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The remarkable Catherine Helen Spence -- teacher, social reformer, novelist, and Australia’s first female journalist and political candidate -- tells the story of her life in this engaging book. Spence campaigned for universal suffrage, women’s access to university education, the welfare of orphans. She was known as “Australia’s Greatest Woman” during her lifetime.
Table of Contents
- CHAPTER I. EARLY LIFE IN SCOTLAND.
- CHAPTER II. TOWARDS AUSTRALIA.
- CHAPTER III. A BEGINNING AT SEVENTEEN
- CHAPTER IV. LOVERS AND FRIENDS.
- CHAPTER V. NOVELS AND A POLITICAL INSPIRATION.
- CHAPTER VI. A TRIP TO ENGLAND.
- CHAPTER VII. MELROSE REVISITED.
- CHAPTER VIII. I VISIT EDINBURGH AND LONDON.
- CHAPTER IX. MEETING WITH J. S. MILL AND GEORGE ELIOT.
- CHAPTER X. RETURN FROM THE OLD COUNTRY.
- CHAPTER XI WARDS OF THE STATE.
- CHAPTER XII. PREACHING, FRIENDS, AND WRITING.
- CHAPTER XIII. MY WORK FOR EDUCATION.
- CHAPTER XIV. SPECULATION, CHARITY, AND A BOOK.
- CHAPTER XV. JOURNALISM AND POLITICS.
- CHAPTER XVI. SORROW AND CHANGE.
- CHAPTER XVII. IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA.
- CHAPTER XVIII. BRITAIN, THE CONTINENT, AND HOME AGAIN.
- CHAPTER XIX. PROGRESS OF EFFECTIVE VOTING.
- CHAPTER XX. WIDENING INTERESTS.
- CHAPTER XXI PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION AND FEDERATION.
- CHAPTER XXII. A VISIT TO NEW SOUTH WALES.
- CHAPTER XXIII. MORE PUBLIC WORK.
- CHAPTER XXIV. THE EIGHTIETH MILESTONE AND THE END.
