Henrietta Augusta Dugdale (née Worrell; 14 May 1827 – 17 June 1918) was a pioneer Australian who initiated the first women's suffrage society in Australia.

[5][6] After separating from William Dugdale in the late 1860s, she moved to the Melbourne suburb of Camberwell where she remained until a few years before her death on 17 June 1918 at Point Lonsdale.

That same year, Henrietta wrote a scathing judgement of the Victorian courts, and their inability to protect women from violent crimes.

Published in the Melbourne Herald, her words cut straight to the core of the issue: 'Women's anger,' she wrote, 'was compounded by the fact that those who inflicted violence upon women had a share in making the laws while their victims did not.

'[citation needed] Dugdale was acknowledged as a suffrage pioneer when Australian women attained the vote and the associated right to stand for federal parliament in June 1902[9] (a world first) and when the State of Victoria[10] belatedly followed suit in December 1908.