Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales

[1][2] The first chair for the meeting was Dr. Vandaleur Kelly and Mary Windeyer was elected the foundation President of the League,[3] while Rose Scott held the position of Secretary.

[4][5] They held their bi-monthly meetings at the offices of The Dawn and Mary Windeyer resigned from her role in March 1893, when she left Australia and travelled to Chicago, she was replaced by Mrs Louis Haigh.

[8] On 14 October 1892, prior to the introduction of the Electoral Bill by the NSW Ministry, a deputation from the League which included Lady Windeyer and Mrs Lawson was received by Sir George Dibbs, who promised to bring their request before the Cabinet.

[9] On 19 September 1893 the governor of New Zealand signed a new Electoral Act into law which made it the first self-governing country in the world in which women had the right to vote in parliamentary elections.

[14] Started in 1894, this magazine was the official organ of the Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales and was entirely edited by women working from offices at 80 Albion Street, Sydney.

Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales, 1902, back row, standing (L to R) Mrs Jackson (President of the Redfern Branch), Mrs Wynn (President of the Annandale Branch), Miss Caldwell (Camperdown), Mrs T. Parkes (President of the Toxteth League), Mrs Hansen (President of the Newtown Branch). Middle row, seated, Mrs McDonald (President of the Glebe Branch), Miss Annie Golding (Organising Secretary of the United Branches), Mrs Chapman (Secretary of the Redfern Branch), front row, seated, Mrs C. Martel (Recording Secretary of the Central League), Miss Belle Golding (Secretary of the Newtown Branch), Mrs Dickie (ex-President of the Newtown League), Mrs Dwyer (Secretary of the Camperdown Branch), from Further Freeman Studio, Sydney, photographic portraits, State Library of New South Wales, ON 219 (96)