Henrietta Augusta Dugdale was a radical, free-thinking feminist and a leading early advocate of women's rights in the Colony of Victoria (current day Australia). Dugdale was born in London in 1827 and migrated to Victoria with her first husband in 1852. The Colony of Victoria was known for nurturing the first women's suffrage organization in the Australian colonies. This suffrage organization was the initiative of Henrietta Dugdale. In 1884, she took office as inaugural President of the Victorian Women’s Suffrage Society, convinced that the vote would help women achieve equal social, legal and political privileges with men. Henrietta believed that progress and the perfectibility of humankind were achievable through reason and the co-operation and equality of the sexes. Henrietta was also a member of a group of radical, free thinking women who believed in temperance, birth control, and applying the "surgeons’ knife to rapists". In 2013, she was recognized as a critical first-wave Australian feminist. The Dugdale Trust for Women & Girls, is named in honor of her life's work. The Dugdale Trust for Women & Girls is a national harm-prevention institution for which The Victorian Women's Trust operates as trustee.