Miss Emma Ann Corfield
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Single
Born: 1836
Died: 1910
Main Suffrage Society: CCNSWS
Other Societies: MNSWS; WEU
1866 Petition: Yes
Petition Area: 33 Gerrard Street, London, Middlesex, England
Other sources: https://www.parliament.uk/1866
Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866?1928 (2001)
Family information: Father a Unitarian and social reform campaigner. Her mother also signed the 1866 petition.
Additional Information: Emma and her mother Elizabeth both signed the 1866 petition. She subscribed to the Central Committee of the NSWS (CCNSWS) (1873), the Manchester NSWS (1880) and the Women's Emancipation Union (WEU) (1894). Her father Joseph organised the erection of the Reformers Memorial obelisk in Kensal Green Cemetery, London, in 1885, which had carved into it the names of men and women that had worked for the public good. In 1907, a few years before her death, Emma arranged for more names to be added, which included women's suffrage campaigners Barbara Bodichon, Lydia Becker and Henry Fawcett.
Other Suffrage Activities: In her will, Emma left funds to several London institutions: the Working Men's College, the New Hospital for Women (later the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital), the Chelsea Hospital for Women and the Sailors and Orphan Girls School and Home in Hampstead.