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Woman's Christian Temperance Union of South Australia (1889 - )

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Function: Religious organisation, Lobby group and Women's Rights Organisation

The South Australian branch was founded in1889, following a visit from American spokesperson, Jessie Ackermann. Its purpose was to promote temperance and Christianity in order to improve people’s lives and so also involved tackling questions such as raising the age of marriage consent for girls and women’s suffrage. By 1899 membership of the various branches numbered over 1100. Elizabeth Webb Nicholls was its first president and served two terms; 1889-1997 and 1906-1927 and in 1891 Mary George became its first paid secretary. Under Nicholls’ leadership the Union took an active role in the campaign for women’s suffrage in South Australia, having a suffrage department convened by Serena Thorne Lake in 1890-1891, and became involved with the Women's Suffrage League.

 
Sources used to compile this entry: Allen, Margaret, Mary Hutchison & Alison Mackinnon, Fresh Evidence, New Witnesses: Finding Women’s Story, South Australian Government Printer: Netley (SA), 1989. (Especially Part Four, Chapter One); Craig, Maureen ‘Of Lengthening Cords and Strengthening Stakes: The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of South Australia, 1886-1996’ B.A. Honours Thesis, University of Adelaide, 1983; Daniels, Kay, Mary Murnane and Anne Picot (Eds.) Women in Australia: An Annotated Guide to the Records, Canberra: Australian Government Printing Service, 1977, Vol.1 pp.176-177; Jones, Helen In Her Own Name: A History of Women in South Australia from 1836, Wakefield Press: Kent Town (SA), 1986; McCorkindale, Isabel (Ed.) Torchbearers. The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of South Australia 1886-1948, Adelaide 1949.
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Books

  • Ideal recipe book for use of currants, raisins, sultanas and grapes : also recipes for refreshing fruit beverages and party drinks Edition 4th ed. Publication Details [Adelaide : , 1933?] (Adelaide : Reliance Printery) Physical Description 32p. : ill. ; 21cm., 4 edn, Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Adelaide, 1933?, 32 pp. [ Details... ]
  • Harry, Millicent K. (Millicent Kate), A Century of Service: The history of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of South Australia Inc. : supplementing 'Torchbearers' (the first sixty years), WCTU of South Australia, Adelaide, 1986, 131 pp. [ Details... ]
  • Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Western Australia, History of the Union, J.D. Reeves & Son Printer, 1952. [ Details... ]

Edited Books

  • McCorkindale, Isabel (ed.), Torch-bearers : the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of South Australia, 1886-1948, Woman's Christian Temperance Union of South Australia, Adelaide, 1949, 183 pp. [ Details... ]

Journals

Journal Articles

  • Luxton, Janet, 'The Woman's Christian Temperance Union of South Australia AU: SO: , v.16 1988 : 134-142 DEMJ: Women's-rights; South-Australia: Social-history DEMN: Alcohol-abuse ID: Women's Suffrage League (SA) NS: Woman's Christian Temperance Union (Adelaide)', Cabbages and Kings, no. 16, 1988, pp. 134-142. [ Details... ]

Newsletters

  • The Patriot, George Hassell & Son for the S.A. Alliance, Adelaide, 1907-1968. [ Details... ]

Pamphlets

  • Jubilee Thanksgiving Memorial 1886-1936 / Woman's Christian Temperance Union of South Australia Publication Details [Adelaide] : The Union, 1936. Physical Description 31 p. : ill., ports. ; 28 cm., The Union, Adelaide, 1936, 31 pp. [ Details... ]
  • The Old Order Changeth, Woman's Christian Temperance Union of South Australia,, Adelaide, 1938, 15 pp. [ Details... ]
  • Abbott, Edith S., New Lives for Old: The story of the prison work of Mrs. E.B. Turner as state superintendent of prison work in South Australia for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union 1909-1939, Hunkin, Ellis & King, Adelaide, ca1940. [ Details... ]
  • Mead, Lilian S., The Awakened Woman, Paper read at seventh annual Convention of Woman's Christian Temperance Union of South Australia, Hussey & Gillingham Publication Details [S.l : s.n., 1895] (Adelaide :, Adelaide, 1895, 53 pp. [ Details... ]

Reports

  • Woman's Christian Temperance Union of South Australia. Convention, Minutes of ... annual convention, The Union, Adelaide, 1890-1931. [ Details... ]
  • Woman's Christian Temperance Union of South Australia. Convention, Report of ... annual convention, The Union, Adelaide, 1932-. [ Details... ]

Theses

  • Craig, Maureen., 'Of lengthening cords and strengthening stakes : the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of South Australia, 1886-1896', Thesis, University of Adelaide, 1983, 53 pp. [ Details... ]
  • Wiles, David, 'As High as Heaven: The Woman's Christian Temperance Union in South Australia, 1886-1915', BA honours thesis, University of Adelaide, 1978, 102 pp. [ Details... ]

See also

  • The Alliance news : the organ of the South Australian Alliance, W.C.T. Union and the temperance organizations of the colony, Printed and published by George Hassell & Son for the S.A. Alliance, Adelaide, [1898-1907]. [ Details... ]
  • Allen, Margaret (Margaret Ellen), 1947- ; Hutchison, Mary and Mackinnon, Alison, 1942-, Fresh evidence, new witnesses : finding women's history, South Australian Government Printer, Netley, SA, 1989, 284 pp. [ Details... ]
  • Daniels, Kay, Murnane, Mary, Picot, Anne and National Research Program (Australia) (eds), Women in Australia : an annotated guide to records, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1977. [ Details... ]
  • Helen Jones, In her own name. A history of women in South Australia from 1836, Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 1986, 356 pp. [ Details... ]

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