Maria Rye

In later years she became friendly with hymn-writer Elizabeth Rundle Charles . One of her closest non-literary friends was Mary Merryweather , a Quaker nurse who shared BRP 's interest in promoting standards of...

Partly through her membership of the Kensington Society (a social and political discussion group of about fifty women inaugurated in 1865), JB broadened her acquaintance with significant members of the feminist movement, including Frances Power Cobbe

The association with Parkes led to IC 's lengthy involvement with the mid-Victorian feminist movement, which coalesced through the activities and publications of the Langham Place Group. She is often referred to by historians...

At the meeting the female members of the first Married Women's Property Committee confirmed the text of BLSB 's parliamentary petition and planned for a signature crusade and then for the presentation of the petition...

Her position was held jointly with Jane E. Lewin , while the secretary was Miss Strongitharm . Lewin, along with Maria Rye ...

EF supported the suffrage cause by lecturing on women's suffrage and by reporting on the activities of the National Society for Women's Suffrage in her periodicals. She also publicised the Society for the Promotion of the Employment of Women

In treating the need for other pursuits for spinsters and widows she touches on the topical subjects of religious sisterhoods, female doctors, higher education for women, female philanthropists such as Maria Rye , and feminist...