur botanist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 2: 1788 - 1850 I-Z, Douglas Pike, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1967), pp. 244-245. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/molloy-georgiana-2467. Details
• Maroske, Sara, '"The Whole Great Continent as a Present": Nineteenth-century Australian Women Workers in Science' in On the Edge of Discovery: Australian Women in Science, Farley Kelly, ed. (Melbourne: Text Publishing Company, 1993), pp. 13-34. 15, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 25, 27, 28, 34. Details
• Moyal, Ann, 'Collectors and illustrators: women botanists of the nineteenth century' in People and Plants in Australia, Carr, D. J. and Carr, S. G. M., eds (Sydney: Academic Press, 1981), pp. 333-56. Details

Conference Papers

• Patrick, S. J., 'Georgiana Molloy and early forest botany in the Augusta to Bussleton area of Weatern Australia', in A forest consciousness: 6th national conference of the Australian Forest History Society edited by Calver, Michael [and others] (Rotterdam, Netherlands,: Millpress, 2005), pp. 131-41., https://www.foresthistory.org.au/Proceedings2004/113.pdf. Details

Edited Books

• Radi, H. ed., 200 Australian Women: a Redress Anthology (Sydney: Women's Redress Press Inc, 1988), 268 pp. Details

Journal Articles

• Molloy, Georgiana, 'Correspondence', Journal and Proceedings of the Western Australian Historical Society, 1 (IV) (1929). Details
• Pickering, W. G., 'The Letters of Georgina Molloy', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Western Australian Historical Society, 1 (1929). Details
• Skene, Judy, 'The Power of Naming: Women Botanical Collectors and the Contested Space of 19th Century Botany', Studies in Western Australian History (1997), 1-12. Details

Resources

• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/22953152. Details
• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5548105. Details
• 'Molloy, Georgiana (1803-1843)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-742076. Details

Reviews

• Barry, Bernice, Georgiana Molloy: the mind that shines (2016)
  George, Alex, 'Standing on shoulders', Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter, 167, (2016), 51-6. Details