Louisa Lawson

thumb|Louisa Lawson, 1880s Louisa Lawson (17 February 1848 – 12 August 1920) was an Australian newspaper editor, poet, suffragist and feminist. Quotes The popular idea of an advocate of women's rights is this:—she is an angular hard-featured withered creature with a shrill, harsh voice, no pretence to comeliness, spectacles on nose, and the repulsive title, "blue-stocking" visible all over her. Metaphorically she is supposed to hang half way over the bar which separates the sexes, shaking her skinny fist at men and all their works. I don't think it will be difficult to unseat this idea as soon as we can get people to think about the subject at all, for it is remarkable that almost every thinking man who does investigate the topic seriously, at once hands in his allegiance. A paper read at the Dawn Club by the President (Louisa Lawson), published in The Dawn, 1 July 1889. External links Category:Feminists Category:Publishers from Australia Category:People from New South Wales Category:1848 births Category:1920 deaths Category:Editors from Australia Category:Poets from Australia Category:Women authors from Australia Category:Women born in the 19th century