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Catherine Helen Spence: her achievements and firsts.
The range of Catherine Helen Spence’s interests and achievements are truly amazing. She had a huge impact on the development of South Australia. As an example of what women can achieve she merits a close look. The following summary of her life’s work is adapted and reproduced here with kind permission from Suzane Fabian from The changemakers: ten significant Australian women by Suzane Fabian and Morag Loh (Milton, Qld., Jacaranda Press, 1983).
Teacher, journalist, novelist, literary critic, social reformer, political theorist and activist, educator, feminist, public speaker, lay preacher. Catherine’s name is linked with an amazing list of ‘firsts’ and activities.
First female political candidate
First fighter for effective voting
First female member of several Reform Boards
Co-founder of the first fostering-out scheme for children
Pioneering the children’s courts in Australia
First professional woman journalist in Australia
First woman novelist in Australia
Wrote the first legal studies textbook produced in Australia
Among the first to combat the squatters’ monopoly of land
Helping women workers
Progress for women within her lifetime
In the feminist cause-equality of opportunity
Combating political ignorance among women
Public speaker pioneering the public voice of women
Preaching from the pulpit
A proud free-thinker
