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A Short Biography of Louisa Lawson

Author Name:

Louisa Lawson

Born As:

Louisa Albury

Other Names:

Louisa Lawson

Born:

17 Feb 1848

Died:

12 Aug 1920




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Writer, suffragist and feminist                          
                          
The second of twelve children.
Husband Niels Larsen (Peter Lawson), four children.                          
Bought a share in the radical pro-federation newspaper The Republican in 1887.

In 1889 Lawson founded The Dawn Club, which became the hub of the suffrage movement in Sydney. In 1891 the New South Wales Women's Suffrage League formed to campaign for women's suffrage, and Lawson allowed the League to use the Dawn office to print pamphlets and literature free of charge. When women were finally given the vote, in 1902 with the passing of the New South Wales Womanhood Suffrage Bill,

Edit and published The Dawn in 1888, the first journal produced solely by women.
Her son Henry Lawson also wrote poems and stories for the paper. The Dawn press printed Henry's first book Short Stories in Prose and Verse in 1894.