'Pioneer feminist Henrietta Augusta
Dugdale holds an important place in
Australian history. Her witty, forceful
campaigning helped bring women's rights
to prominence in the second half of the
nineteenth century. This biography of a
thrice-married woman, who was born in
St Pancras, London, during the reign of
George IV and died 91 years later at Point
Lonsdale, Victoria, seeks to understand why
and how she came to Australia, became a
vegetarian, a secularist, initiated the first
female suffrage society in Australasia and,
in her late middle age, published a futuristic
allegory titled A Few Hours In a Far Off Age.
