Catherine Helen Spence : an autobiography

Reprinted from The Register. Adelaide : W. K. Thomas & Co., 1910. Octavo, lettered purple wrappers (lightly sunned at spine, small stain), pp. 101, small stain to fore edge, a very good copy.

A rare work by Catherine Helen Spence (1825-1910) – writer and suffragist, Australia’s first female political candidate, and the first Australian woman to have published a novel about Australia (Clara Morison: A Tale of South Australia During the Gold Fever, 1854).