Catherine Helen Spence: 5 books

Catherine Helen Spence (31 October 1825 – 3 April 1910) was a Scottish-born Australian author, teacher, journalist, politician, leading suffragist, and Georgist.[1] In 1897 she became Australia's first female political candidate after standing (unsuccessfully) for the Federal Convention held in...

Mr. Hogarth's Will Catherine Helen Spence, scottish-born Australian author, teacher, journalist, politician and leading suffragist (1825-1910) This ebook presents «Mr. Hogarth's Will», from Catherine Helen Spence. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter...

Sitting down at the age of eighty-four to give an account of my life, I feel that it connects itself naturally with the growth and development of the province of South Australia, to which I came with my family in the year 1839, before it was quite three years old. But there is much truth in Wordsworth's...

     Two mail coaches—the Blucher and the Chevy Chase—ran through Melrose every day. People went to the post office for their letters, and paid for them on delivery. My two elder sisters—Agnes, who died of consumption at the age of 16, and Jessie, afterwards Mrs. Andrew Murray, of Adelaide...