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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.
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 · Edith Lanchester was a 24-year-old socialist clerk who refused to marry a factory worker in 1895. Her father had her abducted and committed to a lunatic asylum, claiming she was insane due to over-education.
Feb 5, 2018 · Learn about the life and achievements of Edith Lanchester, a pioneer of socialist feminism in 19th century Britain. She refused to marry her lover and faced a forced commitment, but later became a secretary to Eleanor Marx and a pacifist activist.
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).
