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Article: 'There is no question more perplexing at the present time and more frequently discussed than women's place in society': Leontine Cooper and the Queensland suffrage movement, 1888-1903.
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- October 1, 2004
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Leontine Cooper firmly believed that 'till women have a political vote ... no real amelioration of their position can take place'. (1) Short-story writer, journalist, teacher and bi-lingual scholar, she was Queensland's most significant writer addressing the rights of white women during the suffrage movement (which culminated in 1905 with the granting of one person one vote in the Lower House). By the late 1880s she had emerged as one of the key activists--from 1894 she was president of the Women's Franchise League and in the mid 1890s she edited Queensland's only women's suffrage paper, the Star. An acute and insightful commentator, Cooper is said to have had a 'slow ...