Geraldine Rede

[1] Rede and her five siblings were the product of her father's relentless pursuit of her mother, who married on 9 January 1873 at St Paul’s Church of England in Ballarat.

[1] Rede's brother, Lieutenant Paston Hubert Rede, enlisted in the Boer War in 1902 and served in the 4th Battalion Australian Commonwealth Horse (VIC) and the 4th Lighthorse Brigade, where he was promoted to Lieutenant.

[5][6] Rede sketched a portrait around 1900 of a young Miles Franklin called The White Feather that is held in the National Library of Australia's collection.

[7] In 1911 Rede became honorary secretary of the Women's Political Association,[8] a non-party organisation founded by Vida Goldstein in 1903,[9] which published the monthly paper, Woman Voter.

[10] Rede and Goldstein's sister Aileen[11] visited London in 1914 to attend the Conference of the Overseas Union.