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31 lug 2018 · Lady Phyllis and Sir Raphael Cilento in Brisbane in 1949. Picture: State Library of Queensland. It was there that she became interested in nutrition as a clinical clerk at the Hospital for Sick ...
Diane Cilento. Diane Cilento (2 April 1932 – 6 October 2011) was an Australian actress and writer. She is best known for her film roles in Tom Jones (1963), which earned her an Academy Award nomination, Hombre (1967) and The Wicker Man (1973). She also received a Tony Award nomination for her performance as Helen of Troy in the play Tiger at ...
22 feb 2019 · Phyllis Cilento has, in recent years, been lauded as Queensland’s great female medical pioneer, a title that rightfully belongs to another woman. However, the true story of Queensland’s ground-breaking female medical pioneer is a tale of not one, but two magnificent women, Lilian Cooper and Josephine Bedford.
Sir Raphael Cilento and his wife, Lady Phyllis Cilento, had busy lives. He was an expert in tropical medicine who had been tasked with the eradication of malaria and leprosy in Queensland.
The prints Cilento made at Atelier 17 across these years range from semi-abstract portraits, animal studies, and representations of mythical subjects, to fully abstract, expressively rendered plates, as seen in her spatial study Abstraction (1947) and three uniquely inked proofs of Abstract Expression (1947). 2 From 1954 to 1965 she lived abroad again in London, where she studied at the ...
Lady Phyllis Cilento was born in Sydney on 13 March 1894. She was educated in Adelaide, graduating with a MB, BS from the University of Adelaide. She undertook postgraduate work at hospitals and clinics in Malaysia, New Guinea, London, Paris and New York. Cilento was a medical columnist, broadcaster, journalist and author of several books.
Lady Phyllis Cilento broke through every glass ceiling in the medical world and overcame intense misogyny as a female doctor. She was the only woman in her University of Adelaide School of Medicine 1918 graduating class and went on to work at hospitals in London, Paris and New York.
