Edith Sophia Hooper
Edith Sophia Hooper (4 March 1868 – 21 April 1926) was a British suffragette and biographer.
Biographer
Hooper was born in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales. She was matriculated at University of St Andrews.[1]
Hooper wrote the biographies in DNB12 of the following people:
- George Rundle Prynne (1818–1903), a British Anglo-Catholic cleric known for his Tractarian and ritualist views.[2]
- Josephine Butler (1828–1906), an English feminist and social reformer who campaigned for women's suffrage.[3]
- Joseph Skipsey (1832–1903), a Northumbrian poet and a literary coal miner known as 'The Pitman Poet'.[4]
- William Bury Westall (1834–1903), an English novelist born in Accrington, Lancashire who later became a journalist.[5]
- Frank Podmore (1856–1910), an English author, founding member of the Fabian Society and an influential member of the Society for Psychical Research.[6]
She was also a suffragist, as a member of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies.
References
- ↑ "Biographical Register 1579-1897". arts.st-andrews.ac.uk. Retrieved 28 April 2025.
- ↑ . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 3. 1912. pp. 142–144.
- ↑ . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 1. 1912. pp. 282–283.
- ↑ . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 3. 1912. pp. 320–321.
- ↑ . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 3. 1912. pp. 634–635.
- ↑ . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 3. 1912. pp. 121–122.