Miss Eliza 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Sympathies: The Kensington Society, the 1866 Women's Suffrage Petition and the Development of Mid-Victorian Feminism' (unpublished PhD, University of Greenwich, 1995)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 Annie Keary.

Other Suffrage Activities: Eliza and her sister Annie 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. Eliza wrote a book about her sister's life: Memoirs of Annie Keary (1883).

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