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Catherine Helen Spence

Significance

  • Writer
  • Preacher
  • Feminist
  • Reformer

Memorable Achievements

  • First female journalist
  • Joined the fight for female suffrage
  • Co-founder of the first fostering-out scheme for children.
  • First female political candidate
  • First fighter for effective voting

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Her work for political and electoral reform is still having its effects on the life of the nation

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-Ann Milne, 1975

Controversy

  • The betterment of women and children in society.
  • Her book were considered 'scandalous' as they focussed on the roles of women in society.

Early Life

31 October 1825 Catherine was born

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a teacher first and a writer afterwards

1839

Immigrated to Australia

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Early life

1843

Her father was elected Town Clerk

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1843

fathers death

after the breakup of the manucipality and loss of his income, my father lost health and spirits

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Contribution to Federation

Contribution to Federation

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[I] had the feeling that in our new colonies the reform would meet with less obstruction than in old countries bound by precedent and prejudiced by vested interests. Parliament is the preserve of the wealthy in the United Kingdom, in Australia it will not be

- Catherine Helen Spence

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Her influence on Australia changed the right of women being able to vote, as well as being able to stand for Parliament house.

First novel

(1854)

Journalism and Literature

Clara Morrison: a Tale of South Australia During the Gold Fever

Novel (1856)

Journalism and Literature

Spence wrote short pieces of writing for the Adelaide Newspaper under her brothers' name because editors felt that it would be 'unseemly' for a woman to be writing.

Tender and True

Final Novel (1984)

Handfasted

Firsts and Achievements

First

Female political candidate

fighter for effective voting

female member of several reform boards

co-founder of the first fostering-out scheme for schildren

Proffessional woman journalist in Australia

woman novelist in Australia

Firsts and Achievements

Achievements

Pioneering the children's courts in Australia

Wrote the first legal studies textbook produced in Australia

Among the first to combat the squatter's monopoly of land

helping women workers

progress for women within her lifetime

in the feminist cause-equality of oppoirunity

combating political ignorance among women

public speaker pioneering the public vioce of women

Preaching from the pulpit

A proud free-thinker

Recignition

Wall plaque in Melrose, Scotland

Death: 3 April 1910

Recognition

Memorials

  • Bronze statue in Light Square
  • The Catherine Helen Spence building in the University of South Australia.
  • The Spence Wing of the State Library of SA
  • Catherine Helen Spence Street near the city centre
  • Plaque in city centre

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The most distinguished woman in Australia

Catherine's feature on the five dollar note in 2001

- Sir Samual James Way, 1905

References

Catherine Helen Spence facts- https://kids.kiddle.co/Catherine_Helen_Spence

Catherine Helen Spence: her achievements and firsts- https://women-and-politics.collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/spence1.htm#First%20female%20political%20candidate

Catherine Helen Spence- https://guides.slsa.sa.gov.au/c.php?g=410238&p=2794979

Biography of Catherine Helen Spence- http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/viewing/L9445/about1.html

Catherine Helen Spence: Our first female writer, journalist, politician and icon- https://www.thebigsmoke.com.au/2017/09/15/catherine-spence-first-female-writer-journalist-politician-icon-women/

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