Clara Morison
1854
First Published
3.71
Average Rating
294
Number of Pages
Set in Adelaide in the early 1850s Clara Morison tells the story of a young educated woman who migrates to South Australia from Scotland kwowing very little of her new home. Clara finds work, battles illness, discovers relatives and slowly finds her place in the struggling colony. Her story, which reveals the fine details of colonial domestic life, is set against the turbulence of the gold fever when men and money streamed out of South Australia to the goldfields in the eastern colonies. The problems of a new and vulnerable colonist and the atmosphere of public and private financial upheaval are successfully recreated by Spence, making Clara Morison by far the finest novel of colonial South Australia.
Avg Rating
3.71
Number of Ratings
38
5 STARS
21%
4 STARS
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3 STARS
18%
2 STARS
8%
1 STARS
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Author
Catherine Helen Spence
Author · 3 books
Scottish-born Australian novelist, a critic, an accomplished journalist, a preacher, a lecturer, a philanthropist, and a social and moral reformer. Australia’s first female political candidate after standing for the Federal Convention held in Adelaide, and a keen campaigner for electoral reform, (Thomas Hare's voting scheme for the representation of minorities). She admitted in her autobiography that she was late to 'lend a hand' to the Australian suffragist movement, believing that electoral reform for male voters was a higher priority than votes for women.
