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Anderson Maybanke is born.
Maybanke Susannah Anderson (1845-1927), feminist and educationist, was born on 16 February 1845 at Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey, England, daughter of Henry Selfe, plumber, and his wife Elizabeth, née Smith. She arrived in Sydney in January 1855 with her parents and brothers including Norman and was educated as a teacher, which she later attributed to her mother's 'strong personality'. -
Anderson Maybanke is married.
On 3 September 1867 at St Philip's Church of England, Sydney, Maybanke married Edmund Kay Wolstenholme, a timber ccommerce from West Maitland
By 1871 they were living at Balmain and he later became an accountant. Late in the 1870s the Wolstenholmes moved to the outskirts of Marrickville and by 1882 had built a large new home. -
Maybanke was a foundation vice-president.
In 1891 Maybanke was a foundation vice-president of the Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales and president in 1893-96. From 1892 she was also a member of the Women's Literary Society, a group which had serious mental and feminist desire, and in 1893 was a founder and secretary-treasurer of the Australasian Home Reading Union which sought to spread systematic reading by set up small study circles in country areas. -
Maybanke Wolstenholme married to Congeregational rite (sir).
On 2 March 1899 Maybanke Wolstenholme married with Congregational rites (Sir) Francis Anderson, professor of thinking at the University of Sydney, and devoted herself increasingly to university activities. A regular speaker and hostess, she was an organiser of the University Women's Society and gave special attention to the Women Evening Students' Association, perhaps because it symbolised the spirit of bold self-help that women needed to grasp the opportunities becoming available to them. -
Anderson Maybanke is moving to Manly.
For some years after their marriage the Anderson's lived at Manly, then obtain a place at Pittwater where Maybanke could farm and garden, knit and sew, as well as write numerous, booklet and pieces for the press. In 1919 she published Mother Lore, a handbook on developing the intelligence of babies and the education of young children. A member of the Royal Australian Historical Society, she published the 'Story of Pittwater' in its Journal and Proceedings (1920). -
Towards the death of Anderson Susannah Maybanke.
Towards the end of that year the Andersons set off on a third tour of Europe. Maybanke sent articles about her travels to the Sydney Morning Herald until she died on 15 April 1927 at St Germain-en-Laye, Paris. Predeceased by two sons and two daughters, she was survived by two sons of her first marriage to whom she left her estate, valued for probate at £2725. Harry Wolstenholme became a solicitor and an amateur ornithologist of repute.