P007487 revised AU-VU:EOAS Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation

All key entry types: Awards; Concepts; Corporate Bodies (Organisations); Cultural Artefacts; People; etc

These key entries are listed separately below with other indexes and lists.

 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2024-09-26 human Sara Maroske updated 2025-10-07 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007487b.htm person Dornwell Edith Emily AACR2 Raymond, Edith Emily 31 August 1865 18 November 1945 Place of Birth New Zealand Place of Death Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Teacher Edith Dornwell was the first woman to graduate from the University of Adelaide (in 1885), and the first person to graduate with a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in Australia. Her undergraduate career was distinguished with several awards, including the Sir Thomas Elder Prize in Physiology in 1883. Upon completing her degree, Dornwell taught for several years at her former secondary school, the Advanced School for Girls. Her subjects were mathematics, physics, Latin and physiology. She then taught at schools in Victoria and New South Wales for eight years. After her marriage in 1895, she moved to Fiji where her husband had a post with Commonwealth Sugar Refineries. The couple returned to Sydney after his retirement where she was active in the Lyceum Club and the National Council of Women. 1870s 1870s Education - Attended primary school at the State Central Model School, Adelaide 1877? 1882 Education - Attended secondary school at the Advanced School for Girls (now Adelaide High School), Adelaide 1882 1882 Education - Matriculated with honours in French, German, animal physiology and modern history, from Advanced School for Girls, Adelaide April 1883 April 1883 Award - Sir Thomas Elder Prize in Physiology, University of Adelaide 1885 1885 Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), (with first class honours in physics and physiology), University of Adelaide 1886 1886 Award - Presented with a special prize of 20 guineas by the Chancellor of the University of Adelaide in 'recognition of the satisfactory manner' in which she passed the examinations 1886 1887 Career position - Teacher of mathematics, physics, Latin and physiology, Advanced School for Girls, Adelaide 1890s 1890s Career event - Applied unsuccessfully for the position of Principal of Women's College, University of Sydney 1890 1894 Career position - Headmistress, Riviere Ladies' College, Woollahra, New South Wales 13 February 1895 13 February 1895 Life event - Married Lionel Charles Raymond, Walkerville, South Australia The University of Adelaide (1874 - 2026)

Received the Sir Thomas Elder Prize in Physiology 1883; first woman to graduate 1885

 Little, Leonora Jessie (1865 - 1945) Hunt, Fanny (1863 - 1941) Elliott, Amy Marion (1874 - 1913) 'Dornwell, Edith Emily', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Dornwell, Edith Emily Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: No place for a woman?: Intersections of class, modernity and colonialism in the gendering of Australian Science, 1885-1940 Carey, Jane No place for a woman?: Intersections of class, modernity and colonialism in the gendering of Australian Science, 1885-1940 Penrith, New South Wales Australian Women's History Network 2001 Lilith: A Feminist History Journal 10 153-172 Resource Section: Edith Emily Dornwell University of Adelaide Edith Emily Dornwell Adelaide University of Adelaide 2024 Journal Article: Australia's first female graduate [Edith Dornwell] Anon Australia's first female graduate [Edith Dornwell] 2014 Lumen: the University of Adelaide alumni magazine Winter 5 Journal Article: Higher Education, Work and "Overstrain of the Brain": Amy Marion Elliott, MSc, University of Tasmania, 1900 Whitehead, Kay Higher Education, Work and "Overstrain of the Brain": Amy Marion Elliott, MSc, University of Tasmania, 1900 Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society 2000 History of Education Review 29 1 16-31 Book Section: "The Whole Great Continent as a Present": Nineteenth-century Australian Women Workers in Science Maroske, Sara "The Whole Great Continent as a Present": Nineteenth-century Australian Women Workers in Science Melbourne Text Publishing Company 1993 On the Edge of Discovery: Australian Women in Science Farley Kelly 13-34 Book: Love and Freedom: Professional Women and the Reshaping of Personal Life Mackinnon, Alison Love and Freedom: Professional Women and the Reshaping of Personal Life Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1997 Book: The New Women: Adelaide's Early Women Graduates Mackinnon, Alison The New Women: Adelaide's Early Women Graduates Netley Wakefield Press 1986 Book: Ladies in the laboratory III: South African, Australian, New Zealand and Canadian, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries 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