Unbridling the tongues of women : a biography of Catherine Helen Spence

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dc.contributor.authorMagarey, S.
dc.date.issued2010
dc.descriptionType of work : Book Extent : 214 p. : 23 cm.
dc.description.abstractA pioneer for women - 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.
dc.description.statementofresponsibilitySusan Magarey
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/UPO9780980672305
dc.identifier.isbn9780980672305
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2440/64815
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Adelaide Press
dc.publisher.placeAustralia
dc.rights© Susan Magarey 1985, 2010
dc.source.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/upo9780980672305
dc.titleUnbridling the tongues of women : a biography of Catherine Helen Spence
dc.typeCreative work
pubs.publication-statusPublished

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