Edith Palliser

Edith Charlotte Bury Palliser (22 December 1859 – 25 November 1927), was a campaigner for women’s suffrage and rights in Great Britain and Ireland.

Edith Charlotte Bury Palliser
Esther Roper (Seated), Edith Palliser (Left), Mrs. Blaxter (Right)
Born
Edith Charlotte Bury Palliser

22 December 1859
Comragh, County Waterford, Ireland
Died25 November 1927
Hartfield, Sussex, England, United Kingdom

Early life and education

Born 22 December 1859 Edith Charlotte Bury Palliser was the youngest child and only daughter to Frederick Hugh Palliser and Emily Price.[1] Her father was from an Anglo-Irish family and was an explorer and big-game hunter. But they lost much of the family fortune during the Irish Famine and the collapse of the family plantation in Ceylon. In 1865 Palliser was living with her family in Norway but her parents separated and she returned to live in Waterford with her mother. They lived in Comeragh House, Waterford.[2][3][4]

By 1895 Palliser had moved to London where she got a position as secretary with the Central Committee of the National Society for Women’s Suffrage. Palliser was chair of the London Society for Women’s Suffrage and secretary of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies as well as an executive member from 1911 to 1913. She remained with the campaign for suffrage until she retired in 1919. Palliser was the editor of the Women’s Suffrage Record, a quarterly newspaper which she privately funded. Her subeditor was Frances Sterling. She also was co-editor of a children's text about evolution called 'The Way the World Went Then' with Helen Blackburn. She was a contributor to, and board member of The Englishwoman a feminist paper related to the National Society for Women’s Suffrage. Palliser advised on the creation of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance and represented England in the first meeting in Berlin and again in Amsterdam, in 1904 and 1908. In 1915 she became chair of the London Committee of the Scottish Women's Hospitals during World War I.[2][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]

Palliser spent most of her work life living in Kensington and lived with Dr Mabel Paine for some time. She died 25 November 1927 in her cousin Frances Sterling's home in Sussex.[2]

Legacy

Her work during the war was commemorated by a bed in the maternity unit of the Royal Free Hospital.[2]

Bibliography
  • Women's suffrage record
  • The way the world went then (1898)
  • Leading facts of the movement for the parliamentary enfranchisement of women (1900)
  • Government Reform Bill and National Union policy (1912)
  • In support of Sir Charles McLaren's women's suffrage resolution (1907)
  • Martial heroines : Agostina Zaragoza (1916)
  • A letter (1906)
  • Preliminary notice (1906)
  • Extract from a letter issued by the Executive Committee (1911)
  • Whitechapel election appeal (1913)

References and sources
  1. Oxford dictionary of national biography. British Academy., Oxford University Press. (Online ed.). Oxford. ISBN 9780198614128. OCLC 56568095.CS1 maint: others (link)
  2. Crawford, Elizabeth. "Palliser, Edith Charlotte Bury". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.369188. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. "Edith Charlotte Bury Palliser". Main Page. 20 July 2009. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  4. Crawford, E. (2001). The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928. Women's and gender history. Routledge. p. 485. ISBN 978-0-415-23926-4. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  5. "Edith Palliser to Mis Strachey". The National Archives. 18 December 2008. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  6. "Nat. Un. Women's Suffrage Socs. (Edith Palliser): hopes JRM will support ballot for Women's Suffrage". The National Archives. 18 December 2008. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  7. Delap, L.; DiCenzo, M.; Ryan, L. (2006). Feminism and the Periodical Press, 1900-1918. ES series. Historical sources of women's studies. Routledge. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-415-32028-3. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  8. "Unreported History: the National Convention for the Defence of the Civic Rights of Women, October 1903, By Dr. Maureen Wright". Women's History Network. 8 January 2019. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  9. Crawford, E. (2013). The Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain and Ireland: A Regional Survey. Women's and Gender History. Taylor & Francis. p. 297. ISBN 978-1-136-01062-0. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  10. Star, Morning (4 December 2016). "Impressive life of feminist pioneer". Morning Star. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  11. "Women's Suffrage Pamphlets 3". LSE Digital Library. 28 April 1909. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
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