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Catherine H. Spence

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Catherine Helen Spence (1825-1910), writer and reformer, came to South Australia aged 14 and began her career with a number of pioneering novels, including Clara Morison (1854).

Ernest Walter Histed

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Ernest Walter Histed was born in Brighton, UK, but made his reputation as a photographer in Chicago and later in Pittsburgh.

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Amy Castles

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Amy Castles (1880–1951), soprano, was born in Melbourne and educated at schools in Bendigo, where her family lived from the early 1880s.

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