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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2025-06-16 human Gavan McCarthy updated 2025-08-29 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007743b.htm person Little Leonora Jessie AACR2 Wilsmore, Leonora Jessie 1865 27 May 1945 Place of Birth Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Place of Death Perth, Western Australia, Australia 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. Dornwell, Edith Emily (1865 - 1945) Hunt, Fanny (1863 - 1941) Elliott, Amy Marion (1874 - 1913) Wilsmore, Norman Thomas Mortimer (1868 - 1940) 'Little, Leonora Jessie', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Little, Leonora Jessie 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: Little, Leonora Jessie - biographical entry Rasmussen, Carolyn; Tropea, Rachel Little, Leonora Jessie - biographical entry Melbourne Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre 2001 Faculty of Science at the University of Melbourne: A Historic Compendium Book Section: Wilsmore, Norman Thomas Mortimer (1868-1940), professor of chemistry De Garis, B. K. Wilsmore, Norman Thomas Mortimer (1868-1940), professor of chemistry Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1990 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 12: 1891 - 1939 Smy-Z John Ritchie 517-518 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 Book Section: Learning and Teaching Science: Women Making Careers 1890-1920 Kelly, Farley Learning and Teaching Science: Women Making Careers 1890-1920 Melbourne Text Publishing Company 1993 On the Edge of Discovery: Australian Women in Science Farley Kelly 35-75 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