Edith Sophia Hooper (4 March 1868 – 21 April 1926) was a British suffragette, born in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales. She was matriculated at University of St Andrews, and 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.[1]
- Josephine Butler (1828–1906), an English feminist and social reformer who campaigned for women's suffrage.[2]
- Joseph Skipsey (1832–1903), a Northumbrian poet and a literary coal miner known as 'The Pitman Poet'.[3]
- William Bury Westall (1834–1903), an English novelist born in Accrington, Lancashire who later became a journalist.[4]
- Frank Podmore (1856–1910), an English author, founding member of the Fabian Society and an influential member of the Society for Psychical Research.[5]
References
edit- ^ . 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.
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