Mary Ellen Roberts b. 18 May 1866

  • Artist (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer)
A dressmaking and craft teacher vociferously committed to vocational training for women, Mary Roberts was a zealous teacher and curriculum designer at Sydney Technical College. She was also a founding member of the editorial committee of the Technical Gazette of New South Wales in 1911 (the only woman member) and vice-president of the NSW Feminist Club from 1914.

Citations

  • (1909), 'A Quarter Century of Technical Education in New South Wales’, Sydney, NSW : Dept of Education.

  • Neill, Norm (1991), 'Technically and Further: Sydney Technical College 1891-1991’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Roberts, M.E. (1911), 'Women’s Industries’, Technical Gazette, 01-01.

  • Teale, Ruth (1988), 'Mary Ellen Roberts’, Melbourne, Vic : in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 11, [Serle, G. (ed.)], Melbourne University Press.

  • (1925), Australian Woman’s Mirror, 08-11.

See also

  • 'Heritage: Section 5, plate 189'.
  • 'Miss M.E. Roberts, photograph by May & Mina Moore from Lone Hand 1 August 1913 (Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW).'.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage: The National Women's Art Book