Susan Magarey AM, FASSA, PhD, has degrees in English Literature and History from Adelaide University and the Australian National University. She was Director of the Research Centre for Women's Studies at Adelaide University where she is now Professor Emerita in History. She is the author of two monographs - the prize-winning biography of Catherine Helen Spence, Unbridling the Tongues of Women (1986) and Passions of the First-Wave Feminists (2001) - and more than sixty articles and book chapters. She has edited eight collections of articles - including Women in a Restructuring Australia: Work and Welfare (1995) with Anne Edwards, and Debutante Nation: Feminism Contests the 1890s (1993) with Sue Rowley and Susan Sheridan, and was the Founding Editor of the tri-annual journal, Australian Feminist Studies.