Young, Jeanne Forster (1876-1955)

Also known as
Young, Jeanne F. (Jeanne Forster) (1876-1955)
Field of activity
Author, Welfare worker, Journalist and Political activist
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http://nla.gov.au/anbd.aut-an36559423
NLA Persistent Identifier
http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-636636

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A novelist, biographer and political candidate, Jeanne Forster Young passionately advocated proportional representation for women in parliament. She became president of the Democratic Women's Association of South Australia.

Jeanne Young was born Sarah Jane Forster, one of eight children of John Goodman and Sarah Jane Forster. She became a freelance journalist with the Register and joined Catherine Helen Spence in 1896 in campaigning for proportional representation in parliament. On 23 January 1889, she married the Foreign Editor of the South Australian Advertiser, Alfred Howard Young. They were to have three sons and one daughter.

Jeanne Young was the first and only woman on the Board of Governors of the South Australian Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery (1916-1928). She was appointed to the Magistracy in 1917 and stood for parliament on a non-party ticket in 1918. During the First World War, Young was a member of the Central Red Cross and later became an administrator of the South Australian Soldiers' Fund. She stood for the Senate in 1937 and was elected president of the Democratic Women's Association of South Australia.

After the death of Catherine Helen Spence in 1910, Young completed Spence's autobiography. She founded the C H Spence Scholarship for Women, and in 1937 wrote Catherine Helen Spence: a study and an appreciation.

Young produced several pamphlets on proportional representation, and wrote variously under the pen names of Jeanne F. Young, Sarah Jane Forster and Goodman Forster. On 9 June 1938, Jeanne Young was appointed to The Order of the British Empire - Officer (Civil) (OBE) for her services to social welfare. She died at Rose Park, South Australia in 1955.

In 1994, as part of celebrations for the South Australian Women's Suffrage Centenary, the centenary committee published Jeanne Forster Young's novel, Jenifer.

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Australian Women's Register

  1. Proportional representation
    Young, Jeanne F
    [[1911]]
  2. Effective voting; how to vote, how to count votes! : diagrams showing inequalities and injustice of single electorates and block votes
    Young, Jeanne F
    [1911]
    Published: W.K. Thomas, Ptrs.
  3. Effective voting : an explanation of Hare's single transferable vote
    Young, Jeanne F
    [[1917]]
  4. The Senate - as it is and as it should be : a plea for proportional representation
    Young, Jeanne F
    [1917]
    Published: W.K. Thomas, Ptrs.
  5. Preferential voting in single electorates not a reform
    Young, Jeanne F
    [[1920]]
    Published: Effective Voting (P.R.) League of S.A.
  6. Proportional representation : what it means and how it would work
    Young, Jeanne F
    [1931]
    Published: Publishers Ltd., Ptrs
  7. Proportional representation in a nutshell
    Young, Jeanne F
    [[1945]]
    Published: P.R. League
  8. Jenifer : a novel / by Goodman Forster (Jeanne Forster Young 1876-1955)
    Young, Jeanne Forster
    [[1994]]
    Published: Women's Suffrage Centenary
  9. Catherine Helen Spence : a study and an appreciation
    Young, Jeanne F
    [1937]
    Published: Lothian
  10. An autobiography
    Spence, Catherine Helen [edited and introduced by Jeanne F. Young]
    [1975]
    Published: Libraries Board of South Australia
  11. The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850
    Australian Women's Archives Project
    [2008]
    Published: Australian Women's Archives Project
    Series: http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html
  12. Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989
    Australian Women's Archives Project
    [2003]
    Published: Australian Women's Archives Project
    Series: http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html
  13. Who's who in Australia 1944
    Alexander, Joseph A
    [1944]
    Published: The Herald and Weekly Times
  14. State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana: The Grand Old Woman of Australia (literary manuscript) (c. 1936)
    Manuscript of J.F. Young's biography of Catherine Helen Spence 'The Grand Old Woman of Australia'.
    D 6972(Lit Ms)
  15. State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana: Jenifer (literary manuscript)
    Manuscript of a novel written in the 1920s under the nom-de-plume Goodman Forster.
    D 7208(Lit Ms)

Resources by Jeanne Forster Young (4)

  1. An autobiography / [by] Catherine Helen Spence ; [edited and introduced by Jeanne F. Young]
    Spence, Catherine Helen, 1825-1910
    [ Book, Conference Proceedings : 1910-2004 ]
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  2. An autobiography / [by] Catherine Helen Spence ; [edited and introduced by Jeanne F. Young]
    Spence, Catherine Helen, 1825-1910
    [ Book, Conference Proceedings : 1910-2004 ]
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    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 12.205)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 12.205)

  3. Catherine Helen Spence : a study and an appreciation / by Jeanne F. Young
    Young, Jeanne F. (Jeanne Forster), 1876-1955
    [ Book : 1937 ]
    At 25 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 12.095)

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  4. Jenifer (literary manuscript)
    Young, Jeanne Forster, 1876-1955
    [ Unpublished : 1920 ]
    At State Library S Aust
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 7.193)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 7.193)

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  2. Proportional representation / by Jeanne F. Young
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  3. Effective voting / by Jeanne F. Young
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  4. Proportional representation in a nutshell / by Jeanne F. Young
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  2. Women Who Max Stand for Parliament
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  3. PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION
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