Edith Cowan
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Edith Dircksey Cowan OBE (née Brown, 1861–1932), an Australian social reformer who advocated for women and children's rights and wellbeing.
She is best known as the first Australian woman to serve as a member of parliament.
Since 1995, Cowan has appeared on the reverse of Australia's 50-dollar note. Cowan was born on a sheep station near Geraldton, Western Australia.
She was the granddaughter of two of the colony's early settlers, Thomas Brown and John Wittenoom.
Cowan's mother died when she was seven years old, and she was subsequently taken to boarding school in Perth.
Kenneth Brown, her stepmother's murderer, was executed at the age of 14, making her an orphanage.
She then lived with her grandmother in Guildford, Western Australia, until she married at the age of 18.
She and her husband will have four children together, splitting their time between homes in West Perth and Cottesloe. Cowan, one of the founders of the Karrakatta Club, Australia's first women's social club, was established in 1894.
She became a leader of the women's suffrage movement in Western Australia, where women were granted the right to vote in 1899.
Cowan, a leading advocate for public education and the interests of children (especially those born to single mothers).
She was one of the first women to serve on a local board of education and in 1906 she helped found the Children's Protection Society, whose advocacy resulted in the establishment of the Children's Court the following year.
Cowan was a co-founder of the Women's Service Guild in 1909 and 1911, and he helped found a state branch of the National Council of Women. Cowan was a key figure in the establishment of the King Edward Memorial Hospital for Women and became a member of the board of directors when it opened in 1916.
In 1915, she was made a magistrate and a justice of the peace in 1920.
Cowan was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia in 1921 as a member of the Nationalist Party, becoming Australia's first female parliamentarian.
She was disqualified after a single term, but she maintained a high profile during her tenure and was able to get the passage of several of her private member's bills.
Early life
Cowan was born in 1861 at Glengarry, a sheep station near Geraldton, Western Australia. She was the second child of Kenneth Brown, a pastoralist and uncle of early York settlers Thomas and Eliza Brown, as well as his first wife Mary Eliza Dircksey Wittenoom, a scholar and the niece of the colonial chaplain J. B. Wittenoom. Cowan's mother died in childbirth in 1868, when Cowan was only seven years old. She went to a Perth boarding school run by Misses Cowan, the sister of her future husband. Her adolescence was shaken in 1876 by her father's ordeal and conviction for the murder of his second wife, which was the year. He murdered his second wife by shooting her when she were packing. Cowan was a solitary person who contributed to social reforms that improved women's dignity and responsibility while still ensuring appropriate care for mothers and children.
After her father's death, she left her boarding school and moved to Guildford to live with her grandmother. She attended the tuition of Canon Sweeting, a former headmaster of Bishop Hale's School who had taught a variety of popular boys, including John Forrest and Septimus Burt. Sweeting's education left Cowan with "a life-long conviction of the value of education, as well as an interest in books and reading," according to her biographer.
Personal life
Edith married James Cowan, then Registrar of the Supreme Court, at the age of 18, on November 12th. They lived in Scotstoun, 71, West Perth, for the majority of their lives, but they are also known for building one of the first houses in Avonmore Terrace, Cottesloe, where they lived from 1896 to 1912. Cowan was married in St George's Cathedral, Perth, Perth, Perth, Australia. In 1916, she became one of the first women to be elected to the Anglican Synod.