Isabelle Bean
Isabelle Bean (* 1862 in Salisbury , Wiltshire , England ; † May 14, 1939 in South Brisbane near Brisbane , Australia ; born Isabelle Gater ) was an English-Australian nurse , suffragette , feminist and theosophist .
life and work
Bean was in 1862 in Salisbury , daughter of William John Gater and Elizabeth Knight born. The father was an iron trader, the parents' house of the mother, daughter of an Anglican clergyman, was characterized by an atmosphere of liberal religiosity. Training as a nurse at Salisbury Hospital. In the early 1880s, Bean emigrated to Australia for health reasons, where she married Erik Gustaf Edelfelt († 1895) on February 5, 1886 in Redfern (near Sydney ) . After the death of her first husband, she married William George John († 1917) in Ashfield on November 23, 1901 . After his death, Bean married John Willoughby Butler Bean on March 2, 1922 in Sydney .
Armed with a revolver, Bean accompanied her first husband on his natural history expeditions through New Guinea from 1886 . After further training at the women's hospital in Melbourne in 1894, she worked independently in maternal care. In addition, she devoted herself to social work, welfare and was involved in the women's movement .
In the second half of the 1890s she joined the Theosophical Society Adyar (Adyar-TG). When her second husband, William George John, became general secretary of the Australian section of the Adyar-TG in 1901, Bean acted as his assistant. She gave weekly theosophical lectures and in 1908 she accompanied Annie Besant as a secretary on her advertising tour of Australia. She also worked as a secretary for the theosophical organizations Order of the Round Table and Order of the Star in the East , and in 1931 she represented the Theosophical Order of Service (TOS) at the National Council of Women of Australia (National Council of women of Australia).
Web links
- HJ Gibbney: Isabelle Bean . In: Douglas Pike (Ed.): Australian Dictionary of Biography . Melbourne University Press, Carlton (Victoria) 1966–2012 (English).
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| SURNAME | Bean, Isabelle |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English-Australian nurse, suffragette, feminist and theosophist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1862 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Salisbury , Wiltshire, England |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 14, 1939 |
| Place of death | South Brisbane , Australia |