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Unbridling the tongues of women : a biography of Catherine Helen Spence /
"Originally published in 1985, this revised edition with an updated Introduction, is being published by the University of Adelaide Press to commemorate the anniversary of Catherine Helen Spence's death on 3 April 1910. Catherine Helen Spence was a charismatic public speaker in the late nin...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Adelaide :
University of Adelaide Press,
2010.
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| Edición: | [New ed.]. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Originally published in 1985, this revised edition with an updated Introduction, is being published by the University of Adelaide Press to commemorate the anniversary of Catherine Helen Spence's death on 3 April 1910. 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. She was also much more -- a novelist deserving comparison with George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman; a pioneering woman journalist; a 'public intellectual' a century before the term was coined; a philanthropic innovator in social welfare and education, with an influence reaching far beyond South Australia; Australia's first female political candidate. A 'New Woman', she declared herself. The 'Grand Old Woman of Australia' others called her"--Publisher's description. |
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| Notas: | Originally published: Sydney : Hale & Iremonger, ©1985. With an updated introduction. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxviii, 214 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-206) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780980672305 0980672309 |