Matilda M Hays

Gender: Female

Born: 1820

Died: 1897

Occupation: Actress/writer/editor

1866 Petition: Yes

Petition Area: Great Malvern, Worcestershire, England

Sources:

Other sources: https://www.parliament.uk/1866
Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain and Ireland: A Regional Survey (2006); Kathryn Gleadle, The Early Feminists, Radical Unitarians and the Emergence of the Women's Rights Movement, 1831?1851 (1995)

Further Information:

Other Suffrage Activities: Matilda was a member of the feminist Langham Place Circle and was co-editor of the Englishwoman's Journal. She also shared a then-unrecognised female 'marriage' with fellow actress and American Charlotte Cushman.