Spence, Catherine Helen (1825 - 1910)

Spence ran as a South Australian delegate to the Federal Constitutional Convention in 1897, the first woman political candidate in Australia. She was also active in the Women's Suffrage League and the South Australian National Council of Women.

Founding member

• National Council of Women of South Australia (1902 - )

Friend and Colleague

• Henry, Alice (1857 - 1943)

Related Corporate Bodies

• League of Women Voters of South Australia (1909 - 1979)
• Woman’s League (1895 - 1897)

  Supported the formation of the Woman's League by her niece Lucy Morice

Related People

• Birks, Rosetta Jane (Rose) (1856 - 1911)

  Fellow member of the South Australian Women's Suffrage League and the National Council of Women

• Colton, Mary (1822 - 1898)

  worked together on the Boarding-Out Society which was concerned with the plight of orphaned and neglected children

• Lake, Serena Thorne (1842 - 1902)

  Fellow member of the South Australian Women's Suffrage Society

• Nicholls, Elizabeth Webb (1850 - 1943)

  Fellow member of the South Australian Women's Suffrage League

• Young, Jeanne Forster (1876 - 1955)

  Jeanne Young joined Catherine Helen Spence in campaigning for proportional representation and completed Spence's autobiography (in the first person) after her death.

Books

• Catherine Helen Spence, Works of Catherine Helen Spence, University of Queensland Press, Microform Division, St. Lucia, Qld, 197-?. [ Details... ]
• Catherine Helen Spence; edited by Judy King & Graham Tulloch., Tenacious of the past : the recollections of Helen Brodie, Libraries Board of South Australia, Adelaide, c1994, 91 pp. [ Details... ]
• Magarey, Susan, Unbridling the tongues of women : A Biography of Catherine Helen Spence, Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, c1985, 240 pp. [ Details... ]
• Spence, Catherine Helen [edited and introduced by Jeanne F. Young], An autobiography, Libraries Board of South Australia, Adelaide, 1975, 110 pp. [ Details... ]
• Young, Jeanne F, Catherine Helen Spence : a study and an appreciation, Lothian, Melbourne, 1937, 208 pp. [ Details... ]

See also

• Adelaide, Debra, Australian women writers : a bibliographic guide, Title Australian women writers : a bibliographic guide / Debra Adelaide. Published, Pandora Press, London ; Sydney, 1988, 208 pp. [ Details... ]
• Barbara Wall, Catherine Helen Spence: a bibliography, State Library of South Australia, 2001, http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/spence/index.html. [ Details... ]
• Daniels, Kay, Uphill all the way, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, Qld, 1980, 335 pp. [ Details... ]
• Elizabeth Kwan, Living in South Australia : a social history, South Australian Government Printer, Netley, S. Aust., 1987, 2 v. (xiv, 194; xiv, 201 p.) pp. [ Details... ]
• Gunton, Elizabeth Joan, Bibliography of Catherine Helen Spence / [compiled in the Research Service of the Public Library of South Australia by Elizabeth Gunton, Libraries Board of South Australia, Adelaide, 1967, 34 pp. [ Details... ]
• Helen Jones, In her own name. A history of women in South Australia from 1836, Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 1986, 356 pp. [ Details... ]
• Janet Cooper, Catherine Spence, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1972, 30 pp. [ Details... ]
• Johns, Fred, John's Notable Australians, 1906, George Robertson & Company Proprietary Limited, Adelaide, 1905, 218 pp. [ Details... ]
• Radi, Heather (ed.), 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Women's Redress Press, Sydney, 1988, 258 pp. (Also available at http://www.200australianwomen.com/) [ Details... ]
• State Library of South Australia; Suzane Fabian and Morag Loh, Catherine Helen Spence: her achievements and firsts, State Library of South Australia, 13 March 1998, http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/int_pubs/women/spence1.htm. [ Details... ]
• Suzane Fabian and Morag Loh, The changemakers : ten significant Australian women, Jacaranda Press, Milton, Qld., 1983, 190 pp. [ Details... ]
• Tony Brooks, First of all, AXIOM, Adelaide, 1995. [ Details... ]