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Catherine Helen Spence [B 11192] • Artwork

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Summary

Miniature portrait in oils of Catherine Helen Spence, women's rights agitator and writer, 1825-1910. Painted from B 9881. Catherine is also remembered as a Scottish-born Australian author, teacher, journalist, politician and Georgist (equal rights for all and special privileges for none). Her life work was devoted to the raising of awareness and improving the lot of women and children. Although she never married she successively raised three families of orphaned children. She aimed to have destitute children removed from the asylum and into approved families. She represented minorities which she considered almost more important than that of woman suffrage

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Physical description

Artwork (miniature portrait); 7.2 cm x 6.4 cm

Dates / Publication details

Approximately 1900

Artist

Gordon, Maude

Collection

Part of Portrait Collection

Subject

Spence, Catherine Helen, 1825-1910

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Historical information

Maude (Margaret) Gordon was born ca.1872, daughter of Thomas William Reilly. She married John Alexander Gordon in 1900 and died in 1947 at North Adelaide aged 75.

Digitisation information

Date

31/10/2006

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

13,669 x 16,635 pixels (227.4 MP)

Size

682.19 MB

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