Anne Isabella Robertson Explained

Anne Isabella Robertson
Birth Name:Anne Isabella Robertson
Death Date:21 April 1910
Death Place:Dublin

Anne Isabella Robertson (– 21 April 1910) was a writer and leading suffragist in Ireland.

Life

Born Anne Isabella Robertson in about 1830 to Major Archibald Robertson. Her father was president of the African Institute, established in Paris for the suppression of slavery. She was one of the women who presented a petition on Women's suffrage in 1868 along with her sister. Robertson led the Irish campaign for the next few years. She spoke at Manchester and Birmingham meetings. She was the President of the Irish National Society for Women's Suffrage in 1871 as well as secretary of the Dublin Branch of the Women's suffrage society. Before that she had written novels on politics and religious life in Ireland as well as discussing women's employment. Robertson was active in Lydia Becker's Married Women's Property campaign. She spoke eloquently on women's suffrage and she travelled to Edinburgh in 1873 to meet Eliza Wigham and the Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage. She was well regarded in this field and the John Stuart Mill's London Suffrage Society ordered 1,000 copies of her essay "Women's Needs to be Represented" to be distributed. Robertson is considered one of Ireland's first suffragists. She lived with her sister and mother in Sandymount, Dublin. Both predeceased her.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]

Writings

Notes and References

  1. Book: Lewis, J. . Before the Vote was Won . Taylor & Francis . Women's Source Library . 2013 . 978-1-136-40961-5 . 2019-09-12 . 141.
  2. Book: Hall . C. . McClelland . K. . Rendall . J. . Defining the Victorian Nation: Class, Race, Gender and the British Reform Act of 1867 . Cambridge University Press . 2000 . 978-0-521-57653-6 . 2019-09-12 . 36.
  3. Book: Hall . D.E. . Helmich . J. . Fixing Patriarchy: Feminism and Mid-Victorian Male Novelists . NYU Press . 1996 . 978-0-8147-3537-4 . 2019-09-12 . 196.
  4. Web site: Lewis . Jane . Speech on the women's disabilities removal bill 26 April 1876 - Before the Vote was Won: Arguments For and Against Women's Suffrage 1864–1896 - History of Feminism . History of Feminism . 2010-10-18 . 2019-09-12.
  5. Book: Murray . J.H. . Stark . M. . The Englishwoman's Review of Social and Industrial Questions: 1870 . Taylor & Francis . Routledge Library Editions: The Englishwoman's Review of Social and Industrial Questions . 2016 . 978-1-315-41167-5 . 2019-09-12 . 93.
  6. Book: Burton, A.M. . Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915 . University of North Carolina Press . Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915 . 1994 . 978-0-8078-4471-7 . 2019-09-12 . 90.
  7. Web site: 5.2.3 The campaign begins . Discovering Women in Irish History . 1999-12-24 . 2019-09-12.
  8. Web site: Irish Genealogy - Death . civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie.
  9. Web site: Sister and address -National Archives: Census of Ireland 1911 . www.census.nationalarchives.ie.
  10. News: Irish Society for Women's Suffrage . The Waterford Mail . 9 November 1871.
  11. Book: Crawford, E. . The Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain and Ireland: A Regional Survey . Taylor & Francis . Women's and Gender History . 2013 . 978-1-136-01062-0 . 2019-09-13 . 253.
  12. Web site: The Curran Index: Once A Week . curranindex.org . The Research Society For Victorian Periodicals . 2019-11-24.
  13. Book: Anne I. Robertson. The Story of Nelly Dillon. 1866. T. Cautley Newby.

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