Writer, newspaper proprietor and advocate for women's rights and womanhood suffrage.
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Milestone
Born
Guntawang station, near Mudgee, New South Wales
17 Feb 1848
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Died
Gladesville Hospital for the Insane, Sydney
12 Aug 1920
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Writer, publisher, inventor and activist, Louisa Lawson influenced Sydney life at the turn of the twentieth century in many ways. At her death, she was called 'the mother of womanhood suffrage in New South Wales'.
