Catherine Helen Spence: Selected digitised items

Given on 13 April in the Banqueting Room, Town Hall, Adelaide, by Miss C. H. Spence. Vardon & Pritchard, Printers, Adelaide, 1905.

A symposium. The woman speaker. Reminiscences and comparisons. Article by Miss C. H. Spence, ‘A Colonist of 1839’ from The Register, 11 December 1909, page 15, columns a and b.

The woman speaker. Further reminiscences and comparisons. Article by Miss C. H. Spence, ‘A Colonist of 1839’ from The Register, 25 December 1909 page 8, columns g and h.

Poem by Catherine Helen Spence from The Register of 1 November 1905 page 1. Also issued as a single page leaflet.

This diary was given by Catherine Helen Spence's niece Eleanor Wren to Mrs Jeanne Forster Young, an admiring friend of Miss Spence and herself a supporter of voting reform in Australia, for the purpose of completing Spence's autobiography after her death in 1910. From Mrs Young, it passed to her daughter, Alfreda Dorothy Brock (nee Young) and finally to her grandson Robert J. Brock who looked after it and maintained it with the assistance of his wife Julie Vonda Brock (nee Julie Vonda Lodge-Davis) until it was purchased by the State Library of South Australia in 2006.

Unsigned leader from The Observer, 7 December 1878, page 4, columns b and c.

Second notice. Unsigned article from The Register, 1 February 1883, page 6, columns a and b.

Unsigned review of ‘Elfie under the sea and other stories’ from The Observer, 16 December 1882, page 42, column e.

Miss Spence’s candidature’. Electoral notice by Catherine Helen Spence from The Register, 13 February 1897, page 2, column c.

A few plain words to the women electors of South Australia by one of themselves. Article by Catherine Helen Spence from The Register, 24 March 1896, page 6, columns b and c.

No 1. Article by One who loves them from The Observer, 4 December 1880, page 33, columns a and b.

First notice. Unsigned article from The Register, 24 August 1878, page 5, column g-page 6, column a.

Article by Catherine Helen Spence from The Register, 30 October 1905, page 6, column c.

Article by Catherine Helen Spence from The Register, 31 October 1905, page 7, column b.

Article by Catherine Helen Spence from The Register, 4 November 1905, page 8, column g and h.

Adelaide, Government Printing Office, 1880.

Unsigned article from The Observer, 25 September 1880, page 41, columns a-c.

At the World's Fair. Chicago, June 16 from The Observer, 5 August 1893, page 33 columns d and e-page 34, columns a and b.

From The Adelaide Primer Part 2 page 51. Adelaide, Education Department of South Australia, 1916. Unsigned single page story for beginning readers.

Unsigned leader from The Register, 24 June 1878, page 4, columns d and e.

Unsigned review of ‘The silent sea’ by Catherine Martin (Richard Bentley & Son, London, 1892) from The Observer, 24 December 1892, p. 41, columns c and d. This review has much in common with the signed review in Voice on 9 December 1892, p. 2. It makes points consistent with Spence's attitudes and style.

By Miss C. H. Spence in Notes and Queries, The Register, 8 January 1903, page 6, column f (scroll down).

Article by C. H. S. from The Observer, 2 January 1904 page 34, columns a and b.

Article by C. H. S. from The Observer, 25 December 1880, page 40, columns c and d.

Children’s story ‘told to the little ones’ by C H Spence from the Evening Journal, 24 December 1881, page 7, columns b-e. This is of interest because it is Spence’s own version of the fairy story, with quite a different emphasis to the original version.

Poem by D.G. from The South Australian, 24 October 1845, page 3, columns d and e.

Puzzle by C. H. S. from The Observer, 25 December 1880, page 40, column b, scroll down.

Article by ‘A Colonist of 1839’ from The Observer, 8 October 1881, page 41, columns a-c.

Pamphlet by C. H. Spence, Eildon, St Peters, March 1896.

Letter by C. H. Spence from The Register, 5 June 1891, page 7, column d.

Unsigned leader from The Register, 10 November 1879, page 4, columns c-e.

By one of them. Unsigned article from The Observer, 28 June 1884, page 41, columns a and b.