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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.
30. Nov. 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. Okt. 2021 · In the autumn of 1895 Edith Lanchester was 24. Born into a middle-class family, she had studied at the Birkbeck Institute and worked as a City clerk. She was also already a seasoned socialist campaigner; her ringing voice, it was said, could command the attention of the most hostile of crowds.
25. Okt. 2018 · On 25 October 1895, Edith Lanchester was kidnapped by her father and brothers, sectioned, and forcibly incarcerated in a lunatic asylum – her punishment for announcing her plan to live unmarried with her lover.
One of these New Women was Edith Lanchester, who was socially and politically radical but was briefly incarcerated in an asylum by her father for being ‘over-educated’. The LMI/Birkbeck was welcoming not only to female students but also to progressive, early feminists.
What theoretical contortions produced the idea of the “feeble brain” in the nineteenth century? And how did British women like Edith Lanchester manage to fight it? As we investigate these questions, we will take a different perspective on the relationships between psychiatry and (anti-)feminism, and subject to scrutiny the mechanisms of ...
5. Feb. 2018 · Many people know of the famous Catford born actress Elsa Lanchester, but what do you know of her socialist and feminist mother, Edith? Edith ‘Biddy’ Lanchester was born in Hove, Sussex on 28 July 1871.
