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Aug 2, 1861 - Edith Cowan (Edith Dircksey Brown) was born on 2 August, 1861 at Glengary near Geraldton in Western Australia. She was the second child of Kenneth Brown, a pastoralist and tutor Mary Eliza Dircksey.
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Edith Cowan was born on the 2nd august 1861 and sadly died in 1932.
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Edith Brown married James Cowan and they had 5 children. They had 4 daughters and1 son.
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Edith cowan had her first child when she was 21
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Edith cowan ha her second child in 1883
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She had her third child in 1884
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Edith had 4 children in 5 years,
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In 1894, Edith Cowan was one of the founders of the Karrakatta Club, which became the centre of a movement for reform, making Edith Cowan the best known woman in Australia the first 30 years of this century.
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Edith was voted by the whole of Western Australia to be th first ever women polition to be accepted into parliment
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Her death was a tragety for everyone who knew her. she was buried in Karrakatta Cemetery, she will lie there being known as Edith Cowan, the first woman selected into parliment.
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Edith was buried at Karrakatta Cemetery shortly after her death.
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Edith Cowan would be 149 if she was stil living today.
