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Catherine Helen Spence

Gordon, Maudec. 1901

State Library of South Australia

State Library of South Australia
Adelaide, Australia

Miniature portrait in oils of Catherine Helen Spence. Seated at a desk, she is wearing a formal dress with cap, a watch chain and a horseshoe brooch at her throat. She was a journalist, novelist, social and political reformer and a champion for women's rights including the vote. At her death in 1910 she was mourned as 'the grand old woman of Australia'.
Painted from a photograph.

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