Cilento, Phyllis, (Lady) (1894-1987)

Also known as
Cilento, Phyllis (1894-1987)
Cilento, Phyllis Dorothy, (Lady) (1894-1987)
Cilento, Phyllis Dorothy (1894-1987)
McGlew, Phyllis (1894-1987)
Medical Mother (1894-1987)
Field of activity
Doctor, Print Journalist, Radio Journalist, Women's rights activist, Social reformer, Journalist and Broadcaster; autobiographer/memoirist; general practitioner; medical writer; women's activist
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http://nla.gov.au/anbd.aut-an35102923
NLA Persistent Identifier
http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-472310

Biographies

CILENTO, PHYLLIS DOROTHY (1894-1987), medical practitioner and journalist, was born on 13 March 1894 at Rockdale, Sydney, only child of New South Wales-born parents Charles Thomas McGlew, shipbroker and coal merchant, and his wife Alice Lane, née Walker. The family moved to Adelaide when Phyllis was a small child. She attended Tormore House school and studied medicine at the University of Adelaide (MB, BS, 1918), where she played hockey and tennis, captaining the women’s tennis team for three years and winning a Blue. In 1918 she became engaged to (Sir) Raphael (`Ray’) Cilento, a fellow medical student. After graduating she worked as a house surgeon at the Adelaide Hospital.

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Lady Phyllis Cilento was born in Sydney on 13th March 1894 and educated in Adelaide, graduating MB, BS from the University of Adelaide. She did postgraduate work at hospitals and clinics in Malaysia, New Guinea, London, Paris and New York. Later moving to Brisbane with her husband, (doctor and medical administrator, Sir Ralph Cilento) she became a prominent member of the Queensland women's movement and highly influential in broader areas of public health. She was a medical columnist, broadcaster, journalist and author of several books. Her interests lay in nutition, vitamin therapy, family planning and antenatal and childcare. She founded the Queensland Mothercraft Assocation in 1930; the Queensland branch of the Business and Professional Women's Club and was president of the Queensland Medical Women's Association (1938-1947).

  • c. 1940 - c. 1960 Career in journalism active

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Australian Dictionary of Biography Online

Australian Women's Register

  1. Cilento, Phyllis Dorothy (1894 - 1987)Australian Dictionary of Biography Online Australian National University : Cilento, Phyllis Dorothy (1894 - 1987)
    Mahoney, Mary D.
    [2006]
    Series: http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A170211b.htm
  2. The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850
    Australian Women's Archives Project
    [2008]
    Published: Australian Women's Archives Project
    Series: http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html
  3. 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology
    Radi, Heather
    [1988]
    Published: Women's Redress Press
  4. Fryer Library and Department of Special Collections, University of Queensland: Phyllis Dorothy Cilento Papers
    Correspondence, diaries (1969-1975); typescript drafts of Courier-Mail "Medical Mother" column (1951-1979); Australian Home Journal (1965-1973); articles for the Newcastle Sun (1974-1979); drafts of broadcasts for 4BK "Medical Mother" programme; drafts of books; miscellaneous writings; lecture notes; speeches; newspaper cuttings, subject files; journals; books and pamphlets; scrapbook on Mothercraft Assocaition of Queensland; photographs.
    UQFL93

Resources by Phyllis Cilento (29)

  1. My life / Lady Cilento
    Cilento, Phyllis Lady, 1894-1987
    [ Book : 1987-1989 ]
    At 56 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 72.475)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 72.475)

  2. You live longer with Vitamin E / Lady Cilento
    Cilento, Phyllis Lady, 1894-1987
    [ Book : 1980 ]
    At 21 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 25.103)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 25.103)

  3. Nutrition of the child / Lady Cilento
    Cilento, Phyllis Lady, 1894-1987
    [ Book : 1980 ]
    At 14 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 21.502)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 21.502)

  4. My life / Lady Cilento
    Cilento, Phyllis Lady, 1894-1987
    [ Sound : 1987 ]
    At SA Pub Lib Network
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 20.432)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 20.432)

  5. You don't have to live with vitamin and mineral deficiencies / [by] Lady Cilento
    Cilento, Phyllis Lady, 1894-1987
    [ Book, Audio book : 1977 ]
    At 16 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 18.43)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 18.43)

  6. Medical mother / Lady Cilento
    Cilento, Phyllis Lady, 1894-1987
    [ Book, Audio book : 1982 ]
    At 31 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 16.796)

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  7. You can't live without Vitamin C / Lady Cilento
    Cilento, Phyllis Lady, 1894-1987
    [ Book, Audio book : 1979 ]
    At 26 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 14.476)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 14.476)

  8. Lady Cilento on vitamin and mineral deficiencies / Lady Cilento
    Cilento, Phyllis Lady, 1894-1987
    [ Book : 1983 ]
    At 25 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 14.068)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 14.068)

  9. Enjoy your family : a guide for parenthood / by Phyllis D. Cilento ; with a foreword by professor T.J. Rendle-Short
    Cilento, Phyllis Lady, 1894-1987
    [ Book : 1964 ]
    At 5 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 12.798)

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  10. Advantages of chelation therapy : a triumph over heart and artery disease / by Lady Cilento
    Cilento, Phyllis Lady, 1894-1987
    [ Book : 1985 ]
    At 8 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 12.711)

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  1. My life / Lady Cilento
    Cilento, Phyllis Lady, 1894-1987
    [ Book : 1987-1989 ]
    At 56 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 72.564)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 72.564)

  2. [Biographical cuttings on Lady Phyllis Cilento, doctor, nutritionist and writer, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals]
    [ Published : 1900-1990 ]
    At National Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 23.328)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 23.328)

  3. My life / Lady Cilento
    Cilento, Phyllis Lady, 1894-1987
    [ Sound : 1987 ]
    At SA Pub Lib Network
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 20.17)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 20.17)

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