Harriet McIlquham

[2][3] She co-founded the Women's Emancipation Union in 1892, and served on that organisation's council.

She carried this experience into her further activism, taking particular interest in married women's political rights.

[1] McIlquham published pamphlets based on her lectures, among them "The Enfranchisement of Women: An Ancient Right, A Modern Need" in 1892.

[8] She also wrote a series of essays on the history of feminism for the Westminster Review.

She died in 1910, aged 72 years, just hours after her paper on poet Robert Williams Buchanan was read at the Cheltenham Ethical Society.