Emma Cons
Standard Name: Cons, Emma
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1885
Regular classes began at Morley College
in London, a few years after Emma Cons
leased the Old Vic Theatre
in Waterloo Road, as a venue not just for clean variety shows and concerts but...
17 January 1889
Supported by the Society for Promoting Women as County Councillors
, Margaret, Lady Sandhurst
, and Jane Cobden
became the first women to be elected to the newly formed London County Council
.
January 1889
Emma Cons
became the first woman to be nominated and to serve as alderman (one step up from a councillor) on the new London County Council
, on the basis of her housing activism and...
1912
Lilian Baylis
began her tenure as manager of the Old Vic
Theatre in London, which she converted from a music hall into a respected Shakespearian theatre.
13 August 1912
Octavia Hill
, housing advocate and one-time friend of John Ruskin
, died of cancer in her home at 190 Marylebone Road, London.
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