Elizabeth Webb Nicholls (21 February 1850 – 3 August 1943)

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls worked campaigns in SA for restriction of the sale of alcohol and the movement to extend political rights to women. She was a leader of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, the most prominent organisation collecting signatures for the petition granting women the right to vote in SA in 1894. Elizabeth was the first woman appointed to the Board of the Adelaide Hospital and was a justice of the Peace, one of the first women in the role.

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Video: Watch Elizabeth Come Back to Life

As part of the 2018 Adelaide Fringe, The Muriel Matters Society helped initiate the very successful ‘A Soapbox for Democracy’. Produced by Joanne Hartstone (who also doubled as the person who played Elizabeth Webb Nicholls in the clip!) in association with the Centre of Democracy.

Filming by Peter Tee.