Ever Yours, C.H. Spence

Catherine Helen Spence’s An Autobiography (1825–1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894–1910)

Catherine Helen Spence

Edited and annotated by Susan Magarey with Barbara Wall, Mary Lyons and Maryan Beams

HB 400 PP 230 x 168 1862546568 $39.95 Memoir / Letters EAN 9781862546561 Wakefield Press

Ever Yours, C.H. Spence offers a narrative of the life of Catherine Helen Spence, in the spirit of the recent bestseller Blue Ribbons and Bitter Bread by Susanna de Vries. Novelist, journalist, preacher, public campaigner for social and electoral reform and life-long promoter of the rights of women, Spence's face graced our old $5 note. Her correspondence, and her diary – something that has never been printed before – supplement the autobiography, offering an intimate insight into the fears and pleasures – and the scintillating humour – of this remarkable public intellectual, this busy jobbing journalist, as she travels the United States, Britain, and Europe, arriving back in Australia just in time for the passage of the Women’s Suffrage Act in South Australia, the first Australian colony to enfranchise women.

With introductions and scholarly notes by Barbara Wall and Susan Magarey.

Susan Magarey is the author of a prize-winning biography of Catherine Helen Spence: Unbridling the Tongues of Women (Hale & Iremonger, 1985).

Also by Susan Magarey:

Roma the First (with Kerrie Round)