Ursula Hope McConnel b. 27 October 1888

  • Artist (Photographer)
McConnel had a full academic career which involved research in both London and Australia. Yet despite publishing regular scholarly articles and receiving a Rockefeller Fellowship for study at Yale, she was refused academic employment and denied a PhD in Australia. She did a lot of fieldwork on Indigenous Australians.

Citations

  • O’Gorman, Anne (1993), 'The snake the serpent and the rainbow: Ursula McConnel and Aboriginal Australians’, First in Their Field, [Marcus, Julie (ed.)], Melbourne, Vic.

  • (1 December 1931), B.P. Magazine.

  • Gibbney, H.J.; and Smith, Ann G. (1987), 'A Biographical Register 1788-1939’, Canberra, ACT.

  • Perusco, Anne O’Gorman (2000), 'Ursula Hope McConnel’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 15, [Ritchie, John (ed.)], p.178 (for changes), Melbourne, Vic.

  • Information sourced from Lennon, Jane.

See also

  • 'Section 4: plate 172', Heritage biography.
  • 'Miss Ursula McConnel, M.A., of Toogoolawah, Queensland, photograph by Judith Fletcher, B.P. Magazine 1 Dec, 1931.'.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage: The National Women's Art Book