Ada Wallas
Ada Wallas | |
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| Born | 10 December 1859 Plymouth |
| Died | 12 October 1934 Chelsea |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
| Education | Plymouth High School for Girls, Newnham College |
Ada Wallas or Ada (or "Audrey") Radford (10 December 1859 – 12 October 1934) was an English writer and teacher.
Life
Wallas was born in Plymouth in 1859. Her father was George David Radford who was a partner in a drapers in Mannamead. Her mother Catherine Agnes had ten children and Wallas was the penultimate. Her non-conformist and close knit family sent her to Plymouth High School for Girls and then on to Newnham College to study mathematics. She then taught for a year at Wimbledon High School before returning to Devon. She moved back to London in 1893 having kept house for her brother. She had a private income[1] and she also was now a published writer after pieces had appeared in The Yellow Book[2] and the Westminster Gazette.[1]
In 18 December 1897 she married the socialist Graham Wallas. The following year they had a daughter May Wallas. May had to be cared for when having diphtheria in 1910 and flu in 1917 when she too was at Newnham College.[1] May obtained her doctorate at the London School of Economics, which her father had founded. She later went to lecture at Newnham.[3]
In 1898 Ada contributed poems to her brother Ernest's publication Songs in the Whirlwind using the name Ada Radford.[2]
In 1929 she published Before the Bluestockings which included biographies that she had previously published.[4] In the same year she published her early reminiscences under the title Daguerreotypes.[5]
Wallas died in her house in Chelsea in 1934.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d Gillian Sutherland, ‘Wallas , Ada (1859–1934)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, April 2016 accessed 26 Jan 2017
- ^ a b Carolyn Christensen Nelson (7 November 2000). A New Woman Reader: Fiction, Articles and Drama of the 1890s. Broadview Press. pp. 91–93. ISBN 978-1-55111-295-4.
- ^ Wallas Family Papers, Janus, Retrieved 26 January 2017
- ^ Ada Radford Wallas (1929). Before the Bluestockings. G. Allen & Unwin Limited.
- ^ Ada Radford Wallas (1929). Daguerreotypes. G. Allen & Unwin Limited.
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