Dale Spender was an Australian feminist scholar, teacher, writer and consultant.
16 Facts About Dale Spender
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In 1983, Dale Spender was co-founder of and editorial advisor to Pandora Press, the first of the feminist imprints devoted solely to non-fiction, committed, according to The New York Times, to showing that "women were the mothers of the novel and that any other version of its origin is but a myth of male creation".
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Dale Spender was the series editor of Penguin's Australian Women's Library from 1987.
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Dale Spender was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, on 22 September 1943.
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Dale Spender was a niece of the politician Percy Spender and crime writer Jean Spender.
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Dale Spender attended the Burwood Girls High School in Sydney and she was a Kodak girl.
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Dale Spender started lecturing at James Cook University in 1974, before going to live in London, where she studied for a PhD at the University of London and published her research as the book Man Made Language in 1980.
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Dale Spender published Writing a New World: Two Centuries of Australian Women Writers in 1988, the year when she returned to Australia, living in Brisbane, Queensland.
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In 1991, Dale Spender published a literary spoof, The Diary of Elizabeth Pepys.
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Dale Spender was a co-originator of the database WIKED and founding editor of Pergamon's Athene Series and of Pandora Press, commissioning editor of the Penguin Australian Women's Library, and associate editor of the Great Women Series.
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Dale Spender was particularly concerned with intellectual property and the effects of new technologies: in her terms, the prospects for "new wealth" and "new learning".
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Dale Spender was involved with the Second Chance Programme, which tackles homelessness among women in Australia.
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In 2001 Dale Spender was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by QUT for her "important contribution to scholarship and to the community".
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Dale Spender had been in a relationship with Professor Ted Brown for close to five decades.
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Dale Spender consistently dressed in purple clothes, a choice she initially made for its symbolic reference to the suffragettes.
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Dale Spender lived in Brisbane, Australia, where she died on 21 November 2023, at the age of 80.