Jeanette Anne Gilbert

Gilbert was born in 1883 in the Red Hill suburb of Brisbane joining ten siblings.

In 1922, she was allowed a year's leave to obtain the University of Melbourne's Diploma of Education which was a rare achievement for a woman.

With her qualifications, she was set to teach teenage trainee teachers educational theory, music, and needlework.

[2] Gilbert published a guide to needlework, making clothes and how to teach those skills in school in 1934.

[citation needed] She would abandon the curriculum to lecture her charges about their duties to their employers and to themselves and how they were expected to be an example to their students.