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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.
Edith Lanchester o el precio de la libertad. En la época victoriana, llena de convencionalismos sociales, una mujer proveniente de una familia acomodada desafió los preceptos sociales, se involucró en la lucha obrera y sufragista y rehusó unirse en matrimonio con su compañero.
30 de nov. de 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.
10 de oct. de 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.
In 1895, Henry Lanchester learned that his daughter Edith had fallen in love with a man who was not only poor, but also socialist and Irish; worse, she was intending to live with him out of wedlock. Thrown by the situation, Lanchester turned to the psychiatrist George Fielding Blandford. 1. who decreed that Edith, ’s “free love”
25 de oct. de 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.
5 de feb. de 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.
