(Mary) May Alice Holman was born in Broken Hill in 1893. She went on to become the first female Labor Party parliamentarian in Australia. She died in 1939.

Archival Resources

National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection

• Papers on various Australian women, c. 1900 - c. 1999, MS 842; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details

State Library of Western Australia

• Family papers: Holman, May, 1893-1939, 1893 - 1939, MN 405; State Library of Western Australia. Details

Published Resources

Journal Articles

• White, Kate, 'Mary Holman: 'Australian Labor's pioneer woman parliamentarian'', Labour History, vol. 41, November 1981, pp. 110-117. Details

Newspaper Articles

• 'Woman M.L.A. Visits Canberra: Labour Women Meet Miss May Holman', The Register News-Pictorial, 13 November 1929, p. 23. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article53438107. Details
• 'Labour Will Press For Equal Pay For Women at Next Election, Says Woman M.L.A.', Kalgoorlie Miner (Western Australia), 15 May 1937, p. 8. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article87573436. Details
• 'Labour Women's Manifesto', The Sydney Morning Herald, 11 October 1937, p. 8. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17418208. Details
• 'Equal Rights: Claims of Women's Labour Movement', Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate, 2 February 1937, p. 4. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article135192323. Details
• 'Miss May Holman Dead: First Woman Labour M.L.A. In Australia', Northern Star, 21 March 1939, p. 7. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article95486433. Details

Online Resources

• 'Holman, Mary (May) Alice (1893 - 1939)', The Australian Women's Register, National Foundation for Australian Women, http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE3701b.htm. Details
• Brown, Margaret, 'Holman, Mary Alice (May) (1893 - 1939)', in Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University (ANU), 1983, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/holman-mary-alice-may-6711. Details