Beatrice Harraden was a British novelist and a prominent figure in the fight for women's suffrage. Here's a quick summary:
- Accomplished writer:
- Achieved fame at the start of the mass-market fiction era.
- Her most famous novel, Ships That Pass in the Night (1893), was a huge success, translated into many languages.
- Champion of women's rights:
- A vocal suffragette and founding member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU).
- Actively campaigned for women's voting rights, speaking at rallies and contributing to the WSPU journal.
- Also involved with the Women's Writers' Suffrage League and the Women's Tax Resistance League.
- Education:
- Unusually well-educated for her time, attending universities and colleges in Dresden, Cheltenham, London (Bedford College).
- Earned a B.A. with honors in mathematics and classics in 1883.
