Bessie Guthrie b. 1905

Also known as Bessie Mitchell, Bessie Jean Guthrie
  • Designer (Industrial / Product Designer),
  • Designer (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect),
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Bessie Jean (née Mitchell) Guthrie was a designer, publisher and feminist. She was the first woman to hold a solo design exhibition at the East Sydney Technical College. In 1939 she set up Viking Press, publishing anti-war material and poetry mainly by women.
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associate of
Workers Educational Association (WEA)
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associate of
Elsie Women's Refuge
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associate of
MeJane
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References [<ExternalResource: Bellamy, Sue (1988), 'Bessie Guthrie', 200 Australian Women, Redress Press, Sydney, pp 220-22.>]