Rebellious Daughters of History #15 by Judy Cox Catherine Impey (1847-1923) Catherine Impey was a radical Quaker who lived in Street, Somerset. She travelled around America 1870s and was horrified by the racism she witnessed. Her small home became a meeting place for black activists including Frederick Douglass who visited her in 1888. After meeting […]

Rebellious Daughters of History #13 by Judy Cox Rent striker, suffragist and communist: Helen Crawfurd Helen Jack was born in the Gorbals, a working class area of Glasgow. Her mother worked a steam-loom and her father was a baker. Helen became active in the women’s suffrage movement around 1900, and in 1910 she joined the […]

Rebellious Daughters of History #12 by Judy Cox Painting the Revolution – Nadezhda Udaltsova (1885-1961) Nadezhda was one of a group of Russian avant-guard painters who were part of a great flowering of creative experimentation following the Revolution of 1917. Before 1914, Nadezhda studied painting in Paris, experimented with Constructivism and later joined the Suprematist […]

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 […]