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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2025-06-16 human Gavan McCarthy updated 2025-06-25 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007744b.htm person Elliott Amy Marion AACR2 2 January 1874 29 May 1913 Place of Birth Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Place of Death New Norfolk, Tasmania, Australia Teacher Chemical analyst Amy Elliott, the first woman Bachelor of Science from the University of Tasmania, and its first Master of Science of either sex, belongs to a vanguard of middle-class women who accepted the challenges of a higher education in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. She died of 'chronic brain disease' in 1913 following the breakdown of her employment with the Commonwealth Public Service in Melbourne in late 1903. 1887 1891 Education - Third girl to enrol in The Friends' School, Hobart c. 1890 c. 1892 Life event - Active in The Friends' Natural History and Essay Society 1891 1891 Education - Completed the first Tasmanian Senior Public examination with 17 others July 1891 1896 Career position - Recruited to The Friends' School, Hobart as a junior teacher 1892 c. 1903 Life event - Active in the Hobartville Association, successor to The Friends' Natural History and Essay Society 1894 1894 Education - Enrolled in a Bachelor of Science at the University of Tasmania, passing English, Mathematics and Chemistry 1898 1898 Education - Awarded Bachelor of Science (BSc) at the University of Tasmania, the first women to achieve that goal February 1899 July 1903 Career position - Appointed Assistant Government Analyst, Tasmanian Public Service, working for William Foule Ward December 1900 December 1900 Education - Awarded Master of Science (MSc) at the University of Tasmania, the first woman anywhere in Australia to achieve that goal 1902 1902 Event - The Commonwealth Public Service Act of 1902 excludes married women from employment c. August 1903 c. October 1903 Career position - Customs Analyst, Commonwealth Public Service, Melbourne, a probationary appointment that was terminated December 1903 December 1903 Career event - Chief Secretary of Tasmania officially terminates her position as Assistant Government Analyst January 1904 January 1904 Career event - Unemployed October 1904 15 October 1904 Life event - Admitted to the Hospital for the Insane, New Norfolk, Tasmania, by her father 25 July 1908 25 July 1908 Life event - Admitted, for the final time, to the Hospital for the Insane, New Norfolk, Tasmania, by her brother Charles 29 May 1913 29 May 1913 Life event - Died of 'chronic brain disease' at the Hospital for the Insane, New Norfolk, Tasmania Department of Trade and Customs, Commonwealth of Australia (1901 - 1956)

Customs analyst 1903 (August - October)

 The University of Tasmania (1890 - )

First woman BSc (1898) and MSc (1900)

 Hunt, Fanny (1863 - 1941) Masson, David Orme (1858 - 1937) Little, Leonora Jessie (1865 - 1945) Dornwell, Edith Emily (1865 - 1945) 'Elliott, Amy Marion', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Elliott, Amy Marion Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book: Knowing Women: Origins of Women's Education in Nineteenth-Century Australia Theobald, Marjorie Knowing Women: Origins of Women's Education in Nineteenth-Century Australia Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1996 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 Conference Paper: Thinking of the future while looking deep into the past: the continuing evolution of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation [Paper 400] McCarthy, Gavan Thinking of the future while looking deep into the past: the continuing evolution of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation [Paper 400] Melbourne Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation 2025 27th International Congress of History of Science & Technology