Person

Cooper, Lilian Violet (1861 - 1947)

Born
11 August 1861
Clapham, Kent, England
Died
18 August 1947
Kangaroo Point, Queensland, Australia
Occupation
Physician

Summary

Lilian Cooper worked as a physician at the Hospital for Sick Children, and the Lady Lamington Hospital for Women, Brisbane from about 1893 and from 1905 to her retirement was associated with the Mater Misericordiae Hospital in Queensland.

Archival resources

Royal Australasian College of Surgeons

  • Lilian Violet Cooper - Records; Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. 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 regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details

Books

  • Williams, Lesley M., No Easy Path: the Life and Times of Lilian Violet Cooper MD, FRACS (1861-1947), Australia's First Woman Surgeon (Brisbane: Amphion Press, 1991), 138 (152) pp. Details

Book Sections

  • Leggett, C. A. C., 'Cooper, Lilian Violet (1861-1947), medical practitioner' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 8: 1891 - 1939 Cl-Gib, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1981), p. 105. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080116b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

  • Williams, Lesley M., 'Medical Women in Queensland: Characters and Charisma', Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland, 20 (4) (2007), 134-138. Details

Resources

McCarthy, G.J.

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