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Emily Spender

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Emily Spender (Bath, 1841–1922) was an English novelist and suffragette. She was cousin of the diarist Henry Crabb Robinson and sister-in law of radical publisher William Saunders, who placed her brother Edward Spender into a position as editor of the Western Morning News.[1] Spender published her first two novels anonymously, first a conventional novel Son and Heir (1870), and then the feminist novel Restored (Hurst & Blackett, 1871), which was dedicated to Lilias Sophia Hallett the leader of the Bristol society for women's suffrage.

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  1. ^ Elizabeth Crawford The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866-1928 2003 1135434026 "SPENDER, EMILY (1841–1922) Novelist, daughter of Dr John Cottle Spender, who ran a long-established family medical practice in Bath. She was a cousin of Crabb Robinson the diarist; her brother- in-law William Saunders was a radical... In 1871 Emily Spender was honorary secretary of the newly founded BATH COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL ..