Biographical entry 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.

Archival resources

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

Books

• De Vries-Evans, Susanna, Pioneer Women, Pioneer Land: Yesterday's Tall Poppies, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1987, 280 pp. Details
• Hasluck, Alexandra, Portrait with Background: a Life of Georgiana Molloy, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1960. Details
• Lines, William J., An all consuming passion: origins, modernity, and the Australian life of Georgiana Molloy, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1993, 352 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Erickson, Rica, 'Georgiana Molloy (1803-1843) botanist', in Heather Radi (ed.), 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Women's Redress Press Inc, Sydney, 1988. Details
• Hasluck, Alexandra, 'Molloy, Georgiana (1805-1843), amateur botanist', in Douglas Pike (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 2, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1967, pp. 244-245. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A020210b.htm. Details

Edited Books

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

Journal Articles

• Molloy, Georgiana, 'Correspondence', Journal and Proceedings of the Western Australian Historical Society, vol. 1, IV, 1929. Details
• Pickering, W. G., 'The Letters of Georgina Molloy', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Western Australian Historical Society, vol. 1, 1929. Details
• Skene, Judy, 'The Power of Naming: Women Botanical Collectors and the Contested Space of 19^th Century Botany', Studies in Western Australian History, no. 17, 1997, pp. 1-12. Details

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Molloy, Georgiana', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-742076. Details