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Unbridling the Tongues of Women: a biography of Catherine Helen Spence

Unbridling the Tongues of Women: a biography of Catherine Helen Spence

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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.

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Keywords

  • 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
  • Adelaide
  • Biography
  • Catherine Helen
  • Feminism & feminist theory
  • Feminists
  • History
  • History: earliest times to present day
  • Humanities
  • Social conditions
  • Social issues & processes
  • Social reformers
  • Society & culture: general
  • Society & Social Sciences
  • south australia
  • Spence
  • Suffragists
  • Women's rights

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DOI: 10.1017/UPO9780980672305

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