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Thanks to the struggle of the state's women, South Australia was one of the first places in the world to grant the vote to women. This guide covers a wide range of women's history in SA, from suffrage to prostitution and the women who changed the state.
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Please enquire at the Information Desk for the following indexes:

  • Chronicle: index to the 'Eleanor Barbour' Women's pages, 1937-1966. This index is unable to be viewed at present. Research Services staff can help with providing alternative information.
  • Chronicle: index to the 'Mary Broughton' Women's pages, c1966-1975. This index is is unable to be viewed at present. Research Services staff can help with providing alternative information.

Observer Index: 1880-1908.

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  • Catherine Helen Spence
    Catherine Helen Spence (1825-1910) arrived as a colonist in South Australia in 1839. She became a social and political reformer, a worker for women's suffrage and a writer. This website features a key-word searchable chronological bibliography (compiled by Adelaide historian Dr Barbara Wall) of over 2,130 articles, newspaper editorials, poems, puzzles and much more written by Spence. Some 30 of these items have been digitised.
  • Chronology of women's suffrage
    South Australia was one of the first places in the world to give women the vote in 1894, and was the first in the world to enable women to enter Parliament, and this site traces the development of progress toward adult suffrage.
  • Mary Lee
    Mary Lee lived between 1821 and 1909, arriving in South Australia in 1879. She was the prime mover in the community for the introduction of women's suffrage. This site details her life and achievements, and has some digitised images of photographs, cartoons and documents.
  • Women and politics in South Australia
    This website was supported by the Women's Suffrage Centenary Committee and includes details of the year of celebrations in 1994. It celebrates the role of women in the social and political development of South Australia. The website is based on the Library's rich heritage resources and includes digitised images of some of its unique documents. The website's themes are Women's suffrage, Federation, Effective voting, Catherine Helen Spence, Political awareness, The workplace and more.
  • South Australian creative women writers database
    This website is a database of South Australian creative women writers, giving biographical details, and listings of their writings and other multimedia productions.

    Initially conceived as a record of all South Australian writing, the South Australian Women Creative Writers Database had its origin in a project begun in 1995 at Flinders University, involving collaboration and co-operation with the State Library of South Australia.

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Periodical articles

Periodical articles

Australian Women's Weekly June 1933-.

Homemaker May 1962 - Royal Show ed. 1978 imperfect.

The Housewife Vol.1, no.1, April 1929 - vol.30, January 1953; no.5, July/August 1961.

Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia.No. 2, 1976, pp.1-17. Jones, Helen. 'Women at work in South Australia, 1889-1906.'

Tradition: a journal of the History Teacher's Association of South Australia. June 1978. pp.14-18. Nance, Christopher. 'Women in colonial South Australia.'

NOTE: 'Women's pages' may be found in a number of newspapers.

 

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