Edith Sophia Hooper Explained

Edith Sophia Hooper (4 March 1868 – 21 April 1926) was a British suffragette, born in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales. She was matriculated at University of St Andrews, and wrote the biographies in DNB12 of the following people:

• George Rundle Prynne (1818–1903), a British Anglo-Catholic cleric known for his Tractarian and ritualist views.^[1]
• Josephine Butler (1828–1906), an English feminist and social reformer who campaigned for women's suffrage.^[2]
• Joseph Skipsey (1832–1903), a Northumbrian poet and a literary coal miner known as The Pitman Poet'.^[3]
• William Bury Westall (1834–1903), an English novelist born in Accrington, Lancashire who later became a journalist.^[4]
• Frank Podmore (1856–1910), an English author, founding member of the Fabian Society and an influential member of the Society for Psychical Research.^[5]

Notes and References

1. Prynne, George Rundle . 3 . 142-144 . 1912. 1.
2. Butler, Josephine Elizabeth . 1 . 282-283 . 1912. 1.
3. Skipsey, Joseph . 3 . 320-321 . 1912. 1.
4. Westall, William . 3 . 634-635 . 1912. 1.
5. Podmore, Frank . 3 . 121-122 . 1912. 1.