• Entry type: Person
  • Entry ID: AWE0804

Johnston, Isabella Jane

  • Also known as Johnston, Isabel
    Maiden name Miller, Isabella
(1891 – 1976)
  • Occupation Community worker

Summary

Isabella Johnston (née Miller) was born at Barrhead, Scotland in 1891. She joined her aunt Amelia MacDonald in Perth, Western Australia, in 1910 and became active in the Perth Women’s Service Guilds of which her aunt [Amelia MacDonald] was a founder member.

Archival resources

  • State Library of Western Australia
    • Papers, 1909-1991 [manuscript]
    • Isabel Johnston [picture]

Published resources

  • Book
    • Women justices and the Women Justices' Association of WA : a history of the Womens Justices' Association., Johnston, Isabellea, 1891-1976, 1958
    • Women on the warpath : feminist of the first wave, Davidson, Dianne, 1997
    • Looking back 50 years in relation to the establishment of a maternity hospital for women, 1909-1959., Johnston, Isabel., 1959
    • The West Australian Women's Parliament : history., Johnston, Isabel, 1959
  • Resource

Related entries


  • President
    • Women's Service Guilds of Western Australia (1909 - 1997)
  • Related Women
    • Macdonald, Amelia Morrison Fraser (1865 - 1946)