TY - GEN AU - Magarey,Susan TI - Unbridling the Tongues of Women: a biography of Catherine Helen Spence SN - UPO9780980672305 PY - 2010/// PB - University of Adelaide Press KW - 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 KW - bicssc KW - Feminism & feminist theory KW - women's rights KW - catherine helen KW - social conditions KW - history KW - suffragists KW - spence KW - Adelaide KW - South Australia N1 - Open Access N2 - 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 UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33151/1/560352.pdf UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33151/1/560352.pdf UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33151/1/560352.pdf UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/33738 ER -