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73 Ibid., p.19.
74 Information from Mrs A.A. Abbie and Mrs M. Caw; W.J. Sowden, ‘Our Pioneer Press the
Register, The Observer, and the Evening Journal. A History’, typescript dated in ink 1926,
SAA, pp.82, 103-105; Pike, op. cit., p.395.
75 Spence, Autobiography, p.19.
76 Ibid.
77 Young, Spence, pp.47-8.
78 C.H. Spence, Clara Morison, (first pub. London, 1854), Adelaide, 1971, p.214.
79 Young, Spence, p.45.
80 E. Showalter, A Literature of Their Own, London, 1977, p.21; see also K. Alford, Production or
Reproduction? An economic history of women in Australia, 1788-1850, Melbourne, 1984, p.219.
81 H. Brown, op. cit., p.24; Pike, Paradise of Dissent, p.489.
82 Spence, Autobiography, p.22.
83 Young, Spence, p.48; Spence, Autobiography, p.23.
84 Pike, Paradise of Dissent, p.114; M. Hardy, ‘The History of Education and Religion in South
Australia 1837-1856’, University of Adelaide, 1915, p.3; Sowden, op. cit., p.4.
85 J.K. Ramsay, ‘Culture and Society in South Australia 1857-1866’, BA Hons thesis, University
of Adelaide, 1963, pp.49-54; Pike, op. cit., p.504.
86 Spence, Autobiography, p.20.
87 Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own, first pub. 1929, St. Albans, 1977, pp.6, 37-9.
88 Spence, Autobiography, p.23; P.M. Last, ‘A paper of the life and work of Sir Edward Charles
Stirling, FRS., read before the Australian Medical Students Society on Tuesday June 15, 1949’,
Australian Medical Students Society Review, November, 1949.
89 Spence, Autobiography, p.23.
90 Ibid.
91 Last, op. cit.
92 Spence, Autobiography, p.29.
93 Clippings in Charles Davies’ collection, ‘Biography, Obituary, Births, Marriages and Death’,
vol.ii, SAA.
94 J.B. Hirst, Adelaide and the Country, pp.40, 43, 45.
95 Spence, Autobiography, pp.55, 68.
2 The line of least resistance
1 Spence, Autobiography, p.56.
2 Frederick Sinnett, ‘The Fiction Fields of Australia’, first published Journal of Australia, 1 (July-
December 1865), republished and edited by Cecil Hadgraft, University of Queensland Press,
1966; included in J. Barnes (ed.), The Writer in Australia: A Collection of Literary Documents
1856 to 1964, Melbourne, 1969.
3 E. Showalter, A Literature of Their Own, pp.18, 75, 3.
4 Spence, Autobiography, p.26.
5 Ibid., pp.28, 45; C.H. Spence, Lecture on the Love Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth
Barrett Barrett [sic], n.d., ML.
6 C.H. Spence, lecture on the Writing of George Eliot, n.d., ML; C.H. Spence, ‘George Eliot’s
Life and Work’, Melbourne Review, X, 39, 1885, p.220.
7 (Spence), Autobiography, pp.83-4.
8 Spence, Autobiography, pp.15, 25, 38.
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