Catherine Helen Spence - Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wive

Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returned to grow grain and produce to send to Victoria.

- Catherine Helen Spence

source: Catherine Helen Spence, Susan Magarey, Maryan Beams (2005). “Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)”, p.61, Wakefield Press

topic: Children, Hands, Wife, Victoria, Australian