Unbridling the tongues of women : : a biography of Catherine Helen Spence / / Susan Magarey.

• VerfasserIn: Magarey, Susan,
• TeilnehmendeR: University of Adelaide.
• Place / Publishing House: Adelaide : : The University of Adelaide Press,, 1985.
• Year of Publication: 1985
• Edition: New edition.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxviii, 214 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

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.

Table of Contents

Acquiring a room of her own --The line of least resistance --Faith and enlightenment --Edging out of the domestic sphere --Learning for the future --Round woman in her round hole --Prophet of the effective vote --The New Woman of South Australia : Grand Old Woman of Australia.