| Description |
1 online resource (xxviii, 214 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
| Contents |
Acquiring a room of her own -- The line of least resistance -- Faith and enlightenment -- Edging out of the domestic sphere -- Learning for the future -- Round woman in her round hole -- Prophet of the effective vote -- The New Woman of South Australia: Grand Old Woman of Australia |
| Summary |
"Originally published in 1985, this revised edition with an updated Introduction, is being published by the University of Adelaide Press to commemorate the anniversary of Catherine Helen Spence's death on 3 April 1910. Catherine Helen Spence was a charismatic public speaker in the late nineteenth century, a time when women were supposed to speak only at their own firesides. In challenging the custom and convention that confined middle-class women to the domestic sphere, she was carving a new path into the world of public politics along which other women would follow, in the first Australian colony to win votes for women. She was also much more -- a novelist deserving comparison with George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman; a pioneering woman journalist; a 'public intellectual' a century before the term was coined; a philanthropic innovator in social welfare and education, with an influence reaching far beyond South Australia; Australia's first female political candidate. A 'New Woman', she declared herself. The 'Grand Old Woman of Australia' others called her"--Publisher's description |
| Analysis |
Women's rights |
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Social conditions |
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Spence, Catherine Helen |
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History |
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Suffragists |
| Notes |
Originally published: Sydney : Hale & Iremonger, ©1985 |
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With an updated introduction |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-206) and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Spence, Catherine Helen, 1825-1910
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| SUBJECT |
Spence, Catherine Helen, 1825-1910 fast |
| Subject |
Women authors, Australian -- Biography
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Women in public life -- Australia
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Women's rights -- Australia -- History
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Women.
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Women's rights
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Women in public life
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Women authors, Australian
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Australia
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| Genre/Form |
collective biographies.
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780980672305 |
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0980672309 |
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