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Biography of Catherine Helen Spence
Name: Catherine Helen Spence
Birth Date: October 31, 1825
Death Date: April 3, 1910
Place of Birth: Melrose, Scotland
Nationality: Australian
Gender: Female
Occupations: writer, social activist
Catherine Helen Spence
Among the more prolific writers of nineteenth century colonial Australia, Catherine Helen Spence (1825-1910) provided valuable insights to life in South Australia through her various novels, magazine articles, and lectures. A dauntless social activist, she dedicated much of her life and times to the education of girls and toward improving conditions for poor children. Near the turn of the twentieth century Spence became increasingly involved with the struggle for women's suffrage and contributed to the success of that movement in her adopted homeland.Catherine Helen Spence was born in Melrose, Scotland, on October 31, 1825. She was the daughter of David S., an attorney, and Helen (Brodie) Spence. The fifth of eight siblings, Catherine Spence was well educated as her parents were well to do. The family moved to Adelaide, South Australia, for a fresh start in November 1839, after their father lost a sizeable fortune as a result of untimely speculation in the …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…was not diminished by her loss in the election.In 1907 Spence published State Children in Australia: A History of Boarding Out and Its Developments, in support of her ideas that orphaned children should be migrated from public institutions into private foster homes. At the time of her death, on April 3, 1910, in Adelaide, Australia, she was involved in writing her autobiography. The book, published as Catherine Helen Spence: An Autobiography, was completed by Jeanne F. Young, a close friend of Spence. Further Reading Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present, Yale University Press, 1990.Buck, Clair (ed.), The Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature, Prentice Hall General reference, 1992.Samuels, Selina (ed.), Dictionary of Literary Biography: Australian Literature, 1788--1914, The Gale Group, 2001.Wilde, William H., Joy Hooton, and Barry Andres, The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature, Oxford University Press, 1985.
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