Rebellious Daughters of History #11 by Judy Cox Factory Girl, Socialist and Writer: Ethel Carnie Holdsworth (1886 – 1962), Ethel Carnie was born into a weaving family in Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire. She started working part-time work in the mill at age eleven and worked full-time from thirteen. In her later articles for the Woman Worker, she […]

Rebellious Daughters of History #10 by Judy Cox Dora Montefiore (1851-1933): suffragist, pacifist, communist Dora Fuller was born on 20th December, 1851. She was educated at home, and then at a private school in Brighton. In 1874 she went to Australia, where she met George Barrow Montefiore, a wealthy businessman. They lived in Sydney, where […]

Rebellious Daughter of History #9 By Judy Cox Sarah Parker Redmond (1826-1894) Abolitionist,suffragist and activist Sarah Parker Remond was an African American slavery abolitionist, lecturer and physician. Her anti-slavery campaign, which she began at just 16 years old, took her across America and on to Britain and Europe – where she tirelessly condemned the atrocities […]

Rebellious Daughters of History #8 by Judy Cox Louise Otto Peters (1815-1895): ‘The Lace-makers’ (1840) Born in March 1819 to a middle-class family, Louise Otto-Peters was educated at home by a radical father. After his death, she established herself as a writer to support herself and her sisters, publishing volumes of socially committed novels and […]

Rebellious Daughters of History #7 by Judy Cox The Art of Resistance: Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945) Käthe Kollwitz’s artistic work depicts war and revolution and champions the dispossessed. Käthe Schmid was born in Kaliningrad, daughter of a bricklayer. Barred from studying art in her hometown because she was a woman, she moved to Berlin and Munich […]