After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits. Catherine Helen Spence on health
I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both. Catherine Helen Spence on marriage
I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times. Catherine Helen Spence on teacher