Catherine Helen Spence was an Australian author, social reformer, and feminist, born on October 31, 1825, and died on April 3, 1910. She is best known for her novel 'The Story of the Glens' and her advocacy for women's suffrage. Spence was a key figure in the women's suffrage movement in South Australia and contributed significantly to social reform movements.
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“Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner.”
Source: Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)
“I had seen Adelaide the dearest and the cheapest place to live in.”
Source: Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)
“I look back to a happy childhood.”
Source: Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)
Source: An autobiography
“The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods.”
Source: An autobiography
Source: An autobiography
Source: Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)
Source: An autobiography
“A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea.”
Source: Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)
Source: An autobiography
Source: Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)
Source: Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)
“I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both.”
Source: Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)
“My return to London introduced me to a wider range of society.”
Source: Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)
Source: An autobiography
Source: Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)
“South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections.”
Source: An autobiography
“My brothers went to the parish school, one of the best in the county.”
Source: An autobiography
“There is nothing so costly to the state as a ruined life”
Source: State Children in Australia: A History of Boarding Out and Its Developments
Source: An autobiography