Helen Blackburn Facts:
Known for: writings on women's rights and women in the workplace
Occupation: writer, suffragist, activist
Dates: May 25, 1842
- January 11, 1903
About Helen Blackburn:
Born in Ireland, Helen Blackburn moved to London in 1859. She became involved in the British suffrage movement, and was elected Secretary of the National Society for Women's Suffrage in 1874.
From 1881 to 1890, Helen Blackburn was the editor of Englishwoman's Review. She donated her library of books, pamphlets, and records of women's rights organizations, with a bookcase she designed, to Girton College in memory of Lydia Becker and Caroline Ashurst Biggs.
Books:
- Condition of Working Women and the Factory (1896)
- Women's Suffrage: A Record of the Movement in the British Isles (1902)
- Women Under the Factory Acts (1903)
