PhotographerJohnstone, O'Shannessy & Co., photographerTitleCatherine Helen SpenceDate taken[approximately 1901]DescriptionCatherine Helen Spence, seated at a desk. She is wearing a formal dress with cap, a watch chain and a horseshoe brooch at her throat. She was a journalist, novelist, social and political reformer and a champion for women's rights including the vote. At her death in 1910 she was mourned as 'the grand old woman of Australia'.