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Edith 'Biddy' Lanchester (28 July 1871 – 26 March 1966) was an English socialist, feminist and suffragette. She became well known in 1895 when her family had her incarcerated in an asylum for planning to live with her lover, who was an Irish, working-class labourer.
Nov 30, 2020 · Edith Lanchester was a socialist and suffragist who refused to marry and lived with her lover. She was forcibly committed to a lunatic asylum by her family and abused, but later became a communist activist and the mother of actress Elsa Lanchester.
Oct 10, 2021 · Edith Lanchester was a socialist campaigner who refused to marry her lover in 1895. She was abducted and committed by her father and a doctor, sparking a national outcry over the abuse of the lunacy laws.
May 30, 2023 · Learn about Edith Lanchester, a Birkbeck alumna who challenged the oppressive norms of her time. She fought for women's rights, socialism, and married a working-class man despite her family's opposition.
Oct 25, 2018 · Edith Lanchester was a socialist and freethinker who refused to marry her lover James Sullivan and was sectioned by her family. She was released after a campaign by her friends and became a prominent suffragist and socialist activist.
Dec 16, 2021 · By the autumn of 1895, Edith Lanchester was 24. Born into a prosperous middle-class family, she had studied at London University and Birkbeck and was earning her own living as a clerk at the Cardiff (New South Wales) Gold Mining Company.
Sep 5, 2012 · Edith Lanchester (1871-1966) was a British socialist and feminist. She was born to a prosperous architect and grew up in Battersea, south London; she became a prominent activist in the Marxist Social Democratic Federation (SDF).
