18 Facts About Anna Haslam

Anna Maria Haslam was a suffragist and a major figure in the 19th and early 20th century women's movement in Ireland.

Anna Haslam was born the 16th of 17 children to Jane and Abraham Fisher.

Anna Haslam helped in soup kitchens and became involved in setting up cottage industries for local girls in lace-making, crocheting and knitting.

Anna Haslam was brought up believing in equality for men and women and supporting the campaign against slavery and for temperance and pacifism.

Anna Haslam attended Quaker boarding schools, Newtown School in County Waterford and Castlegate School in York, which later became The Mount School, York.

Anna Haslam then became a teaching assistant in Ackworth School, Yorkshire.

Anna Haslam met Thomas Haslam who was teaching there and who was from Mountmellick, County Laois.

Anna and Thomas Haslam married on 20 March 1854 in Cork Registry Office.

Anna and Thomas Haslam shared a belief in equality for men and women and he supported her campaigns.

Thomas Joseph Anna Haslam was born in 1825 to a Quaker family.

Thomas Anna Haslam died on 30 January 1917, in his ninety-second year.

Anna Haslam is best remembered today for her work for votes for women.

Anna Haslam was a pioneer in every 19th century Irish feminist campaign and she fought for votes for women from the year 1866.

Anna and Thomas Haslam were founding members of the Dublin Women's Suffrage Association in 1876.

Anna Haslam then led a campaign to encourage qualified women to stand for election in 1898.

Anna Haslam opposed the act as she felt it legitimised prostitution, commoditised women and undermined family life.

Anna Haslam was involved in the 1866 petition and gathered 1,499 signatures to extend suffrage to women as well as men.

Anna Haslam died on 28 November 1922 at her home in Carlton Terrace, of "cardiac dropsy" aged 93.