Eleanor Acland

Eleanor Margaret Acland, née Cropper (1878 – 12 December 1933) was a British Liberal Party politician, suffragist, and novelist.

[4] On 31 August 1905 she married Francis Dyke Acland, the son of a prominent Liberal Party baronet.

She wrote In the Straits of Hope (1904) under the pseudonym of Margaret Burneside, a novel about artists in Chelsea, and Dark Side Out (1921), a multi-generational family saga.

She also wrote two memoirs, Ellen Acland: The Story of a Joyful Life (1925), about her daughter, and Goodbye for the Present, published posthumously in 1935.

She campaigned throughout England for women's suffrage, wrote about it in national newspapers and corresponded with politicians and activists on the subject including Christabel Pankhurst and Emmeline Pethick Lawrence.

[4] In 1912 she organised local Women's Liberal Associations to pass resolutions in support of the 1912 Conciliation Bill.

Francis Acland