{"id":1546,"date":"2014-12-03T22:19:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T12:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1546"},"modified":"2023-08-29T22:19:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T12:19:42","slug":"160th-anniversary-of-eureka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1546","title":{"rendered":"160th Anniversary of Eureka"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At a seminar in Canberra to commemorate Eureka, Dr Clare Wright (along with\u00a0Dr Anne Beggs-Sunter from Ballarat, the only female presenters) again highlighted the importance of women before and during the uprising,\u00a0in the course of which one woman was killed. One was\u00a0influential bloomerist (sensible clothes wearer)\u00a0Willy (Wilhemina)\u00a0Train along with Clara Seekamp writing\u00a0stirring editorials in The Ballarat Times\u00a0and Ellen Young, the real leader of Eureka, penning inflammatory poetry in the republican tradition. The women\u00a0of Eurkea\u00a0are now considered to be the\u00a0more passionate revolutionaries urging on\u00a0men of weaker spirit.\u00a0The first novel written about Australia by a woman, also about the\u00a0goldfields,\u00a0is republican\u00a0Catherine Helen Spence&#8217;s &#8220;<em>Clara Morison: A Tale of South Australia During the Gold Fever&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>published in 1854, the same\u00a0year\u00a0as Eureka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a seminar in Canberra to commemorate Eureka, Dr Clare Wright (along with\u00a0Dr Anne Beggs-Sunter from Ballarat, the only female presenters) again highlighted the importance of women before and during the uprising,\u00a0in the course of which one woman was killed&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-18","wpcat-18-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1547,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions\/1547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}