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Bage, Anna Frederika (1883-1970)

Also known as
Bage, Freda
Occupation
academic; biologist; motoring adventurer; sports administrator; women's activist
Persistent Identifier
http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-707082

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Australian Women's Register

Anna Bage was a talented scientist who worked her way through the junior ranks of the Department of Biology at the University of Melbourne to became a forerunner of women in public life in Queensland to where she moved in 1914 to take up the position of lecturer in charge of biology in 1913. In 1914 she became principal of the Women's College, a position she held for the next 32 years. She was committed to the cause of encouraging women to become tertiary educated and travelled widely throughout Queensland to promote her college to rural communities. She was a member of many women's interest groups, and played a lead rolein the formation of the Queensland Women Graduates' Association (later the Queensland Association of University Women). She was president of the Australian Federation of University Women in 1928-29. Anna Bage's interests were many and varied. A nature lover, patron of the arts and motoring enthusiast, Bage was also a member of several women's sporting associations.She managed the first hockey team in Australia to travel interstate, from Melbourne to Adelaide in 1908, and was president of the Queensland Women's Hockey Association in 1925-31. She was appointed OBE - Officer of The Order of the British Empire (Civil) - 12 June 1941 for public service.

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Australian Dictionary of Biography Online

BAGE, ANNA FREDERIKA (1883-1970), university teacher, was born on 11 April 1883 at St Kilda, Victoria, daughter of Edward Bage, wholesale chemist, and his wife Mary Charlotte, née Lange. When her father, a junior partner in Felton, Grimwade & Co., died in July 1891 his widow took the three children to England where she enrolled them in the Oxford High School for girls. Returning to Melbourne in 1894, Freda went to Fairlight School. Inspired by her father's amateur scientific interests, she entered Janet Clarke Hall, University of Melbourne, in 1901, and after failing first year graduated B.Sc. in 1905 and M.Sc. with second-class honours in 1907. She then worked as a junior demonstrator in biology, sharing the MacBain Research Scholarship in 1907 and winning a Victorian government research scholarship in 1908. Next year she read two papers to the Royal Society of Victoria, then went to England on a King's College, London, research scholarship; her work under A. Dendy in 1910-11 led to a fellowship of the Linnean Society. Returning to the University of Melbourne as senior demonstrator, she was appointed lecturer in charge of biology at the University of Queensland in 1913, and became first principal of The Women's College within that university on 8 February 1914.

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Australian Women's Register

  1. Bage, Anna Frederika (1883 - 1970), Biographical Entry
    [2002]
    Published: Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
  2. Bage, Anna Frederika (Freda) (1883 - 1970)
    Bell, Jacqueline
    [2006]
    Published: Australian National University
  3. She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History
    Australian Women's Archives Project
    [2007]
    Published: Australian Women's Archives Project
  4. Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989
    Australian Women's Archives Project
    [2003]
    Published: Australian Women's Archives Project
  5. Where are the Women in Australian science?
    Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
    [2003]
    Published: Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
  6. Who's who in Australia 1950
    Alexander, Joseph A
    [1950]
    Published: The Herald, Melbourne
  7. Degrees of liberation : a short history of women in the University of Melbourne
    Kelly, Farley
    [1985]
    Published: Women Graduates Centenary Committee, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic.
  8. 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology
    Radi, Heather
    [1988]
    Published: Women's Redress Press, Sydney
  9. Anna Frederika Bage - Records
    [1907 - 1913]
    Records c1907-13.
    Janet Clarke Hall, University of Melbourne
  10. Anna Frederika Bage - Records
    [1913 - 1946]
    Information in file S279 c1913-50.
    The University of Queensland Archives
    S279
  11. Anna Frederika Bage - Records
    [1907 - 1914]
    Records c1907-14.
    The University of Melbourne Archives

Australian Dictionary of Biography Online

  1. 'Bage, Anna Frederika (Freda) (1883 - 1970)' - Australian Dictionary of Biography
    Jacqueline Bell
    [1979]
    Published: Melbourne University Press
    Series: Volume 7
    pp 131-132.

Resources By Anna Frederika Bage (1)

  1. Portrait of Freda Bage by Sir William Dargie
    Bage, Freda, 1883-1970
    [Unpublished : 1900]

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  2. National Council of Women of Queensland. 1905-
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