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18/4/1864 |
Middleton Creek, Victoria |
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15/4/1922 |
Villarrica, Paraguay |
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| writer, poet, union activist
According to Jimmy Cadogan . . . .
Born in Daylesford (Crow Diggings), in the Goldfields of Victoria, she was married at the age of 21 to Henry Lewis Summerfield, a well stablished tailor of Waverley,Sydney and 34 years her senior. They lived in Porter St., at a place known as "Summerfield Terraces", and nearby was the well known Waverley House, where Rose addressed political activists, members of New Australian Workers Union ,and the movement of women's suffrage. She was widowed after only 4 years of marriage, with one son born in 1887.
Rose had the opportunity to visit towns in NSW and Queensland - she had become famous in Sydney with her paper contributions and her harangue to the people, inciting them to "Agitate..agitate" . While in Paraguay she maintained correspondence with the Australian Workers paper, and her last contribution was to the Brisbane Workers, with a poem entitled "Australia" in 1915. By that time she was quite disilllusioned, as it was shown earlier in 1907 when she wrote to the Sydney Workers about Paraguay, warning the readers not to believe all they hear about the country: ".. It is a fine country, but, owing to the ignorance, indolence, and superstition of the natives, it is a poor place to live in, and anyone may do better in any part of Australia. One regrets that such good workers in the reform cause should be buried among strangers and retrogrades" (Workers, 23 Nov.1901) - It does show how quickly dispair and repentance took over her initial euphoric decision to emigrate with John Cadogan and her 11 years old son from her first marriage. |
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