Bertha McNamara Bredt, was a Sydney-based Australian socialist agitator, feminist, pamphleteer, bookseller, and mother-in-law of Australian writer Henry Lawson.
Career
Born in Germany, she migrated to Victoria, via England, in 1869. In Castlereagh Street, Sydney, she ran a boarding-house in conjunction with McNamara"s Book and News Depot. Another daughter, Hilda, married prominent Labor Party politician Jack Language.
Politics
After the death of her husband Peter Hermann Bredt, she became a political activist and published Home Talk on Socialism (1891), one of Australia"s first pamphlets on socialism.
