Tasma, Uncle Piper of Piper’s Hill
[wives are] to be petted and made much of when things are going well, and to be severely knocked about when anything goes wrong.
AWW Generation 1, 1788-1890
Following my last post The New Woman in Australia, I provide here an annotated list of our earliest women writers
Tne New Woman in Australia
It is not possible to write about early Australian women writers without mentioning, and relying on, the work of Dale Spender, in particular, Writing a New World
Australian Suffragists
Suffragism was state (colony) based up until Federation on 1 Jan 1901, and voting rights for the first federal election were based on voting rights in the individual states
Catherine Helen Spence
a member of a church which allows women to speak in the pulpit, a citizen of a State which gives womanhood a vote for the Assembly, a citizen of a Commonwealth which fully enfranchises me for both Senate and Representatives
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