No Tags for this person

Add a tag


Separate multiple tags with a semicolon test cricket; Perth (WA)

Goldstein, Vida (1869-1949)

Persistent Identifier
http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-599050

Biographies

Australian Women's Register

Vida Goldstein ran for the Australian Senate in 1903. Though she was not elected, she was the first woman to be nominated for the Australian Parliament.

One of five children, Vida Goldstein was educated at Presbyterian Ladies College in Melbourne. As a young woman, she worked with her mother in the anti-sweating movement and developed an anti-capitalist perspective. Later, she became involved in the suffrage movement. She was a paid organiser for the United Council for Women's Suffrage, and she founded the Women's Political Association. From 1900 to 1905 she produced and edited a monthly feminist journal, Woman's Sphere. When the International Women's Suffrage Alliance was formed, Goldstein was elected as corresponding secretary. She helped to found the National Council of Women, and was the Delegate from Australia and New Zealand to the International Woman Suffrage Conference in Washington D.C. in 1902.

Vida Goldstein was nominated by the Women's Federal Political Association as a cadidate for the Senate in 1903. She became the subject of heated controversy, stating her policies in feminist terms. Goldstein polled 51,497 votes but was not elected. A further four attempts before 1917 were also unsuccessful. After the award of state suffrage in 1908, Goldstein launched a new journal, Woman Voter. In 1915, she founded the Women's Peace Army alongside Cecilia John, Adela Pankhurst and Jennie Baines.

View the full record at Australian Women's Register

Related people and organisations

Resources

Selected resources (44)

Australian Women's Register

  1. Vida Goldstein and the English militant campaign of the Women's Social and Political Union
    Caine, Barbara
    [1993]
  2. The lady politician: Vida Goldstein's first Senate campaign
    Bomford, Janette
    [1996]
    Published: Hale and Iremonger, Sydney
  3. The Australian Woman's Sphere
    [1900-1905]
    Published: Vida Goldstein, Melbourne
  4. Colonial Eve : sources on women in Australia, 1788-1914
    Ruth Teale
    [1978]
    Published: Oxford University Press, Melbourne
  5. Woman Suffrage in Australia
    Vida Goldstein
    [1910?]
    Published: The Woman's Press, London
  6. Recommendations in favour of voluntary methods of dealing with venereal diseases: as agreed upon by the Women's Political Association and the Women's Convention
    Vida Goldstein
    [1916]
    Published: Fraser & Jenkinson, Melbourne
  7. Report ot the National Council of Women of New South Wales of an Informal Conference with Mrs May Wright Sewell, President of the International Council of Women
    Vida Goldstein
    [1902]
    Published: Norman Bros, Melbourne
  8. The Goldstein Story
    Henderson, Leslie M. (Leslie Moira)
    [1973]
    Published: Stockland Press, Melbourne
  9. Double Time: Women in Victoria - 150 Years
    Lake, Marilyn and Kelly, Farley
    [1985]
    Published: Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood (Vic.)
  10. That dangerous and persuasive woman : Vida Goldstein
    Bomford, Janette M.
    [1993]
    Published: Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Vic.
  11. The Changemakers : Ten Significant Australian Women
    Suzane Fabian and Morag Loh
    [1983]
    Published: Jacaranda Press, Milton, Qld.
  12. Australian Suffragettes
    Australian Broadcasting Corporation
    [1998]
    Published: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
  13. Goldstein, Vida (1869-1949)
    The National Library of Australia's Federation Gateway
    Published: National Library of Australia
  14. The Life and work of Miss Vida Goldstein
    Women's Political Association
    [ca. 1913]
    Published: Australasian Authors' Agency, Melbourne
  15. Vida Goldstein and the struggle for women's rights
    [c1998]
    Published: National Archives of Australia, Canberra
  16. 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology
    Radi, Heather
    [1988]
    Published: Women's Redress Press, Sydney
  17. A History of the Lyceum Club Melbourne
    Gillison, Joan M
    [1975]
    Published: The Lyceum Club, Melbourne
  18. 1891 Women's Suffrage Petition
    Parliament of Victoria
    Published: Parliament of Victoria
  19. Radical Melbourne : a secret history
    Sparrow, Jeff and Sparrow, Jill
    [2001]
    Published: the vulgar press, Carlton North, Vic.
  20. Woman suffrage in Australia : a gift or a struggle?
    Oldfield, Audrey
    [1992]
    Published: Cambridge University Press, Melbourne
  21. Nation builders : great lives and stories from St Kilda General Cemetery
    Eidelson, Meyer
    [2001]
    Published: Friends of St Kilda Cemetery Inc., St Kilda, Vic.
  22. Votes for women : the Australian story
    Lees, Kirsten.
    [1995]
    Published: Allen & Unwin, St. Leonards, N.S.W.
  23. A white woman's suffrage
    Grimshaw, Patricia
    [1996]
    Published: Hale and Iremonger, Sydney
  24. Modernity and mother-heartedness : spirituality and religious meaning in Australian women's suffrage and citizenship movements, 1890s-1920s
    Smart, Judith
    [2000]
    Published: Routledge, London
  25. Australian Dictionary of Biography Online
    Australian National University
    [2006]
  26. List of Electoral Divisions Named After Women
    Australian Electoral Commission
  27. Press cuttings book presented to Edith How Martyn.
    [1943]
    Press cuttings book "presented to Edith How Martyn for Women's Service Library, London, by Vida Goldstein, Melbourne Australia 1943."
    State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection
  28. Collection of newspaper cuttings relating to her (Vida Goldstein's) candidature for the Federal Senate in 1903
    [Press cuttings : 1903]
    88 pages
    National Gallery of Australia Research Library
    N+ 324.3 GOL
  29. Letters, diaries and lectures
    [1902 - 1919]
    State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection
  30. Biographical cuttings on Vida Goldstein
    [Press cuttings ]
    National Library of Australia Newspaper Microcopy Reading Room
    BIOG
  31. Papers of Ruby Rich
    [1943 - 1948]
    Miscellaneous newspaper cuttings, notes etc dealing with women's achievements and rights, music scores, photographs, pamphlets, songsheets; minutes of the Equal Pay Conference, 1958; items about Vida Goldstein, British women police, Eleanor Mary Hinder, Henrietta Szold, and general women's matters; postage stamps and a curriculum vitae.
    0.1 m
    National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection
    MS 2260
  32. Letter from Corbett Ashley to a Mr White re Vida Goldstein
    [1944 - 1968]
    Notes on pottery in Canberra, letter from Corbett Ashley to a Mr White re Vida Goldstein, and one folder of material containing: Canberra Pre-school Society- A record 1943-1960; Canberra Pre-school Society- Talk 1967 Aug. 8 by Loma Rudduck; German report by Loma Rudduck; photograph; publications; notes on the opening of Canberra Nursery School, 1944; and "Now I'm a brother" (Original manuscript, 12 p.).
    0.01 m, 2 folders
    National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection
    MS 907
  33. Letters : England, to Henry Hyde Champion and Elsie Belle Champion, Melbourne.
    [Correspondence : 1908 - 1949]
    Created by Shaw, George Bernard, 1856-1950. Henry Hyde Champion, and later his wife, Elsie Belle Champion, were Shaw's Australian theatrical agents. The letters discuss business matters, Shaw's work, old comrades, Vida Goldstein and Walter Murdoch.
    0.02 m
    State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection
  34. Collections held by the Fawcett Library relating to Australia and New Zealand.
    [1858 - 1967]
    Contains records of: the United British Women's Emigration Association, 1888-1901 ; the British Women's Emigration Association, 1901-19 : Colonial Intelligence League, 1910-19 ; and the Women's Migration and Overseas Appointment Society, 1919-67. Also contains personal papers of: Mary Billinghurst, 1891 ; Teresa Billington-Greig, 1942-54 ; Elsie Bowerman, 1948 ; Josephine Butler, 1885-1902 ; Kathleen Courtney, 1937-54 ; Vida Goldstein, 1902-19 ; Edith How-Martyn, 1872-1951 ; Norman Mackenzie, 1945-60 ; Helen Nutting, 1947-59 ; Agnes Maude Royden, 1928-53 ; Patricia Shaw, 1948 and Louisa Twining, 1858-61. Also includes an autograph collection of correspondence relating to suffrage, 1906-56 ; general women's movement, 1862-1949 ; emancipation, 1888-1951 ; general/personal, 1862-1972 and industry, 1957-58.
    24 microfilm rolls
    National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection
    Mfm M2291-2314
  35. Papers of various Australian women
    Manuscript drafts of biographical papers on the following: Anderson, Mary (11 p.); Brennan, Jennie (7 p.); Couchman, Dame Elizabeth May Ramsay (13 p.); Deakin's daughters, Brookes and Ivy Deakin; Rivett, Stella (Deakin) Lady; White, Vera (Deakin) Lady (14 p.); Goldstein, Vida (21 p.); Holman, May (16 p.); James, Britomarte (23 p.); Lyons, Dame Enid (17 p.); Rich, Ruby (19 p.); Rischbieth, Bessie Mabel (36 p.); Sweet, Georgina (22 p.); Waterworth, Edith (16 p.); Woinarski, Gertrude Zichy- (10 p.); Young, Jeanne (10 p.).
    267 pages
    National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection
    MS 842
  36. Vida Goldstein 1869-1949.
    [1966]
    Biographical notes by her niece. Two copies both signed, one dated 19 Jan. 1966, the other 27 Jan. 1966.
    0.01 m
    National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection
    MS 1637
  37. Women's Suffrage Petition (Monster Petition)
    [1891]
    Scroll of nearly 30,000 signatures of Victorian women in favour of female suffrage, gathered in 1891.
    260 m, 1 Scroll
    Public Record Office Victoria
    VPRS 3253/P0, Unit 851
  38. Papers of Leslie Moira Henderson
    [1880 - 1961]
    Copies of photographs, ca. 1880-ca. 1945 of Vida Goldstein 1949-1961, including an obituary and a personal impression by L. M. Henderson and a transcript of a radio talk by Margaret Clarke.
    0.01 m
    National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection
    MS 1444
  39. Vida Goldstein Correspondence
    Created by Industrial Workers of the World. The correspondence consists of reports from unions and other labor organisations to J. F. Neill, A. J. Edwards, H. J. Hawkins, and George Waite of the I.W.W. Club, Sydney. There is also some general non-I.W.W. correspondence, including letters to/from Frank Anstey, F. G. Tudor, Tom Mann, W. M. Hughes, Robert Hogg, Henry Dobson, Tom Baker, Harry Cook, Josiah Thomas, J. Sinclair, J. W. Bilson, J. C. Watson, W. G. Higgs, Ben Willett, Charles M. Barlow, Tom Tunnecliffe, F. J. Riley, John Barnes, H. Scott Bennett, J. R. Wilson, and E. J. Holloway. A further set of correspondence written to R. S. Ross and the Victorian Socialist Party, includes letters from C. J. Cough, Maurice Blackburn, W. Maloney, James Mathews, John Mullan, Frank Brennan, "Jack" Curtin, Charles Gray, Cecilia John, Vida Goldstein, and Albert Blakey. The organisations represented in the correspondence include the Sydney Labor Council, the Russian Association, Qld., the Trades Hall Council, Melb., the Women's Political Association of Victoria, the Australian Peace Alliance, the Socialist Federation of Australia, the International Socialist Club, and several anti-conscription groups.
    National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection
    MS 3516
  40. Vida Goldstein correspondence
    [1908]
    I. Copy of letter to Secretary of State for the Colonies asking permission to resign as Gov. Gen., January 1908. Also draft MS document (in handwriting of H.H. Share, Private Secretary) requesting Royal permission to resign. II. Farewell letters, addresses, etc. from individuals and institutions, June-September 1908. Correspondents include Lord Elgin, Senator H. de Largie, Sir John Quick, Vida Goldstein (Women's Political Association of Australia), Britomarte James (Writers' Club) and Ambrose Pratt. Also addresses from various towns. III. Programmes of entertainments, menus, etc. July 1908. Also newscuttings, July 1908, re departure of Lord and Lady Northcote.
    0.01 m
    National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection
    MS 590
  41. Scheme of proposed Women's Rural Industries Co.
    Conveners: Lily E. Dickens, Vida Goldstein, Ina Higgins, Cecilia John, Bertha Merfield Mabel Singleton
    1 broadside
    National Library of Australia, Reading Room
    UApam 816
  42. Industrial Workers of the World Correspondence [manuscript]
    [1897 - 1919]
    The I.W.W. was a socialist industrial group formed in Chicago in 1905 which aimed to unite all workers into one industrial union, abolishing craft lines, wages and the employer. The correspondence consists of reports from unions and other labor organisations to J. F. Neill, A. J. Edwards, H. J. Hawkins, and George Waite of the I.W.W. Club, Sydney. There is also some general non-I.W.W. correspondence, including letters to/from Frank Anstey, F. G. Tudor, Tom Mann, W. M. Hughes, Robert Hogg, Henry Dobson, Tom Baker, Harry Cook, Josiah Thomas, J. Sinclair, J. W. Bilson, J. C. Watson, W. G. Higgs, Ben Willett, Charles M. Barlow, Tom Tunnecliffe, F. J. Riley, John Barnes, H. Scott Bennett, J. R. Wilson, and E. J. Holloway. A further set of correspondence written to R. S. Ross and the Victorian Socialist Party, includes letters from C. J. Cough, Maurice Blackburn, W. Maloney, James Mathews, John Mullan, Frank Brennan, "Jack" Curtin, Charles Gray, Cecilia John, Vida Goldstein, and Albert Blakey. The organisations represented in the correspondence include the Sydney Labor Council, the Russian Association, Qld., the Trades Hall Council, Melb., the Women's Political Association of Victoria, the Australian Peace Alliance, the Socialist Federation of Australia, the International Socialist Club, and several anti-conscription groups
    National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection
    MS 3516
  43. Ruby Rich Papers
    [1943 - 1948]
    Miscellaneous newspaper cuttings, notes etc dealing with women's achievements and rights, music scores, photographs, pamphlets, songsheets; minutes of the Equal Pay Conference, 1958; items about Vida Goldstein, British women police, Eleanor Mary Hinder, Henrietta Szold, and general women's matters; postage stamps and a curriculum vitae.
    0.09 m
    National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection
    NLA MS 2260
  44. The Goldstein chronicle
    [c. 1950 - c. 1973]
    History of the Goldstein family, comprising twelve chapters: A very rising settlement; The young man goes west; The Hawkins family; J. R. Y. Goldstein; The Leongatha Labour Colony; Vida Goldstein and the women's suffrage movement; Vida's electoral campaigns and social work; H. H. Champion's "nnconventional autobiography"; H. H. Champion in Australia: the maritime strike; H. H. Champion: adventures in journalism; H. H. Champion and Bernard Shaw; Elsie Champion and the Book Lovers' Library. Created by Leslie M. Henderson.
    0.01 m, 168 pages
    State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection

Resources By Vida Goldstein (9)

  1. To America and back : January-June 1902 : a lecture by Vida Goldstein / prepared for publication by Jill Roe
    Goldstein, Vida, 1869-1949
    [Book : 2002]
  2. Presented to Edith How Martyn for Women's Service Library London / [compiled] by Vida Goldstein
    [Book : 1943]
  3. Press cuttings book presented to Edith How Martyn
    Goldstein, Vida, 1869-1949
    [Unpublished : 1943]
  4. Presentation inscriptions
    Goldstein, Vida, 1869-1949
    [Unpublished : 1902]
  5. Woman suffrage in Australia
    Goldstein, Vida, 1869-1949
    [Book : 1908-2008]
  6. [Collection of newspaper cuttings relating to her condidature for the Federal Senate in 1903]
    Goldstein, Vida, 1869-1949
    [Book ]
  7. Report to the National Council of Women of New South Wales of an informal conference with Mrs May Wright Sewall, President of the International Council of Women / by Vida Goldstein
    Goldstein, Vida, 1869-1949
    [Book : 1902]
  8. Recommendations in favor of voluntary methods of dealing with venereal diseases : as agreed upon by the Women's Political Association and the Women's Convention, held at ... Latrobe Street ... May ... June ... July ... 1916
    Goldstein, Vida, 1869-1949
    [Book : 1916]
  9. Report to the National Council of Women of New South Wales of an informal conference with Mrs. May Wright, President of the International Council for Women / by Miss Vida Goldstein
    Goldstein, Vida, 1869-1949
    [Book : 1895-1902]

Resources About Vida Goldstein (32)

  1. To America and back : January-June 1902 : a lecture by Vida Goldstein / prepared for publication by Jill Roe
    Goldstein, Vida, 1869-1949
    [Book : 2002]
  2. That dangerous and persuasive woman : Vida Goldstein / Janette M. Bomford
    Bomford, Janette M. (Janette Margaret), 1953-
    [Book : 1993]
  3. Vida Goldstein 1869-1949 [researched and written by Sue Fabian and Morag Loh]
    Fabian, Sue, 1948-
    [Photograph : 1984-1986]
  4. [Biographical cuttings on Vida Goldstein]
    [Published : 1900-1990]
  5. Silk & calico : class, gender & the vote / Betty Searle
    Searle, Betty
    [Book, Audio book : 1988]
  6. Vida Goldstein 1869-1949
    Henderson, Leslie M
    [Unpublished : 1966]
  7. Presented to Edith How Martyn for Women's Service Library London / [compiled] by Vida Goldstein
    [Book : 1943]
  8. The changemakers : ten significant Australian women / Suzane Fabian and Morag Loh
    Fabian, Sue, 1948-
    [Book : 1983]
  9. Presentation inscriptions
    Goldstein, Vida, 1869-1949
    [Unpublished : 1902]
  10. Press cuttings book presented to Edith How Martyn
    Goldstein, Vida, 1869-1949
    [Unpublished : 1943]

More...

Comments for this person

Add a comment



Australian Newspapers (1803-1954)

No results

Minimise
  1. Website: A campaign for a fairer community - Kristin Stegley, independent
    www.kristinstegley.org
    Matching pages:
    • Vida Goldstein (1869-1949) - 12/11/2001
    • ... Vida Goldstein (1869-1949) Letter to Goldstein - plus some background on Kristin Issues...
  2. Website: National Library of Australia staff papers
    www.nla.gov.au
    Matching pages:
  3. Website: Moreland City Council
    www.moreland.vic.gov.au
    Matching pages:

Maps

No results

Minimise
  1. Henry, Alice. 1857-1943
    journalist; women's activist; women's suffragist
    ... Goldstein, Vida (1869 - 1949) ...
  2. Scott, Rose. 1847-1925
    feminist; law reformer; women's activist; women's suffragist
    ... Goldstein, Vida Jane Mary (1869 - 1949) ...
  3. Franklin, Miles. 1879-1954
    feminist; literary scholar; novelist
    ... Goldstein, Vida Jane Mary (1869 - 1949) ...