Catherine+Helen+Spence+and+South+Australian+women’s+suffrage

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 * **__Catherine Helen Spence and South Australian women__**
 * She wrote the first intelligent Australian novel and lived in Adelaide. She was a great supporter of the rights of women.
 * New Zealand was the first country to give voting rights to women in 1893. But South Australia followed a few short months later in 1894, and South Australia was the first in Australia to do so. South Australia also led the way for national women's voting rights and in 1902 Federal parliament also gave the vote to women. (Great Britain gave women voting rights only in 1928.)
 * Adelaide Univesity could confer degrees on women from 1881, only 3 years after the University of London. (There were no women at Cambridge until 1948.) Women were permitted to study in the Adelaide University Medical school from 1887 but had separate anatomy studies.

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