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[[File:Annie Carvosso (Who's who at the 3d Intl Congress of Women, 1909).png|thumb|Annie Carvosso, 1909]]
'''Annie Carvosso''' ({{nee}} '''Eliza Ann Adams'''; 18 August 1861 – 20 February  1932) was an English-born Australian activist and social reformer engaged in work for women and children in [[Queensland]].<ref name="Club1909">{{cite book | author = Canadian Women's Press Club | date = 1909 | title = Who's who at the 3d International Congress of Women... | publisher = International council of women | page = 25 | oclc = 67314312 | url = https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015027572927&view=1up&seq=27}}</ref> She was associated with many philanthropic movements,<ref name="BC-23feb32">{{cite news |title=The Brisbane Courier/1932/Obituary: Mrs W. H. Carvosso |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Brisbane_Courier/1932/Obituary:_Mrs_W._H._Carvosso |access-date=18 December 2022 |work=The Brisbane Courier |via=Wikisource |date=23 February 1932 |page=13 |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref> as well as charitable and social welfare activities,<ref name="TheAge-1mar1932">{{cite news |title=ABOUT PEOPLE |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/121158711/?terms=Mrs%20W.%20H.%20Carvosso&match=1 |access-date=18 December 2022 |work=The Age |via=Newspapers.com |date=1 March 1932 |page=7 |language=en}}</ref> including the [[National Council of Women of Queensland]], the [[Australian Federation of Women Voters]], and the Australian [[Woman's Christian Temperance Union]] (W.C.T.U.).<ref name="Cherrington-1925">{{cite book |last1=Cherrington |first1=Ernest Hurst |title=Standard Encyclopedia of the Alcohol Problem |date=1925 |publisher=American Issue Publishing Company |volume=2 |via=Internet Archive |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/standardencyclop02cher/page/529 |page=529 |chapter=CARVOSSO, ANNIE (ADAMS) |access-date=18 December 2022 |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref>
==Early life and career==
[[File:Officers from the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Brisbane, October 1901.jpg|thumb|Officers from the W.C.T.U., Brisbane, 1901. Front row (l-r): Mrs Carvosso (President), Mrs Brentnall (Treasurer), Mrs Murray (Honourable Secretary). Back row: Mrs T. Bryce (Hon. Treasurer), Mrs E. B. Harris (Vice-President-at-Large)]]
Eliza Ann Adams was born at [[Camborne]], England, [[Cornwall]] on 18 August 1861.<ref name="Cherrington-1925" />
She was educated privately and at the Teachers’ Training College, [[Sydney]], [[New South Wales]], her family having removed to Australia in 1871.<ref name="Cherrington-1925" />
From 1880 to 1884, she devoted herself to teaching.<ref name="Cherrington-1925" />
==Career==
In 1885, she married William Henry Carvosso, of [[Brisbane]], [[Queensland]], sheriff of the Supreme Court,<ref name="TheAge-1mar1932" /> afterward making her home in that city. During the first year of her residence there, [[Mary Greenleaf Clement Leavitt]], the [[White ribbon|White Ribbon]] [[missionary]] from the U.S., then touring Australia, reached Brisbane, to begin her work of organizing the W.C.T.U. in Queensland. Carvosso was one of the first Queensland women to enroll in the Union, becoming a charter member of the local organization, the Central Union of the W.C.T.U. in Brisbane, which was formed 3 September 1885. She was elected president of that branch in 1900, a position which Carvosso held for 25 years.<ref name="BC-23feb32" />
She served as corresponding secretary of the State Union from 1889 to 1914, with only a short interval in which she filled the office of president. From 1903, she was corresponding secretary of the Australasian W.C.T.U. At the Tenth Triennial Convention of the latter body, in 1918, Carvosso was elected a life member of the World’s W.C.T.U.<ref name="Cherrington-1925" /> As secretary of the Australian W.C.T.U., she went as delegate to the World Convention in the U.S. in 1922.<ref name="BC-23feb32" />
Under Lady [[Mary Harriett Griffith|Griffith]], Carvosso was associated with the Lady Lamington Hospital in Brisbane of which she was honorary secretary for 11 years. She was the first inter-State secretary of the National Council of Women of Queensland<ref name="TheAge-1mar1932" /> of which she afterwards became president, and for many years, she was connected with the Junior Christian Endeavour at the old [[Wharf Street Congregational Church, Brisbane]].<ref name="BC-23feb32" />
With gifts for record-keeping and letter writing, Carvosso was in charge of the literature department of the W.C.T.U.<ref name="BC-23feb32" /> She compiled a "Handbook" for the use of W.C.T.U. workers, and also edited the Australian paper, ''The White Ribbon Outlook''.<ref name="Cherrington-1925" />
==Death==
Annie Carvosso died at [[New Farm, Queensland]] on 20 February 1932.<ref name="BC-23feb32" />
==References==
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==External links==
* Carvosso, Annie, [https://books.google.com/books?id=JBFHAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA348 "Report of Queensland National Council of Women"], ''Report of Transactions of the Fourth Quinquennial Meeting Held at Toronto, Canada, June, 1909'' (London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1910)
* Carvosso, Annie, [https://books.google.com/books?id=D8w0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA108 "Queensland. National Council of Women. Report on Public Health."], ''The Health of the Nations: Compiled from Special Reports of the National Councils of Women.'' (Aberdeen: Printed at the Rosemount Press, 1909)
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