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.
| Autorius: | Susan Magarey |
| Leidėjas: | University of Adelaide Press |
| Išleidimo metai: | 2010 |
| Knygos puslapių skaičius: | 246 |
| ISBN-10: | 0980672317 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780980672312 |
| Formatas: | 254 x 178 x 13 mm. Knyga minkštu viršeliu |
| Kalba: | Anglų |
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