Henrietta Augusta Dugdale: Australian suffragist honoured by Google

Pioneering feminist founded country's first female suffragist society and called for equal rights for women

Henrietta Augusta Dugdale, a founder of the first female suffragist society in Australia, has been honoured by Google with a doodle on the search engine's homepage.

On 13 April 1869, Dugdale became the first Australian woman to publicly call for women's equality with a letter published in Melbourne's Argus newspaper. In the letter she described a bill to help women secure rights to property as a "poor and partial remedy for a great and crying evil" and a "piece of the grossest injustice".