Spence, Catherine Helen, 1825-1910

LC control no.	n 50021257
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Spence, Catherine Helen, 1825-1910 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Located	Adelaide (S.A.)
Birth date	1825-10-31
Death date	1910-04-03
Place of birth	Melrose (Scottish Borders, Scotland)
Place of death	Norwood (S.A.)
Field of activity	Journalism Creative writing Teaching Politics
Profession or occupation	Suffragists Social reformers Politicians Journalists Novelists Teachers
Found in	Young, J. F. Catherine Helen Spence ... c1937. A week in the future, 2010: title page (Catherine Helen Spence) page ii, Introduction (Catherine Helen Spence, 1825-1910, was an author, philantropist, social reformer, and the first woman to stand for Parliament in Australia) Wikipedia, viewed Oct. 25, 2017 (Catherine Helen Spence (born October 31, 1825 in Melrose, Scotland ; died April 3, 1910 in Norwood, South Australia) was a Scottish-born Australian author, teacher, journalist, politician, leading suffragist, and writer. In 1897 she became Australia's first female political candidate for the Federal Convention held in Adelaide [where she lived all her adult life]. For several years, Spence was the South Australian correspondent for The Argus newspaper writing under her brother's name until the coming of the telegraph. She was an author of novels: Clara Morison: A Tale of South Australia During the Gold Fever; Tender and True; Mr Hogarth's Will, and some others. In 1888 she published A Week In the Future, a tour-tract of the utopia she imagined a century in the future might bring; it was one of the precursors of Edward Bellamy's 1889 Looking Backward)
Associated language	eng