Mary Dormer Harris (1867–3 March 1936)[1] was a British local historian whose focus was the medieval history of Coventry.
[2] She was educated as a weekly boarder at Richmond and Twickenham High School, then studied English literature at Lady Margaret Hall at the University of Oxford.
[5] She exchanged letters with suffragette leader Christabel Pankhurst[1] and wrote to the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw seeking his support for women's enfranchisement in 1906.
She was the first woman to address the Leamington Literary Society,[8] giving a paper titled Warwickshire Life in Shakespeare’s Day.
[2] In 1916, during World War I, Harris was responsible for moving the Coventry Archives collection to the vault of Lloyds Bank, to prevent the damage or destruction of the documents if there were air raids.