Dorothy Elliott

She attended the County Girls’ school in Maidenhead before she won a scholarship[1] which enabled her to take modern languages at the University of Reading[2] graduating with a third class degree in 1916.

[1] Edith Morley gave her career advice - she believed that women needed to compete in a wider range of professions[3][4] and she encouraged her to take work in Kynoch's munitions factory at Witton, Birmingham.

She gained experience on the social science course working with Mary Macarthur's National Federation of Women Workers (NFWW).

[1] By 1921 the NFWW had merged into the General and Municipal Workers Union and she was employed in Lancashire until she moved to London.

[1] Whilst at the GMWU she featured on a poster of leading "trade union brothers" who were encouraging workers to save a shilling out of pound earned.

At the end of the war she became the Chairman (sic) of the National Institute of Home Workers, a post she held until 1959.