Georgiana Chapman

Her father held a position in the English Civil Service in India, and Georgiana spent her early years in Bengal.

By 1884, Bayley was living with her widowed mother in Ascot when she took up a part-time post as secretary to the council of Westfield College in Hampstead.

[1][2] The books introduction precedes profiles of the social reformer Pandita Ramabai, physician Dr. Anandi Gopal Joshi, The Marahani of Kuch Behar, the poet Toru Dutt and the lawyer Cornelia Sorabji.

[3] On their return to England, Lady Chapman took up a post as a member of the Westfield College council which she held for the rest of her life.

She co-founded a branch of the Women's Citizens' Association and was co-opted onto the education committee of Surrey County Council.