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15 See Catherine Hall, ‘The butcher, the baker, the candlestickmaker: the shop and the family in the
Industrial Revolution’ and ‘The home turned upside down? The working-class in cotton textiles
1780-1850’, both in E. Whitelegg et al (eds), The Changing Experience of Women, Oxford, 1982;
C. Pateman, ‘Women, Nature, and the Suffrage’, Ethics, vol.90, no.4 (July 1980).
16 See B. Cass, ‘Women’s Place in the Class Structure’, in E.L. Wheelwright & K. Buckley (eds)
Essays in the Political Economy of Australian Capitalism, 3 vols., Sydney, 1976-8, vol.iii.
17 J. Cooper, Catherine Spence, Melbourne, 1972, is a useful introduction and feminist view of
Spence, but the size of Oxford University Press’s series on notable Australians prevents a full
reinterpretation of her life and historical period.
18 Melbourne, 1937.
19 J.F. Young, Catherine Helen Spence a study and an appreciation, Melbourne, 1937, Preface.
20 Ibid., pp.13, 48.
21 Ibid., p.13; L.S. Morice, ‘Auntie Kate’, typescript in SAA, p.2.
22 Quoted in Young, op. cit., p.48. Jeanne Young’s daughter-in-law, Mrs. Courtney Young, told me
in 1970 that Jeanne Young mislaid the diary in about 1935. My searches have not discovered it.
23 Young, op. cit., pp.27-28; this niece was Eleanor Wren.
24 Spence, op. cit., p.18.
25 Young, op. cit., p.28.
26 Morice, op. cit., p.7; H. Cook, ‘Catherine Helen Spence’, typescript in SAA, p.3; recollection of
Mrs. Marjorie Caw.
27 Morice, op. cit., p.1.
28 Spence, op. cit., p.42.
29 Ibid., p.45.
30 Young, op. cit., pp.16, 13.
31 See [C.H. Spence], ‘Hand Fasted – A Romance by Hugh Victor Keith’ (pseud.) MS., SAA,
typescript ANL, first pub. Ringwood, 1984, H. Thomson (ed.).
32 Morice op. cit., pp. 2, 3.
33 Ibid., pp.4, 7.
34 Spence, Autobiography, p.68.
35 L.S. Morice, ‘The Life and work of Catherine Helen Spence’, in L. Brown et al, (eds), A Book of
South Australian Women in the first Hundred years, Adelaide, 1936, p.138.
36 Cook, ‘Catherine Helen Spence’, p.1.
37 Morice, ‘Auntie Kate’, p.3.
38 Cook, op. cit., p.3.
39 Spence, Autobiography, pp.68-9.
40 Cook, op. cit., p.3.
41 Conversation with Lucy Spence Morice’s son, Mr. Patrick Morice.
42 Morice, ‘Auntie Kate’, passim.
43 (Spence), Autobiography, p.79. Jeanne Young wrote the last seven chapters of Spence’s
autobiography after Spence’s death, see Spence, Autobiography, pp.3-4. Reference to that
portion of the work will be given as (Spence), Autobiography.
44 Young, Spence, p.80.
45 Ibid., p.11.
46 Ibid., pp.14-15, 16, 193-4, 16.
47 Recollection of Miss Phyllis Crompton.
48 Young, op. cit., pp.186-7.
49 Ibid., pp.15, 32.
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