Person

Little, Leonora Jessie (1865 - 1945)

Born
1865
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died
27 May 1945
Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Alternative Names
  • Wilsmore, Leonora Jessie (married name)

Summary

Leonora Little, a zoologist and philanthropist, in 1893 was the first women to graduate from the University of Melbourne with a BSc. She completed an MSc two years later. In 1894 she married fellow science graduate Norman Wilsmore. She published in the The Victorian Naturalist and later described seven new species of sea anemones.

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Published resources

Books

  • Creese, Mary R. S.; and Creese, Thomas M., Ladies in the laboratory III: South African, Australian, New Zealand and Canadian, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2010), 258 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • De Garis, B. K., 'Wilsmore, Norman Thomas Mortimer (1868-1940), professor of chemistry' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 12: 1891 - 1939 Smy-Z, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1990), pp. 517-518. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/wilsmore-norman-thomas-mortimer-9130. Details
  • Kelly, Farley, 'Learning and Teaching Science: Women Making Careers 1890-1920' in On the Edge of Discovery: Australian Women in Science, Farley Kelly, ed. (Melbourne: Text Publishing Company, 1993), pp. 35-75. pages 39-40, 44, 46. Details

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Resource Sections

See also

  • 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. Details
  • Whitehead, Kay, 'Higher Education, Work and "Overstrain of the Brain": Amy Marion Elliott, MSc, University of Tasmania, 1900', History of Education Review, 29 (1) (2000), 16-31, http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2853080272. Details

Gavan McCarthy

Created: 16 June 2025

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