 On 17 July 1892, she delivered her most famous lecture to a Sunday evening meeting of the Australian Socialist League at Leigh House.In "Master and Man", which she also called 'the gospel of discontent', she described the respective places of employer and workers under colonial capitalism, and how that would change if rights were afforded to workers.The piece has been described as an expression of narrative identity, identifying her subjective sense of self and alienation with the injustice inflicted upon women and the working class.