• 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

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

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