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Henrietta Dugdale
Australian suffragist
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Henrietta Dugdale c. Henrietta dugdale biography wikipedia Henrietta Dugdale was a leading early advocate of women's rights in the Colony of Victoria. Her activism and writing and their influence on the women's suffrage campaign has attracted a recent biographer, Susan Priestley. Dugdale was born in London in and migrated to Victoria with her first husband in He died in and she remarried William Dugdale with whom she had three children. Victoria was notable for nurturing in the first women's suffrage organisation in the Australian colonies, although it was also notable for being in the last state to pass the state franchise. | |
| Born | Henrietta Augusta Worrell ()14 May London, United Kingdom |
| Died | 17 June () (aged&#;91) Point Lonsdale, Victoria, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Occupation | Suffragist |
| Spouse(s) | J.
A. Davies (m–) |
Henrietta Augusta Dugdale (néeWorrell; 14 May – 17 June ) was a pioneer Australian who initiated the first women's suffrage society in Australia. Non-conformist, provocative and quick-witted, her campaigning resulted in breakthroughs for women's rights in Australia.
Early life and education
Henrietta Augusta Worrell was born at St PancrasLondon on 14 May ,[1] the second surviving daughter of John Worrell and Henrietta Ann (née Austin).[2] Her claim of a first marriage at 14[3] does not fit with her official marriage in to a merchant navy officer J.
A. Davies, with whom she came to Australia in [4] After Davies' death she married ship's captain William Dugdale in Melbourne in March They settled at Queenscliff where sons Einnim, Carl and Austin were born. Dugdale was a vegetarian.[5][6]
After separating from William Dugdale in the late s, she moved to the Melbourne suburb of Camberwell where she remained until a few years before her death on 17 June at Point Lonsdale.
Her third husband Frederick Johnson, whom she married in , predeceased her.
Career
Dugdale's campaign for 'equal justice for women' began with a letter to Melbourne's Argus newspaper in April [7] It peaked during the s in radical public debate as a member of Melbourne's Eclectic Society and the Australasian Secular Association, through her utopianallegoryA Few Hours in a Far-Off Age[8] and in the formation in May of the Victorian Women's Suffrage Society, the first of its kind in Australia.
Henrietta dugdale biography Henrietta Augusta Dugdale , feminist, was born in London, probably in , daughter of John Worrell. She married young and arrived at Melbourne in with her husband, whose name was Davies. After his death she married William Dugdale; a son and two daughters were born to this marriage. About she married Frederick Johnson. Mrs Dugdale was a pugnacious pioneer of the women's movement, a member of the Eclectic Society formed in the s to discuss controversial subjects, and of the Australasian Secular Association.That same year, Henrietta wrote a scathing judgement of the Victorian courts, and their inability to protect women from violent crimes. Published in the Melbourne Herald, her words cut straight to the core of the issue: 'Women's anger,' she wrote, 'was compounded by the fact that those who inflicted violence upon women had a share in making the laws while their victims did not.'[citation needed]
Dugdale was acknowledged as a suffrage pioneer when Australian women attained the vote and the associated right to stand for federal parliament in June [9] (a world first) and when the State of Victoria[10] belatedly followed suit in December [11] Dugdale died on 17 June in Point Lonsdale, Australia.[1]
Legacy
A street in the Canberra suburb of Cook is named for her.[12]
In , Dugdale was nationally recognised as a critical first-wave Australian feminist, and The Dugdale Trust for Women & Girls, is named in honour of her life's work.
Dugdale was inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in [13] The Dugdale Trust for Women & Girls is a national harm-prevention institution for which The Victorian Women's Trust operates as trustee.