Edith Watson (police officer)

Edith Mary Watson (née Wall; 6 November 1888 – 25 March 1966) was a British suffragist, police officer and campaigner against Female Genital Mutilation in the 1930s.

She continued the league's non-violent methods by writing for the left-wing Daily Herald under the title of Sketches in Green, Gold and White.

She was employed as the Court correspondent for The Vote and she recorded the crimes or rape, sexual assault and incest ironically under the title of "The Protected Sex".

[1] Boyle and Watson went to Marlborough Street Police Court in 1914 and made a more militant protest.

The archives of Edith Mary Watson can be found at the Library of the London School of Economics (ref 7EMW).