Lady Jessie Rose-Innes (née Dods Pringle, 1 November 1860 – 4 June 1943) was a South African nurse, social campaigner and suffragist of British descent.
[2] She was one of the first women to attend the University of Cape Town after it became a fully co-educational institution,[3] trained as a nurse and during the South African War, and was a member of the Good Hope Red Cross Committee.
They had one daughter, Dorothy Rose-Innes,[1] who was born in 1884, married the German field marshal Count Helmuth von Moltke of Kreisau 1905,[8] and was active in the Christian Science movement.
[9] Rose-Innes was also a close friend of the writer, suffragist and activist Olive Schreiner and they exchanged letters throughout their lives.
[4] The suffrage campaign in South Africa was complex and was shaped by race, class and the nation's struggle against apartheid.