Edith Marvin

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Edith Marvin
Born29 July 1872
Tetsworth, England
Died20 May 1958 (1958-05-21) (aged 85)
Berkhamsted, England
NationalityBritish
EducationSomerville College, Oxford
OccupationInspector of schools

Edith Mary Marvin, born Edith Mary Deverell (29 July 1872 – 20 May 1958) was a British inspector of schools.

Life

Marvin was born in Attington near

Hilda Oakeley.[1] Marvin left Somerville in 1895 and took an MA from Trinity College Dublin.[2]

Arthur Lyon Bowley, who was later known for his British economic statistics, began this study in the 1890s with work on trade and on wages and income. His 1900 publication Wages in the United Kingdom in the Nineteenth Century was created using the unpaid assistance of Melvin when she was a researcher at the London School of Economics from 1896 to 1898. She then returned to her alma mater to still work as a researcher.[1]

In 1900 she began her career in school inspection as a "woman sub-inspector" employed by the Board of Education. She was looking at girls schools and infant schools and she was unimpressed by the conditions she found firstly in Liverpool and then later in London.

National Union of Women Workers. She argued that teachers needed to trained in physiology. She argued that the health of children could also her improved by appointing more female school inspectors and female school managers.[1]
Marvin belonged to the committee which presented the Women Graduate Suffrage Petition to the Liberal Prime Minister Henry Campbell-Bannerman in May 1906.[2]

Marvin died in Berkhamsted in 1958.[1]

Private life

She married Francis Sydney Marvin at Tetsworth parish church on 25 June 1904. He was a leading member of the English Positivists. Her new husband proposed a Positivist wedding ceremony conducted by Frederic Harrison but she objected when she realised that it included a poor attitude to gender equality. Their three sons included John Deverell Marvin who became a financial journalist.[1]

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/48586. Retrieved 29 October 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  2. ^ a b c "Somerville and Women's Suffrage – 1918–2018" (PDF). Somerville College, Oxford. 23 April 2018. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
  3. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/93709. Retrieved 29 October 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  4. ISBN 978-1-317-94932-9
    .
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