Mawson, Francisca Adriana (Paquita) | AWR

Entry type: Person
Entry ID: AWE5214

Mawson, Francisca Adriana (Paquita)

OBE

(1891 – 1974)

Born 19 August, 1891, London Middlesex England
Died 26 May, 1974
Occupation Biographer, Charity worker, Community worker

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Summary

Read more about Francisca Adriana Mawson in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.

Archival resources

State Library of South Australia
- Kathleen Hilfers : SUMMARY RECORD
National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection
- Papers of the Mawson family, 1898-1997 [manuscript]
National Library of Australia
- [Biographical cuttings on Lady Francisca Adriana Paquita Mawson, wife of the late explorer Sir Douglas Mawson, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals]

Published resources

Resource
- Trove: Mawson, Paquita (1891-1974), http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-503848
Site Exhibition
- The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders

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