Lucy Morice was a kindergarten worker and social reformer. She was educated at private schools and was much influenced by her family's Unitarianism and political interests. Her aunt Catherine Helen Spence became her greatest friend. She and Spence founded the Woman's League in 1895, after female enfranchisement, 'to educate women politically and to work for the interests of women and children'. In 1902 the all-female South Australian Co-operative Clothing Co. opened Adelaide's first electrically powered clothing factory, designed to protect women workers from 'sweating'. Lucy Morice was a foundation shareholder and Catherine Spence chaired it until she died in 1910. Although they had agreed that Morice would complete her aunt's unfinished autobiography, another niece, Eleanor Wren, forestalled these plans.
