OBITUARY.
A WELL-KXOWX WOMAN WRITER. Bj Telegraph.— Freti Association —Copyright. (Received April 4, 10 a.m.) ADELAIDE, This Day. Tho death is announced of Miss Catherine H. Spence, a well-known writer on social and political subjects ) aged 84 years. Catherine Helen Spence, authoress, litterateur, president of the Effective Voting League of South Australia, and vice-president of tho National Council of Women, was born in Melrose, Scotland, and arrived in South Australia with her parents in 1839. Since 1869 th« main object of her life has been electoral reform — the Hare system of proportional representation or etttttive voting — in which cause slie lectured throughout South Australia and other ; SUtes t and delivered about 100 lectures 111 the United States and Canada. She also interested herself in the children of the Stale. For the South Australian preH she has written oxteiiiively, and also contributed to Kngluh and other reviews. Her novel* include .* "Clara Moriton," "Xtadtr and Tru»," and "Gathered In."
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 78, 4 April 1910, Page 7
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157OBITUARY. Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 78, 4 April 1910, Page 7
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