Sara Rey Álvarez

Sara Rey Álvarez (1894–1949) was a Uruguayan writer, feminist and political activist.

Sara Rey Álvarez studied psychology and philosophy in London and Brussels in the mid-1920s.

[1] There she interviewed Emmeline Pankhurst,[2] and met Louise Van Den Plas and other European suffragists.

[1] In 1929 she became a member of the Council for the Protection of Delinquents and Minors, trying to change how women's prisons and asylums were managed.

[2] The following year she launched the Independent Democratic Feminist Party (Partido Independiente Democratico Femenino, or PIDF).