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Annie Lowe
Annie Lowe (1834–1910) was a suffragist in Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. She and Henrietta Dugdale founded the Victorian Women's Suffrage Society (the suffragettes) in 1884, the first organisation of this kind to be established in Australia. Biography Lowe née Hopkins was born in 1834. Her father was involved with establishing universal suffrage for men in New South Wales. She moved to Victoria with her husband Josiah Alexander Lowe. In 1884 she helped found the Victorian Women's Suffrage Society. She was known for her public speaking. She lived to see the women of Victoria given the right to vote in 1908, but died before being able to vote in the 1911 state election. Upon her death ''The Herald'' newspaper reported that in Lowe 'will be written in our history as the mother of our suffrage movement'. References 1834 births 1910 deaths People from the Colony of Victoria Australian suffragists {{Activist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria (Australia)
Victoria is a state in southeastern Australia. It is the second-smallest state with a land area of , the second most populated state (after New South Wales) with a population of over 6.5 million, and the most densely populated state in Australia (28 per km2). Victoria is bordered by New South Wales to the north and South Australia to the west, and is bounded by the Bass Strait to the south (with the exception of a small land border with Tasmania located along Boundary Islet), the Great Australian Bight portion of the Southern Ocean to the southwest, and the Tasman Sea (a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean) to the southeast. The state encompasses a range of climates and geographical features from its temperate coastal and central regions to the Victorian Alps in the northeast and the semi-arid north-west. The majority of the Victorian population is concentrated in the central-south area surrounding Port Phillip Bay, and in particular within the metropolit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
