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A Week in the Future, in order to make his article a contribution to discussion of the legend of
the 1890s, seem to me strained.
67 Woods, ‘Rambling Recollections’, vol. 3, p.12; C.H. Spence, sermon on text ‘Righteousness
exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people’, n.d., MS., SAA; Spence, sermon on
Egoism and Altruism.
68 ‘Miss C.H. Spence at the Unitarian Church’, Quiz and the Lantern, 9 May 1895. I am grateful
to David Hilliard for sending me a copy of this article, too.
69 Woods., op. cit., vol. 3, p.12.
70 Morice, op. cit., p.5.
4 Edging out of the domestic sphere
1 See R.V. Holt, The Unitarian Contribution to Social Progress in England, London, 1938.
2 Rosamond & Florence Davenport Hill, The Recorder of Birmingham: A Memoir of Matthew
Davenport-Hill; with selections from his correspondence, London, 1976, pp.103-4; Susan Magarey,
‘The Reclaimers: A Study of the Reformatory Movement in England and Wales 1846-1893’,
PhD thesis, Australian National University, 1975.
3 Florence Hill, The Boarding-out System distinguished from Baby-farming and Parish Apprenticeship,
a paper read before the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science 1869, London,
1869; E.E. Metcalfe, Memoir of Rosamond Davenport-Hill, London, 1904, pp.63-65; Florence
Davenport Hill, Children of the State; the Training of Juvenile Paupers, London, 1868.
4 Frances Power Cobbe, Essays on the Pursuits of Women, London, 1863; Manton, Mary Carpenter,
pp.148-152; Spence, Autobiography, p.37.
5 Hester Burton, Barbara Bodichon 1827-1892, London, 1949 (I am grateful to Mandy Leveratt
for lending this book to me); Spence, Autobiography, p.37.
6 See F.K. Prochaska, Women and Philanthropy in 19 th Century England, Oxford, 1980,
Conclusion.
7 Spence, Autobiography, p.37; C.H. Spence, Paper describing a visit to England in 1865-6, MS.,
SAA.
8 Elizabeth Windschuttle, ‘Feeding the Poor and Sapping their Strength: the Public Role of
Ruling-Class Women in Eastern Australia, 1788-1850’, in Elizabeth Windschuttle (ed.),
Women, Class and History: Feminist Perspectives on Australia 1788-1978, Melbourne, 1980.
9 Margaret Barbalet, Far from a low gutter girl: the forgotten world of state wards: South Australia
1887-1940, Melbourne, 1983, p.191.
10 Kay Daniels, ‘Catherine Spence’, in History Teachers’ Association of New South Wales, Women
and History, New South Wales Education Department, 1975, pp.62-3.
11 See Ian Gough, The Political Economy of the Welfare State, London, 1979, particularly pp.11-15.
12 For example, Elizabeth Wilson, Women & the Welfare State, London, 1977, pp.120-122; Martin
Durham, ‘The Mothers Defence League, 1920-1921: A Case Study in Class, Patriarchy and the
State’, paper presented to History Workshop Conference 16, Sheffield, 5-7 November 1982; Cora
Baldock & Bettina Cass (eds), Women, Social Welfare and the State, Sydney, 1983, Introduction.
13 See Barbalet, Far from a low gutter girl, p.205.
14 Pike, Paradise of Dissent, pp.231-2; Governor Grey to Lord Russell, 7 June 1841, Despatch No.
6 and enclosure 3, Papers Relative to the Affairs of South Australia, London, 1843; Pike, Paradise
of Dissent, pp.359-60, 363.
15 G.N. Hawker, ‘Movements for Civil Service Reform in South Australia’, BA Hons thesis,
University of Adelaide, 1963, pp.4, 42, 71.
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