People Australia

Life Summary [details]

Birth

31 October, 1825
Melrose, Scottish Borders, Scotland

Death

3 April, 1910 (aged 84)
Norwood, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Cultural Heritage

Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.

• Scottish

Religious Influence

Includes the religion in which subjects were raised, have chosen themselves, attendance at religious schools and/or religious funeral rites; Atheism and Agnosticism have been included.

• Presbyterian
• Unitarian

Passenger Ship

• Palmyra (1839)

Occupation or Descriptor

• autobiographer/memoirist
• charity worker
• governess
• journalist
• literary critic
• novelist
• public lecturer
• Unitarian lay leader
• women's activist
• women's suffragist

Key Events

• World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago, US), 1893

Legacies

• Catherine Helen Spence building (University of South Australia)
• Catherine Helen Spence Memorial Scholarship (SA govt)
• Catherine Helen Spence Street (Adelaide)
• Spence Wing (State Library of South Australia)

Key Organisations

• Adelaide Young Women's Literary Society
• Destitute Board (SA)
• Boarding-Out Society (Adelaide)
• State Children's Council (SA)
• Women's Suffrage League of South Australia
• Effective Voting League of South Australia
• Woman's League (SA)
• South Australian Co-operative Clothing Co