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3 unusual facts about Catherine Helen Spence


Catherine Helen Spence

She was an early advocate of the work of Australian artist Margaret Preston and purchased her 1905 still-life "Onions".

The posthumous portrait of her, by Rose McPherson (later to become famous as Margaret Preston) is held by the Art Gallery of South Australia.

In 1888 she published A Week In the Future, a tour-tract of the utopia she imagined a century in the future might bring; it was one of the precursors of Edward Bellamy's 1889 Looking Backward.


Samuel Davenport

She was to become a noted philanthropist, closely associated with Emily Clark, Lady Colton and Catherine Helen Spence.


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