- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE0221
Spence, Catherine Helen
(1825 – 1910)- Born 31 October 1825, Near Melrose, , Scotland
- Died 3 April 1910, Adelaide, South Australia
- Occupation Campaigner, Suffragist, Writer
Summary
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.
Events
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2001
Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women
Archival resources
- State Library of South Australia
- National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection
- Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection
Published resources
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Report
- Catherine Helen Spence: her achievements and firsts, State Library of South Australia; Suzane Fabian and Morag Loh, 13 March 1998, http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/int_pubs/women/spence1.htm
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Book
- Catherine Spence, Janet Cooper, 1972
- An autobiography, Spence, Catherine Helen [edited and introduced by Jeanne F. Young], 1975
- Catherine Helen Spence : a study and an appreciation, Young, Jeanne F, 1937
- Tenacious of the past : the recollections of Helen Brodie, Catherine Helen Spence; edited by Judy King and Graham Tulloch., c1994
- Works of Catherine Helen Spence, Catherine Helen Spence, 197-?
- Bibliography of Catherine Helen Spence / [compiled in the Research Service of the Public Library of South Australia by Elizabeth Gunton, Gunton, Elizabeth Joan, 1967
- Unbridling the tongues of women : A Biography of Catherine Helen Spence, Magarey, Susan, c1985
- First of all, Tony Brooks, 1995
- In her own name. A history of women in South Australia from 1836, Helen Jones, 1986
- John's Notable Australians, 1906, Johns, Fred, 1905
- The Changemakers : Ten Significant Australian Women, Suzane Fabian and Morag Loh, 1983
- Living in South Australia : a social history, Elizabeth Kwan, 1987
- Australian women writers : a bibliographic guide, Adelaide, Debra, 1988
- Uphill all the way: a documentary history of women in Australia, Daniels, Kay and Murnane, Mary, 1980
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Resource
- Trove: Spence, Catherine Helen (1825-1910), http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-529663
- Catherine Helen Spence: a bibliography, Barbara Wall, 2001, http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/spence/index.html
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Resource Section
- Spence, Catherine Helen (1825-1911), Eade, Susan, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A060190b.htm
- Edited Book
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Site Exhibition
- The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders
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