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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.
- Socialist and feminist activism
- Secretary to Eleanor Marx
- Biddy
- Henry Jones Lanchester (father)
30. Nov. 2020 · Edith Lanchester was a headstrong feminist and socialist who lived with her lover, Shamus Sullivan, out of wedlock and was declared insane by her father and brothers. She was taken to an asylum in 1895 and released under review, where she met Karl Marx's daughter Eleanor Marx and became a communist. She also became a Hollywood actress and the mother of Elsa Lanchester, who played the Bride of Frankenstein.
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 · Loading…. Yesterday & today, in London healthcare history: Hayes and Northwood & Pinner hospitals occupied, 1983. 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.
5. Feb. 2018 · Edith Lanchester – socialist and feminist. World history. 5 February, 2018. Lewisham’s famous women: Edith Lanchester (1871-1966) 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.
In 1895, Henry Lanchester learned that his daughter Edith had fallen in love with a man who was not only poor, but also socialist and Irish; worse, she was intending to live with him out of wedlock. Thrown by the situation, Lanchester turned to the psychiatrist George Fielding Blandford. 1. who decreed that Edith, ’s “free love”
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 ...
