Emelia Russell Gurney

[7][8] In 1865 she travelled with her husband to Jamaica, a commissioner investigating the handling of the Morant Bay rebellion; and wrote of conditions there, in the form of a journal addressed to her mother.

[9] In December 1867 Gurney was one of the initial members of Emily Davies's executive committee, that raised funds for Girton College.

[10] With Maria Georgina Grey and Emily Shirreff she founded The Girls' Public Day School Company.

[15] When Hill in 1898 was formally presented with a portrait, she made a speech of thanks in which she mentioned particular supporters who were dead: Emelia Gurney with Sydney John Cockerell, F. D. Maurice, Jane Senior and William Shaen.

[18] The Gurneys bought works by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Emelia was a supporter of Emily Ford.

[21][23] Staying with Lady Welby in 1883, she met Joseph Henry Shorthouse and his wife Sarah, who became lifelong friends.

[25] The Gurneys hosted at their house meetings of the Ladies' Sanitary Association, a health organisation founded in 1857 by Mathias Roth.

[29] Emelia organised a series of lectures given by the writer and theologian George MacDonald, in 1858, and the first of these was in the Gurneys' home.