Unbridling the tongues of women: a biography of Catherine Helen Spence

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...

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Main Author: Magarey, Susan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Adelaide The University of Adelaide Press 1985
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Online Access:BSB01
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Summary: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
Item Description:monograph. - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015)
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxviii, 214 pages)
ISBN:9780980672305

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