Miss Annie M Keary

Gender: Female

Marital Status: Single

Occupation: Writer

1866 Petition: Yes

Petition Area: 17 Addison Road, Kensington, Middlesex, England

Sources:

Other sources: https://www.parliament.uk/1866
Anne Dingsdale, 'Generous and Lofty Sympathies: The Kensington Society, the 1866 Women's Suffrage Petition and the Development of Mid-Victorian Feminism' (unpublished PhD, University of Greenwich ,1995)

Further Information:

Family information: Father was a clergyman. Signed 1866 petition with her sister Eliza Keary.

Other Suffrage Activities: Annie and her sister Eliza performed voluntary work in an East London children's hospital; helped out at the Servant's Home in Bessborough Gardens; and taught at Clementia (Mentia) Taylor's Aubrey Institute in Kensington. Annie wrote, 'I always feel that women may be so much more yet than they ever have been, but they will not, if men continue to insist that they should always conform strictly to one type.'

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