Catherine Helen Spence
Articles
- ‘Colonial Literature for Colonial Readers!’
Any research worker who requests the back files of one of the nineteenth century magazines or journals, other than perhaps the Bulletin, will soon…
1 October 1971 - Review of Clara Morison by Catherine Helen Spence, edited by Susan Eade; and Catherine Spence by Janet Cooper
The recent publication of the above books, together with the section devoted to Catherine Spence in John Barnes's Henry Kingsley and Colonial Fiction (Melbourne 1971…
1 October 1973 - Catherine Helen Spence, Unitarian Utopian
Walker examines the religious foundation of Spence’s political and social ideas in the context of the colonial and British background. Spence’s conversion to the Unitarian…
1 May 1971 - Review of Catherine Helen Spence ed. Helen Thomson; and Point of Departure. The Autobiography of Jean Devanny ed. Carole Ferrier
In the section on literature in the recently issued Report of the Committee to Review Australian Studies in Tertiary Education, Windows onto Worlds, it…
1 October 1987 - Review of Unbridling the Tongues of Women. A Biography of Catherine Helen Spence, by Susan Magarey
Susan Magarey has opted for Spence as woman first, then social reformer. Her writing is accepted as 'the line of least resistance*, Spence's comment as…
1 October 1986 - Review of books by Hal Porter, Catherine Helen Spence, Douglas Stewart and Ric Throssell
Webby reviews the following books:
The Extra by Hal Porter (Thomas Nelson Australia Limited. Melbourne, 1975).
An Autobiography by Catherine Helen Spence (W.K. Thomas &…
1 October 1976 - Economies of Childhood in Nineteenth-Century Australia: Catherine Helen Spence’s Short Fiction for Children
In her long-running annual column for the Adelaide Observer, ‘Gossip about Children’s Books’, Australian writer and social reformer, Catherine Helen Spence, maintained that ‘the…
9 July 2018