Wilhelmina Hay Abbott

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Wilhelmina "Elizabeth" Abbott
Born
Wilhelmina Hay Lamond

(1884-05-22)22 May 1884
Dundee, Scotland
Died17 October 1957(1957-10-17) (aged 73)
Known forSuffragist, editor and feminist lecturer
SpouseGeorge Frederick Abbott
Children1

Wilhelmina Hay Abbott (née Lamond; 22 May 1884 – 17 October 1957), also known by the name "Elizabeth Abbott," was a Scottish suffragist, editor, and feminist lecturer, and wife of author George Frederick Abbott.

Early life and education

Abbott was born Wilhelmina Hay Lamond in Dundee, Scotland, on 22 May 1884. Her mother was Margaret McIntyre Morrison and her father was Andrew Lamond, a jute manufacturer and commission agent. She had one older sister, Isabel Taylor Lamond.[1][2] The family moved to Tottenham when her father received a job as managing director of Henry A. Lane & Co. She was educated at the City of London School for Girls and in Brussels.[2][3] She trained in London for secretarial and accounting work between 1903 and 1906, but then attended University College London in the summer of 1907, where she pursued a broader course of ethics, modern philosophy, and economics.[2][4] As a young woman she began using the first name "Elizabeth."[1]

Career

In 1909 Elizabeth Lamond started organizing for the Edinburgh

Elsie Inglis.[6][7] McNeill and Inglis became doctors in the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service
.

During World War I, Lamond toured extensively in India, Australia, and New Zealand as a lecturer, for two years, raising money for the Scottish Women's Hospitals.[8] Of her travels, she declared, "I received unbounded hospitality."[9] After the war, she served as an officer of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, and edited its newsletter, Jus Suffragii.[3][10]

Concerned primarily about economic opportunities for women, she joined

Lady Rhondda, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence and others in founding the Open Door Council (later Open Door International) in 1926.[11][12] Abbott chaired the Open Door Council in 1929.[13][14][15] She also chaired the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene for ten years, and was active with the organization for much longer.[16][17]

In her later years, she continued work on women's economic security, as co-author of The Woman Citizen and Social Security (1943), which responded to gender inequalities in the Beveridge Report.[18][19][20]

Personal life

She married travel writer and war correspondent George Frederick Abbott in 1911. They had one son, Jasper A. R. Abbott, born that same year. Abbott died in 1957, age 73.[3]

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 0748617132
  2. ^
    ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8
    . Retrieved 16 December 2022.
  3. ^
    ISBN 184142031X
  4. ISBN 186064502X
  5. ISBN 0080412017
  6. ISBN 1428039449
  7. ^ "The Late Dr. Elsie Inglis," Dominion 11(66)(11 December 1917): 3.
  8. ^ Eva Shaw McLaren, ed. A History of the Scottish Women's Hospitals (Hodder & Stoughton 1919): 368-371.
  9. ^ "Scottish Women's Hospitals; Mrs. Abbott Back from New Zealand," Sydney Morning Herald (15 January 1918): 4.
  10. ^ William L. Malabar, "Romance Nations in Europe Tardy with Woman Suffrage," St. Petersburg Daily Times (15 January 1921): 6.
  11. ^ "Open Door Council," finding aid, Women's Library.
  12. ISBN 0870237055
  13. ISBN 978-0-231-11561-2
  14. ^ Mrs. Lillian Campbell, "With the Women of Today: Launch Equality Drive," The Daily Times [Beaver County, PA] (21 June 1929): 16.
  15. ISBN 9780521459198
  16. ISBN 0748645608
  17. ^ Susan Kingsley Kent, "The Politics of Sexual Difference: World War I and the Demise of British Feminism," Journal of British Studies 27(3)(July 1988): 242.
  18. ^ Elizabeth Abbott and Katherine Bompas, The Woman Citizen and Social Security (London: Bompas 1943).
  19. ^ Elizabeth Wilson, Women and the Welfare State (Routledge 2002).
  20. ISBN 0521892600
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