Chase, Muriel Jean Eliot (1880-1936)

Also known as
AdrienneCooper, Muriel Jean EliotMary, Aunt (1880-1936)
Field of activity
Community worker, Journalist and Print Journalist; charity worker; columnist; journalist
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CHASE, MURIEL JEAN ELIOT (1880-1936), journalist and philanthropist, was born on 2 July 1880 at Geraldton, Western Australia, eldest of the four children of John Henry Cooper and his wife Priscilla Richenda, née Eliot. On her mother's side she was descended from the Marshall Waller Cliftons, pioneers of Australind, and through Mrs Clifton was related to the great English social worker, Elizabeth Fry. Her maternal grandfather, George Eliot, arrived in Western Australia in 1829, accompanying his cousin (Sir) James Stirling, first governor of the colony.

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A foundation member of the Karrakatta Club and the Women Writer’s Club, Muriel Chase was social editress of the West Australian from 1903.

In addition to writing for the West Australian, Chase wrote for the Western Mail under the pseudonym of Adrienne, and campaigned for more social welfare services throughout the Western Australian community. She wrote for the paper’s Children’s Corner as ‘Aunt Mary’, and recruited her younger readers as ‘silver links in a chain of service’. In this way she helped to establish the Silver Chain District Nursing Association, raising enough money by 1904 to fund a district nurse who visited her patients by bicycle. The work of the district nurse raised awareness in the community of the need for hospitals and homes, both for infants and the elderly. Occasionally, Chase herself would relieve the district nurse on night duty.

Born Muriel Cooper, she had married Ernest Edward Chase in 1900. A much-loved member of the Western Australian community, she was survived by two daughters.

  • c. 1900 - c. 1910 Career in journalism active

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Australian Dictionary of Biography Online

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  1. Chase, Muriel Jean Eliot (1880 - 1936)Australian Dictionary of Biography Online : Chase, Muriel Jean Eliot (1880 - 1936)
    Stewart, Noel
    [2006]
    Published: Australian National University
    Series: http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070630b.htm
  2. In Her Gift: Women Philanthropists in Australian History
    Australian Women's Archives Project
    [2009]
    Published: Australian Women's Archives Project
    Series: http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wiph/home.html
  3. 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

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  1. Muriel Cooper (later Mrs Ernest Chase)
    The Studio, Hay Street
    [ Photograph : 1890 ]
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  3. Mrs Muriel Chase [picture]
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