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Issue Details: First known date: 1985... 1985 Unbridling the Tongues of Women : A Biography of Catherine Helen Spence
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'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.' (From the publisher's website, 2010 edition.)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Hale and Iremonger , 1985 .
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      Extent: 240p.
      Description: illus., ports
      Note/s:
      • Includes index.
      • Includes bibliography : p.219-234.
      ISBN: 0868061506, 0868061492
    • Adelaide, South Australia,: University of Adelaide Press , 2010 .
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      Extent: xxviii, 214p.p.
      Edition info: New ed.
      Note/s:
      • '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.'
      • Publication date: March 2010.
      • Includes index.
      • Includes bibliography: p. 192-206.
      ISBN: 9780980672305 (ebk.), 9780980672305 (pbk.)

Works about this Work

A Tongue Unbridled Rosemary O'Grady , single work review
— Review of Unbridling the Tongues of Women : A Biography of Catherine Helen Spence Susan Magarey , 1985 single work biography
The Woman on the $5 Note Helen Thomson , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 324 2010; (p. 23-24)

— Review of Unbridling the Tongues of Women : A Biography of Catherine Helen Spence Susan Magarey , 1985 single work biography
Grand Old Utopian Helen Thomson , 1986 single work review
— Appears in: Island Magazine , Winter no. 27 1986; (p. 66-67)

— Review of Unbridling the Tongues of Women : A Biography of Catherine Helen Spence Susan Magarey , 1985 single work biography
Untitled L. Meldrum , 1986 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 5 April 1986; (p. B2)

— Review of Unbridling the Tongues of Women : A Biography of Catherine Helen Spence Susan Magarey , 1985 single work biography
The Vision Splendid of a Courageous Pioneer Kathy Bail , 1986 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 8-9 February 1986; (p. 13)

— Review of Unbridling the Tongues of Women : A Biography of Catherine Helen Spence Susan Magarey , 1985 single work biography
The Woman on the $5 Note Helen Thomson , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 324 2010; (p. 23-24)

— Review of Unbridling the Tongues of Women : A Biography of Catherine Helen Spence Susan Magarey , 1985 single work biography
A Tongue Unbridled Rosemary O'Grady , single work review
— Review of Unbridling the Tongues of Women : A Biography of Catherine Helen Spence Susan Magarey , 1985 single work biography
Untitled Carol Bolton , 1986 single work review
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , May vol. 1 no. 5 1986; (p. 14)

— Review of Unbridling the Tongues of Women : A Biography of Catherine Helen Spence Susan Magarey , 1985 single work biography
Untitled Laurie Clancy , 1986 single work review
— Appears in: Meridian , October vol. 5 no. 2 1986; (p. 185-186)

— Review of Unbridling the Tongues of Women : A Biography of Catherine Helen Spence Susan Magarey , 1985 single work biography
Untitled Beverley Kingston , 1986 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 12 no. 4 1986; (p. 550-552)

— Review of Unbridling the Tongues of Women : A Biography of Catherine Helen Spence Susan Magarey , 1985 single work biography
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Subjects:
  • South Australia,
  • c
    Scotland,
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    United Kingdom (UK),
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    Western Europe, Europe,
  • 1801-1900
  • 1701-1800
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