This biography is republished from The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia. Written by Dorothy Erickson, Independent Scholar. See below for full attribution.
Born: 18 January 1879, Australia
Died: 4 August 1974
Country most active: Australia
Also known as: Eva Bright, Daisy Temple Poole, Mary Temple
Daisy Mary Rossi was a leading Western Australian artist, designer and writer. She moved in influential government, artistic and feminist circles. Rossi exhibited in the First Australian Exhibition of Women’s Work in Victoria (1907), taught at the Fremantle Technical School, worked as an interior designer and became the first female member of the Town Planning Association in 1917.
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Work cited
Dorothy Erickson, ‘Rossi, Daisy’, in The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Australian Women’s Archives Project, 2014, https://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0648b.htm, accessed 16 January 2022.