Helena, comtesse de Noailles

Anna Maria Helena ("Coesvelt" or Coswell),[1] comtesse de Noailles (c. 1826 – 1908) was an English noblewoman who used her wealth and influence to support the reform of women's rights.

[3] She "purchased" a peasant girl, Maria Pasqua Abruzzesi, who sat as an artists' model in Italy and Paris.

[4] Madame de Noailles was a wealthy woman with houses in England, Paris, Montpellier and the French Riviera, which she moved between frequently.

She was an important shareholder of the English Woman's Journal, established in 1858 by Barbara Bodichon, Matilda Mary Hays and Bessie Rayner Parkes to cover employment and equality issues.

However, this legacy was contested under the cy-près doctrine, as the Church Education Corporation Ltd. wished to apply the money towards "the building of a boarding school for girls in or near Oxford".