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Hassall, Eliza (1834 - 1917)

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Missionary

Born: 2 November 1834 Cobbitty, New South Wales, Australia. Died: 26 December 1917 Cobbitty.

Eliza Hassall founded the first Australian Scripture Union in 1880. In 1892, she offered her home at Ashfield as a training home for women missionaries under the Church Missionary Society. The Marsden Training Home was officially opened in 1893 with Hassall as superintendent.

Published Resources

See also

Australian Dictionary of Biography Online, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au. [ Details... ]
Radi, Heather (ed.), 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Women's Redress Press, Sydney, 1988, 258 pp. (Also available at http://www.200australianwomen.com/) [ Details... ]

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Prepared by: Barbara Lemon
Created: 3 October 2008
Modified: 27 October 2008

Published by National Foundation for Australian Women on Australian Women's Archives Project Web Site
Comments, questions, corrections and additions: awap@womenaustralia.info
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Updated: 23 December 2008
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