HerStory
Margaret TART
Also known as: née Scarlett
Born: 28 August 1865
Died: 27 July 1916
Special Achievements:1888 - First European woman to travel up the Sun-Ning River from Canton, China (visiting husband's mother). Margaret was an Australian school teacher married to a Chinese tea merchant from Sydney.
Resources
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Image - Margaret Tart
Margaret Tart (nee Scarlett) ca. 1870-1910
Photo used with permission of the State Library of New South Wales; now out of copyright.
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References
Hope, Deborah. A date with our forgotten heroines. newspaper unknown. January 10, 1984:7.
Culture Victoria. "Quong Tart, wife Margaret, and family, 1903".
Australian Dictionary of Biography. "Mei Quong Tart (1850–1903)".
