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Brettena Smyth
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'''Bridgetena "Brettena" Smyth''' (ca 1840 – 15 February 1898) was an Australian women's rights activist.<ref></ref>
The daughter of John Riordan and Bridgetena Cavanagh, she was born '''Bridgetena Riordan''' in [[Kyneton]]. She was largely self-taught but an avid reader. In 1861, she married William Taylor Smyth, a [[greengrocer]]; the couple had five children. After he died in 1873, she converted the family store into a drapery business and drug store.<ref name=adb/>
Following her husband's death, she became an active member of the [[Women's suffrage in Australia#Women's_suffrage_movement|Victorian Women's Suffrage Society]]. In 1888, she formed the Australian Women's Suffrage Society. An advocate of [[birth control]], she lectured on contraceptive techniques and sold a women's contraceptive device, a rubber [[pessary]] from France, in her shop. She advocated a more balanced partnership between men and women in marriage.<ref name=adb/>
She planned to study medicine at the [[University of Melbourne]] but was thwarted by the financial crisis during the 1890s.<ref name=adb/>
Smyth's publications included:
* ''Love, Courtship and Marriage'' (1892)
* ''The Limitation of Offspring'' (1893)
* ''The Social Evil'' (1894)
* ''What Every Woman Should Know: Diseases Incidental to Women'' (1895)
Smyth died of [[Bright's disease]] in [[Morwell, Victoria|Morwell]].<ref name=adb></ref>
== References ==
[[Category:Year of birth uncertain]]
[[Category:1898 deaths]]
[[Category:Australian suffragists]]
The daughter of John Riordan and Bridgetena Cavanagh, she was born '''Bridgetena Riordan''' in [[Kyneton]]. She was largely self-taught but an avid reader. In 1861, she married William Taylor Smyth, a [[greengrocer]]; the couple had five children. After he died in 1873, she converted the family store into a drapery business and drug store.<ref name=adb/>
Following her husband's death, she became an active member of the [[Women's suffrage in Australia#Women's_suffrage_movement|Victorian Women's Suffrage Society]]. In 1888, she formed the Australian Women's Suffrage Society. An advocate of [[birth control]], she lectured on contraceptive techniques and sold a women's contraceptive device, a rubber [[pessary]] from France, in her shop. She advocated a more balanced partnership between men and women in marriage.<ref name=adb/>
She planned to study medicine at the [[University of Melbourne]] but was thwarted by the financial crisis during the 1890s.<ref name=adb/>
Smyth's publications included:
* ''Love, Courtship and Marriage'' (1892)
* ''The Limitation of Offspring'' (1893)
* ''The Social Evil'' (1894)
* ''What Every Woman Should Know: Diseases Incidental to Women'' (1895)
Smyth died of [[Bright's disease]] in [[Morwell, Victoria|Morwell]].<ref name=adb></ref>
== References ==
[[Category:Year of birth uncertain]]
[[Category:1898 deaths]]
[[Category:Australian suffragists]]
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