She died of cancer at her home in South Yarra on 15 August 1949 and was cremated. Jacob, born at Cork, Ireland, on 10 March 1839 of Polish, Jewish and Irish stock, arrived in Victoria in 1858 and settled initially at Portland. In 1903, as an Independent with the support of the newly formed Women's Federal Political Association, she was a candidate for the Australian Senate, becoming the first woman in the British Empire to stand for election to a national parliament (Australian women had won the right to vote in federal elections in 1902). In 1919, with Cecilia John, she accepted an invitation to represent Australian women at a Women's Peace Conference in Zurich: she was away three years. Australian women had been granted the Federal vote in 1902 and on her return from America she became the first woman in the British Empire to be nominated and to stand for election to a national parliament. She polled well except in 1917 when she lost her deposit, partly because of her uncompromising position on pacifism during the war. Despite many suitors, she never married and she lived in her last years with her two sisters, Aileen (who also never wed) and Elsie (the widow of Henry Hyde Champion). Described by some as irascible, domineering and opinionated, he became estranged from his feminist wife, although they lived under the same roof. Jacob, born at Cork, Ireland, on 10 March 1839 of Polish, Jewish and Irish stock, arrived in Victoria in 1858 and settled initially at Portland. Five times a candidate for federal parliament in 1903-17, she advocated arbitration and conciliation, equal rights and pay, official posts for women and the redistribution of wealth. Information provided should not be construed or used as a substitute for professional or medical advice. Although an anti-suffragist, Jacob Goldstein believed strongly in education and self-reliance. She helped to found or supported many women's organizations including the National Council of Women, the Victorian Women's Public Servants' Association and the Women Writers' Club. In 1919 she accepted an invitation to represent Australian women at a Women's Peace Conference in Zurich. She was outspokenly opposed to capitalism, supporting production for use not profit, and public control of public utilities. She would stay on the periphery of the women's movement through the 1890s, but her primary interest during this period was with her school and urban social causes – particularly the National Anti-Sweating League and the Criminology Society. © 2016 Education Services Australia Ltd, except where indicated in Acknowledgements. A talented student, Goldstein received glowing progress reports throughout her youth, first from governesses and then as a pupil at the Presbyterian Ladies College. Credit: Kent has, in … From an early age Vida was made aware of the plight of the poor. Vida Goldstein. Died of cancer on August 15, 1949 at 80 years old. Her father, Kenneth Brown, was the oldest son of early settler and well-known politician Thomas Brown. In 1903 Goldstein was the first woman in the British Empire to try to become a member of a national parliament. Vida's own public career began about 1890 when she helped her mother collect signatures for the huge Woman Suffrage Petition. From Press cutting book presented to Edith How Morlyn for Women’s Service Library London by Vida Goldstein State Library of Victoria MS BOX 2493/ 5 / ˈ v aɪ d ə ˈ ɡ oʊ l d s t aɪ n /) (13 April 1869 – 15 August 1949) was an Australian suffragette and social reformer. In the ensuing three-year absence abroad her public involvement with Australian feminism gradually ended, with the Women's Political Association dissolving and her publications ceasing print. Vida Jane Mary Goldstein was born in Portland, Victoria. He was commissioned a lieutenant in the Victorian Garrison Artillery in 1867 and rose to the rank of colonel. In February 1911 she visited England at the invitation of the Women's Social and Political Union and her speeches drew huge crowds. A founding member of the Melbourne Charity Organisation Society, its honorary treasurer and later honorary secretary, Goldstein believed that charity and poor relief should be scientifically organized, not handed out indiscriminately. After living in Portland and Warrnambool, the Goldsteins moved to Melbourne in 1877. Among the girls in that first intake were Catherine Deakin, sister of Alfred Deakin the Australian Prime Minister, and Helen Mitchell who later became one of the most famous women in the world - opera singer Dame Nellie Melba (Ellen). Vida Jane Mary Goldstein (pron. Goldstein was born in Portland, Victoria. If that was all she stood for, her name would … She became a popular public speaker on women's issues, orating before packed halls around Australia and eventually Europe and the United States. Alice Henry wrote that Vida 'was the biggest thing that has happened to the woman movement for some time in England'. Her speeches around the country drew huge crowds and her tour was touted as 'the biggest thing that has happened in the women movement for some time in England'. Yet it is clear that Vida was a candidate of sincerity and integrity. She worked for the right of women to vote, called 'suffrage', and her parents encouraged her to be strong and free. In some disillusion, she became increasingly involved in Christian Science as a practitioner or healer, and at one time was a reader and president of its church in Melbourne which she had helped to found. Through the 1890s to the 1920s, Goldstein actively supported women's rights and emancipation in a variety of forums, including the National Council of Women, the Victorian Women's Public Servants' Association and the Women Writers' Club. In early 1911 Goldstein visited England at the behest of the Women's Social and Political Union. Vida Goldstein was a tireless and charismatic campaigner for women’s equality, universal suffrage and equal pay. She stood for parliament again in 1910, 1913 and 1914; her fifth and last bid was in 1917 for a Senate seat on the principle of international peace, a position which lost her votes. GOLDSTEIN, VIDA JANE MARY (1869–1949), feminist and suffragist, was born on 13 April 1869 at Portland, Victoria, eldest child of Jacob Robert Yannasch Goldstein and his wife Isabella, née Hawkins. There Jacob worked as a contract draughtsman. Goldstein's parents gave her a good education and an interest in public affairs. Her campaign secretary in 1913 was Doris Blackburn, later elected to the Australian House of Representatives. In addition, the inclusion or exclusion of any treatment or product in editorial or advertising does not imply that the Publisher advocates or rejects its use. She continued to campaign for a number of public causes, and continued to believe fervently in the unique and unharnessed contributions of women in society. Between 1899 and 1908 Vida's first priority was the suffrage. Her death passed almost unnoticed. After the death of Bear-Crawford in 1899, Goldstein took on a much greater organising and lobbying role for suffrage and became secretary for the United Council for Woman Suffrage. In 1902 she travelled to the United States of America to speak at the International Woman Suffrage Conference, was elected secretary, gave evidence in favour of woman suffrage to a committee of the United States Congress and attended the International Council of Women Conference. Of Australian suffragists in this period, Goldstein was one of a handful to garner an international reputation. Mary Blathwayt's parents were the hosts and they planted trees there between April 1909 and July 1911 to commemorate the achievements of suffragettes including Adela's mother and sister, Christabel as well as Annie Kenney, Charlotte Despard, Millicent Fawcett and Lady Lytton. Vida soon became active in the National Anti-Sweating League and the Criminology Society. Vida Goldstein, the subject of this 2020 biography by Jacqueline Kent, did not receive a full-length biography until 1993, when Janette Bomford published her book That Dangerous and Persuasive Woman: Vida Goldstein, which I reviewed here. He was a member of the Women's Hospital Committee for many years and also helped to promote the Cheltenham Men's Home. The loss prompted her to concentrate on female education and political organisation, which she did through the Women's Political Association (WPA) and her monthly journal the Australian Women's Sphere, which she described as the "organ of communication amongst the, at one time few, but now many, still scattered, supporters of the cause". Vida and her sisters were all well educated by a private governess; from 1884 Vida attended Presbyterian Ladies' College where she matriculated in 1886. When the family income was affected by the depression in Melbourne during the 1890s, Vida and her sisters, Aileen and Elsie, ran a co-educational preparatory school in St Kilda. She became chairman of the Peace Alliance, formed the Women's Peace Army in 1915, and was involved in much valuable social work including the organization of a women's unemployment bureau in 1915–16 and a Women's Rural Industries Co. Ltd. In her article 'Socialism of today – An Australian view' in the September 1907 issue of Nineteenth Century and After, she included in cost-of-living tables her findings on the lowest wage that a man and his family needed to pay for the barest necessities; this information, it is claimed, influenced Mr Justice Henry Higgins in handing down his famous Harvester Judgment which established the legislative concept of a basic wage. They had four more children after Vida – three daughters (Lina, Elsie and Aileen) and a son (Selwyn). How did you wind up with so many? When she was a child the family moved to Melbourne and she attended the Ladies' Presbyterian College. She became involved in women's suffrage activities through her mother (1890). We would suggest that a healthcare professional should be consulted before adopting any opinions or suggestions contained on this website. After her family experienced some financial troubles, Goldstein and her sisters opened a school for boys and girls in Melbourne, Victoria. She became increasingly involved with the Christian Science movement – whose Melbourne church she helped found. An attractive girl, always well dressed, she led, for a time, a light-hearted social life. Although an anti-suffragist, Jacob Goldstein encouraged his daughters to be economically and intellectually independent. She always campaigned on fiercely independent and strongly left-wing platforms which made it difficult for her to attract high support at the ballot. As a young woman, she worked with her mother in the anti-sweating movement and developed an anti-capitalist perspective. Among the recurrent themes in her writings were her visionary suggestions for a new social order which was to have a spiritual foundation and be based on the 'brotherhood of man' concept of true socialism and on Christian ethics. She was now deeply committed to internationalism. Her rigidly independent status alienated party supporters, and the press was either antagonistic to her, misrepresented her or ignored her. JANICE N. BROWNFOOT Both parents were devout Christians with strong social consciences. For the next two decades she would work as a reader, practitioner and healer of the church. Vida Goldstein (1869-1949) led the radical women’s movement in Victoria in 1899-1919. Presbyterian Ladies' College was founded in 1875 in East Melbourne with an initial enrolment of sixty students. She opposed the White Australia policy in principle although she believed alien immigration should be restricted until equal pay for equal work had been achieved. Haldeman – White House Chief of Staff under Nixon during Watergate Vida Goldstein. Vida actively promoted women's rights and emancipation in many other ways over the years from 1891 to 1919. *For further information and full bio please visit below website. During World War I Vida was uncompromisingly pacifist. In her first bid as an Independent candidate for the Senate in 1903, she was proposed and assisted by the Women's Federal Political Association. In 1903, as an Independent, she became the first woman in the British Empire to stand for election to a national parliament. From Vida Goldstein 1869-1949: Biographical notes by her niece, Leslie M. Henderson, 1966 January. Written by Clare Wright, La Trobe University Born in Portland, Victoria in 1869, Vida Goldstein was the eldest of five children, raised in a affluent middle-class home and educated at Presbyterian Ladies College in Melbourne. She believed that men and women should have equal rights. Bob Goodlatte – member of the United States House of Representatives; Paul Gore-Booth, Baron Gore-Booth – British diplomat and politician: 59–79; H.R. DISCLAIMER Her father was an Irish immigrant and officer in the Victorian Garrison Artillery. Her mother was a suffragist, a teetotaller and worked for social reform. Later, she became involved in the suffrage movement. Indeed, although she had always refused to join a party, Vida sympathized deeply with labour and the cause of working peoples. Goldstein was the surname of a wizarding family. She also ran a co-ed primary school, founded the monthly publication Women's Sphere, launched the weekly publication The Women's Voter, and was a founding member of the National Council of Women. Kent shows Goldstein as a pioneer who worked tirelessly for all her 80 years and lived a full and, for her time, unusual life. With Strong, Dr Llewelyn Bevan and others Goldstein assisted with the project which began in 1892 for forming labour colonies, notably at Leongatha. She also worked for many social reforms including equal property rights for man and wife and raising the age of marriage and consent, while advocating new laws on land taxation, food adulteration and the sweating of women workers. In 1892–98, when the family income was affected by Melbourne's bank crashes, she conducted with her sisters a co-educational preparatory school in Alma Road, St Kilda. MS BOX 332/14. Her writings in latter decades became decidedly more sympathetic to socialist and labour politics. Once the State franchise was won in 1908 Vida returned to national politics and made four more attempts to gain election to Federal parliament: in 1910 and 1917 for the Senate and in 1913 and 1914 for the House of Representatives, always as an Independent Woman Candidate. L. M. Henderson, The Goldstein Story (Melbourne, 1973); S. Encel et al, Women and Society (Melbourne, 1974); J. Brownfoot and D. Scott, The Unequal Half (Sydney, 1976); New Idea, 1 Oct 1902; Imperial Review, 1904, no 39; Votes for Women (London), 4 (Mar 1911), no 159; Australian Journal of Politics and History, Nov 1960; Labour History, May 1968, no 14; Table Talk (Melbourne), 27 Oct 1899; J. N. Brownfoot, Women Organisations …in Victoria c.1890 to c.1908 (B.A. In 1909, having closed the Sphere in 1905 to dedicate herself more fully to the campaign for female suffrage in Victoria, she founded a second newspaper – Woman Voter, which became a supporting mouthpiece for her later political campaigns. ... with a restless go-ahead population”. Of the four sisters, Lina in 1892 married a banker H. J. Henderson, son of Rev. Goldstein’s trip to England concluded with the foundation of the Australia and New Zealand Women Voters Association, an organisation dedicated to ensuring that the British Parliament would not undermine suffrage laws in the antipodean colonies. All Rights Reserved. Although Vida Goldstein may appear to have been a visionary idealist, yet by her pioneering efforts, her successes and her failures, she was a trail-blazer who provided leadership and inspiration to innumerable people. Vida Goldstein’s internationalism was just one aspect of her life that Janette Bomford highlights for us in this biography. Opening in 1892, the 'Ingleton' school would run out of the family home on Alma Road for the next six years. Concluding after her defeat that women needed greater organization, she began educating female voters through the renamed Women's Political Association (W.P.A. Goldstein was well educated, and she attended the Presbyterian Ladies’ College. Despite ridicule of her candidacy, at the December election she polled 51 497 votes. At a time when women elsewhere in the Empire were still fighting for the right to vote, New Zealand and Australian women (who received the vote in 1893 and 1902 respectively) were feted in suffragist circles as an example of the new world to come (similar I … 2. Vida Goldstein – Australian suffragette and social reformer. She actively lobbied parliament on issues such as equality of property rights, birth control, equal naturalisation laws, the creation of a system of children's courts, and raising the age of marriage consent. Eagle House near Bath in Somerset had become an important refuge for British suffragettes who had been released from prison. When Goldstein began her career in the 1870s women had no right to buy property, so Vida lobbied for a change to that law. She recruited Adela Pankhurst (recently arrived from England) as an organiser. Vida Goldstein was born in Victoria, New South Wales on 13th April 1869. From Vida Goldstein’s papers: State Library of Victoria MS MSM 118. She also campaigned untiringly for the State suffrage. Vida Jane Mary Goldstein (13 April 1869 – 15 August 1949) was an Australian suffragette and social reformer. In addition, whilst every care is taken to compile and check articles written for The Art of Healing for accuracy, the Publisher, Editor, Authors, their servants and agents will not be held responsible or liable for any published errors, omissions or inaccuracies, or for any consequences arising there from. Although they changed in detail, she consistently supported the principles of compulsory arbitration and conciliation, equal rights, equal pay, the appointment of women to a variety of official posts, and the introduction of legislation which would redistribute the country's wealth. Her desire to enter parliament and her avowed ambition to become prime minister were based on her determination to put her ideals into practice. She was one of four female candidates at the 1903 federal election, the first at which women were eligible to stand. Photograph: National Library of Australia. Vida's mother was a confirmed suffragist, an ardent teetotaller and a zealous worker for social reform. He died at their apartment in Bank Place in the city on 21 September 1910. Throughout the inter-war years, although no longer publicly prominent, Vida continued to lobby for social reforms such as improved provision of birth control and equal naturalization laws, and urged both women and men to support disarmament and to oppose war. He was commissioned a lieutenant in the Victorian Garrison Artillery in 1867 and rose to the rank of colonel. Vida Goldstein was born in … This work gave her first-hand experience of women's social and economic disadvantages, which she would come to believe were a product of their political inequality. 2020, 284 p. Perhaps biographies are like buses….nothing for ages, and then two or three arrive all at once. Vida Goldstein, born 1869 in Portland, Victoria, was one of the first women in the Western world to stand for election to a national parliament. One of five children, Vida Goldstein was educated at Presbyterian Ladies' College in Melbourne. She believed that men and women should have equal rights. In 1903 she became the first woman to stand for parliament in the British Empire. It had both magical and Muggle heritage,1 and may have been an old, large family, as it had branches in both the United Kingdom and the United States.567 However, it remains unknown in which country the family originated. All material on The Art of Healing website should be used as a guide only. According to a testimonial from her supporters, she 'offered to the people the wit and eloquence of an orator, the knowledge and foresight of a statesman, and the devotion and courage of a brave woman'. Goldstein ran a co-educational preparatory school. In 1902 she travelled to the United States, speaking at the International Women Suffrage Conference (where she was elected secretary), gave evidence in favour of female suffrage before a committee of the United States Congress, and attended the International Council of Women Conference. This association had been formed to organize the women's vote for the first Federal elections, but by July 1903 with Vida as president it had become a vehicle for her platform and opinions. In 1891, Isabella Goldstein recruited the 22-year-old Vida to assist in collecting signatures for a women's suffrage petition. In 1890 Goldstein went house to house with her mother, collecting signatures for a monster petition in support of the vote for women. 1914: ran for Senate, but did not win 1917: ran for Senate again, and still did not win. In 1891, Isabella Goldstein recruited the 22-year-old Vida to assist in collecting signatures for a women's suffrage petition. The trees were known as "Annie's Arboreatum" after Annie Kenney. He engaged a private governess to educate his four daughters and Vida was sent to Presbyterian Ladies' College in 1884, matriculating in 1886. But there were other reasons for her failures. In 1899 after the death of Mrs Bear-Crawford, she was undisputed leader of the radical women's movement in Victoria, and that year made her first public-speaking appearance to advocate the vote for woman. On 3 June 1868 he married Isabella (1849–1916), eldest daughter of Sc… Through this work she became friends with Annette Bear-Crawford, with whom she jointly campaigned for social issues including women's franchise and in organising an appeal for the Queen Victoria Hospital for women. Although an anti-suffragist, Jacob Goldstein encouraged his daughters to be economically and intellectually independent. This trip signalled the end of her active public involvement in Australian feminist and political work: the Women's Political Association was dissolved, the Woman Voter ceased publication and Vida turned her attention increasingly to promoting more general causes, particularly pacifism and an international sisterhood of women. Joe went back to school, the game was over, and Joe was It for life. Vida Goldstein (1869–1949) Vida Goldstein was born in Portland, Victoria. Goldstein was quoted from the period as saying that women represent "the mercury in the thermometer of the race. Other sites of interest concerning Vida Goldstein include: Vida Goldstein was born in Portland, Victoria. A portrait of her, painted by Phyl Waterhouse from a photograph, is held by the National Library of Australia, Canberra. Any unauthorised use of the content, arrangement or layout of the site, or the trademarks found in the site may violate civil or criminal laws, including, but not limited to, Copyright © The Art of Healing. An award is given out in her name in Victoria: Vida Goldstein Awards . Vida Goldstein died of cancer at her home in South Yarra, Victoria on 15 August 1949, aged 80. The content, arrangement and layout of this site, including, but not limited to, the trademarks and text, are proprietary to The Art of Healing, and should not be copied, imitated, reproduced, displayed, distributed, or transmitted without the express permission of The Art of Healing. Suffragette Vida Goldstein was the first Australian to meet an American president at the White House. She also ran a co-ed primary school, founded the monthly publication Women's Sphere, launched the weekly publication The Women's Voter, and was a founding member of the National Council of Women." In the 1890s she also became involved in the National Anti-Sweating League, the Criminology Society and various social welfare activities, particularly those promoted by Strong and by her close friend Annette Bear-Crawford, with whom she helped to organize the Queen Victoria Hospital Appeal for the Queen's jubilee in 1897. She became chairman of the Peace Alliance and formed the Women's Peace Army in 1915. With respect to article submissions, these are invited but it should be understood that the Editor reserves the final right to edit all articles for length and content prior to publishing. Although an anti-suffragist, Jacob Goldstein encouraged his daughters to be economically and intellectually independent. William Henderson; Elsie married Henry Hyde Champion in 1898; Aileen and Vida did not marry, though Vida had many proposals. ), through her paper the Woman's Sphere which she owned and edited between September 1900 and March 1905, and by lecture tours around Victoria. In her last years Vida lived quietly with her sisters Elsie and Aileen, who was also a practitioner.
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