Australia
The first wave of Australian feminism, which dates back to the late nineteenth century, was chiefly concerned with suffrage (women's right to vote) and consequently with women's access to parliaments and other political activities.
Rose Scott is an excellent example. In 1882, Scott began to hold a weekly salon in her Sydney home left to her by her late mother. Through these meetings, she became well known amongst politicians, judges, philanthropists, writers and poets. In 1889, she helped to found the Women's Literary Society, which later grew into the Womanhood Suffrage League in 1891. Being left her mother's home, Rose hosted a salon there, leading politicians such as Bernhard Ringrose Wise, William Holman, W. M. Hughes and Thomas Bavin met and discussed the drafting of the bill that eventually became the Early Closing Act of 1899.
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