Anne Isabella Robertson

Anne Isabella Robertson
Born
Anne Isabella Robertson

c1830
Died21 April 1910
Dublin

Anne Isabella Robertson (c1830 โ€“ 21 April 1910) was a writer and leading suffragist in Ireland.

Life

Born Anne Isabella Robertson in about 1830 to Major Archibald Robertson. Her father was president of the African Institute, established in Paris for the suppression of slavery.[1] She was one of the women who presented a petition on Women's suffrage in 1868 along with her sister. Robertson led the Irish campaign for the next few years. She spoke at Manchester and Birmingham meetings. She was the President of the Irish National Society for Women's Suffrage in 1871 as well as secretary of the Dublin Branch of the Women's suffrage society. Before that she had written novels on politics and religious life in Ireland as well as discussing women's employment. Robertson was active in Lyrdia Beckers Married Women's Property campagn. She spoke eloquently on women's suffrage and she travelled to Edinburgh in 1873 to meet Eliza Wigham and the Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage.[1] She was well regarded in this field and the John Stuart Mill's London Suffrage Society ordered 1,000 copies of her essay "Women's Needs to be Represented" to be distributed.[1] Robertson is considered one of Ireland's first suffragists. She lived with her sister and mother in Sandymount, Dublin. Both predeceased her.[2][3][4][5][1][6][7][8][9][10][11]

Writings

  • Myself and My Relatives (1863)
  • "A Tipperary Shot" (1864)
  • Yaxley and Its Neighborhood (1865)
  • The Story of Nelly Dillon (1866)[12]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Murray, J.H.; Stark, M. (2016). The Englishwoman's Review of Social and Industrial Questions: 1870. Routledge Library Editions: The Englishwoman's Review of Social and Industrial Questions. Taylor & Francis. p. 93. ISBN 978-1-315-41167-5. Retrieved 2019-09-12.
  2. ^ Lewis, J. (2013). Before the Vote was Won. Women's Source Library. Taylor & Francis. p. 141. ISBN 978-1-136-40961-5. Retrieved 2019-09-12.
  3. ^ Hall, C.; McClelland, K.; Rendall, J. (2000). Defining the Victorian Nation: Class, Race, Gender and the British Reform Act of 1867. Cambridge University Press. p. 36. ISBN 978-0-521-57653-6. Retrieved 2019-09-12.
  4. ^ Hall, D.E.; Helmich, J. (1996). Fixing Patriarchy: Feminism and Mid-Victorian Male Novelists. NYU Press. p. 196. ISBN 978-0-8147-3537-4. Retrieved 2019-09-12.
  5. ^ Lewis, Jane (2010-10-18). "Speech on the women's disabilities removal bill 26 April 1876 - Before the Vote was Won: Arguments For and Against Women's Suffrage 1864โ€“1896 - History of Feminism". History of Feminism. Retrieved 2019-09-12.
  6. ^ Burton, A.M. (1994). Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915. Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915. University of North Carolina Press. p. 90. ISBN 978-0-8078-4471-7. Retrieved 2019-09-12.
  7. ^ "5.2.3 The campaign begins". Discovering Women in Irish History. 1999-12-24. Retrieved 2019-09-12.
  8. ^ "Irish Genealogy - Death" (PDF). civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie.
  9. ^ "Sister and address -National Archives: Census of Ireland 1911". www.census.nationalarchives.ie.
  10. ^ "Irish Society for Women's Suffrage" (PDF). The Waterford Mail. 9 November 1871.
  11. ^ Crawford, E. (2013). The Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain and Ireland: A Regional Survey. Women's and Gender History. Taylor & Francis. p. 253. ISBN 978-1-136-01062-0. Retrieved 2019-09-13.
  12. ^ Anne I. Robertson (1866). The Story of Nelly Dillon. T. Cautley Newby.

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