Recognition
There are numerous memorials to Spence around the Adelaide city centre, including:
- a bronze statue in Light Square
- the Catherine Helen Spence building in the City West campus of the University of South Australia
- the Spence wing of the State Library of South Australia
- Catherine Helen Spence Street in the south-east of the city centre
- a plaque on the Jubilee 150 Walkway on North Terrace
A posthumous portrait of her, by Rose McPherson (later to become famous as Margaret Preston) is held by the Art Gallery of South Australia.
In 1975 she was honoured on a postage stamp bearing her portrait issued by Australia Post.
Her image appears on the commemorative Centenary of Federation Australian five dollar note issued in 2001.
One of the four schools at Aberfoyle Park, South Australia was named Spence in her honour. That school has since been amalgamated with another school to form Thiele Primary School.
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