Jane Maria Strachey
Jane Maria Strachey | |
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Born | Jane Maria Grant 13 March 1840 Sea off the Cape of Good Hope |
Died | 14 December 1928 | (aged 88)
Spouse | Sir Richard Strachey (1859–1908; his death) |
Children | 13, including Lytton, James, Dorothea, Pernel, and Oliver |
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Jane Maria Strachey, Lady Strachey (13 March 1840 – 14 December 1928) was an English
Early life
Lady Strachey was born on the ship Earl of Hadwick off the coast of
Professional life
Her husband introduced her to the works of John Stuart Mill. They moved to Edinburgh in 1866–1867 and Lady Strachey began gathering signatures for petitioning the Parliament for women's right to vote. Her first article on women's suffrage was published in The Attempt, which was published by the Edinburgh Ladies Debating Society. She became a member of the Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage in 1868 but moved to India with her husband who was posted in the British Colonial administration again.[1]
The couple returned to London in 1879 and she restarted her suffrage work. She was an active supporter of the New Hospital for Women, an initiative to provide poor women with medical help from qualified female practitioners. She was also a financial supporter of Girton College, Cambridge. She was an organiser of the Women's Local Government Society and in 1909 became the chair of its London branch. Her work achieved fruition when a WLGS-sponsored parliamentary Bill was mentioned in the King's Speech in 1907.[1][3]
Lady Strachey also published two children's books, in 1887 and 1893. She also wrote Poets on Poets in 1894, besides working on an English translation of Alexander Herzen's De l'autre rive. An account of her and her family is provided in Betty Askwith's Two Victorian Families.[4][5]
In 1907, Lady Strachey was elected to the Executive committee of the
References
- ^ a b c d e "Papers of Jane Maria Strachey". Jisc. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
- ^ a b c "Dora Carrington". Scottish National Gallery. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
- Rodopi. Archivedfrom the original on 1 October 2007. Retrieved 18 September 2008.
- ^ "HERZEN (ALEXANDER)". Bonhams. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
- ^ "Lady Strachey". Tate. Archived from the original on 30 November 2015. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
- ^ Naomi Black Virginia Woolf as Feminist, p. 204, at Google Books
Further reading
- Rogal, Samuel J. Jane Marie Grant- Strachey (1840–1928) and Her Eminent Children: A Study of Influence of a Mother on Her Sons. Edwin Mellen Press. ISBN 978-1-4955-0312-2.