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Catherine Helen Spence (1825-1910) was an Australian author, teacher, journalist, politician and leading suffragette. In 1897 she became Australia's first female political candidate after standing (unsuccessfully) for the Federal Convention held in Adelaide. Known as the "Greatest Australian Woman" and given the epitaph "Grand Old Woman of Australasia", Spence is commemorated on the Australian 5 dollar note issued for the Centenary of Federation. Spence had a talent for writing and an urge to be read, so it was natural that in her teens she became attracted to journalism through family connections, beginning at first with short pieces and poetry published in The South Australian. She also worked as a governess for some of the leading families in Adelaide at the rate of sixpence an hour. Her first major work was the novel Clara A Tale of South Australia During the Gold Fever (1854). Her second novel Tender and True was published in 1856 and to her delight went through a second and third printing, though she never received a penny more than the initial twenty pounds.
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A Week In The Future: Catherine Helene Spence''s 1888 Forecast Of Life In 1988
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Hale & Iremonger Sydney 1988, 1987
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Seller: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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A4 136pp b/w illusts very good+ hardback & dustwrapper The Centennial Magazine: An Australian Monthly serialised the original text from Dec1888 to July 1889. In it Emily Bethel is supernaturally transported from 19th century Adelaide to 20th century London. Numerous drawings and cartoons illustrate the text. Seller Inventory # 20982522
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A Week In The Future: Catherine Helene Spence''s 1888 Forecast Of Life In 1988
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A WEEK IN THE FUTURE. With Introduction & Notes by Lesley Durrell Ljungdahl
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Hale & Iremonger, [Sydney], 1987
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Large octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-136, profusely illustrated with drawings and vignettes from various magazines of the 1880s, boards. First edition. A short utopian romance set in 1988, first published as an eight-part serial in THE CENTENNIAL MAGAZINE, AN AUSTRALIAN MONTHLY, December 1888 - July 1889. "Eutopia set in London in 1988. Everyone lives in 'Associated homes' and works a six hour day mostly in cooperatives. Population control. Strict control on in-migration. Eugenics. Women work equally with men in all occupations. Ireland now part of the United Commonwealth of Great Britain and Ireland, but all four component units have some independent political institutions. Based in part on the writings of Jane Hume Clapperton, particularly her SCIENTIFIC MELIORISM AND THE EVOLUTION OF HAPPINESS (London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1885)." - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985 (additions). The Scottish-born Spence (1825-1910) moved with her family to Australia in 1839 when she was 14 and became a writer and feminist there. Stone, Notes on Australian Science Fiction, pp. 78-9. Spine ends a bit soft, still a fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with some mild wrinkling along the top edge. (#139860). Seller Inventory # 139860