City West campus of the University of South Australia the Spence wing of the State Library of South Australia Catherine Helen Spence Street in the south-east of the city centre a plaque on the Jubilee 150 Walkway on North Terrace At her birthplace in Melrose, Scotland there is also a memorial plaque to Spence, now part of the Townhouse Hotel. The posthumous portrait of her, by Rose McPherson (later to become famous as Margaret Preston) is held by the Art Gallery of South Australia. This portrait was used as the basis of her appearance on 2001 edition of the Australian five dollar note, In 1975 she was honoured on a postage stamp bearing her portrait issued by Australia Post. The Catherine Helen Spence Memorial Scholarship was instituted by the South Australian Government in her honour for women aged 20–46. See separate article for a list of recipients. Her image appears on the commemorative Centenary of Federation Australian five-dollar note issued in 2001 replacing that of the Queen. One of the four schools at Aberfoyle Park, South Australia was named Spence in her honour. That school has since been amalgamated with another school to form Thiele Primary School. The name of the suburb Spence in the ACT is sometimes mistakenly associated with Catherine Spence, but was actually named after the unrelated William Guthrie Spence. Bibliography Novels Clara Morison: A Tale of South Australia During the Gold Fever (1854) Tender and True: A Colonial Tale (1856) Mr. Hogarth's Will (1865) originally serialised as Uphill Work in the (Adelaide) Weekly Mail The Author's Daughter (1868) originally serialised as Hugh Lindsay's Guest in the (Adelaide) Observer Gathered In serialised in Observer and Journal and Queenslander, possibly never published in book form An Agnostic's Progress from the Known to the Unknown (1884) A Week in the Future (1889) Handfasted (1984) Penguin Originals Non fiction A Plea for Pure Democracy (1861) pamphlet praised by John Stuart Mill and Thomas Hare The laws we live under (1880) for South Australian Education Department State children in Australia: A history of boarding out and its developments (1909) principally dealing with the work of Emily Clark This book was used by the British Home Secretary when at the end of her reign Queen Victoria asked him to formulate Child Laws in Britain that up until that time were non-existent. He wrote and thanked her for her work. Catherine Helen Spence: