Lilian Staple Mead (30 June 1865 – 27 November 1936) was an Australian suffragette and children's book author.
[3][4][5] She commenced a Bachelor of Arts at Adelaide University,[3] but withdrew after the death of her stepmother in 1886 to care for her father.
Mead was a signatory on the Women's Suffrage Petition in 1894, which is acknowledged by the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme as an Archival treasure.
Both highly intellectual women, both ideal wives and mothers, both occupying prominent and public positions, they were intensely and undeniably womanly.
[5]Mead was a leader alongside her father in Christian Endeavour and in 1897 gave an address at the society's international convention in California[6][7] called "The World's Prayer Chain" in which she called for prayers for, among other things, the downfall of caste in India and the abolishment of foot-binding in China.