Florence Mary Taylor (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Florence Mary Taylor CBE 29 December 1879, Bedminster, England - 13 February 1969, Sydney, Australia was the first qualified female architect and the first woman to train as an engineer in Australia. She was also the first woman in Australia to fly in a heavier-than-air craft in 1909. However she is best known for her role as publisher, editor and writer for the influential building industry trade journals established in 1907 with her husband George, which she ran and expanded after his death in 1928 until her retirement in 1961.