1. Edith Palliser's father was from an Anglo-Irish family and was an explorer and big-game hunter, however they lost much of the family fortune during the Irish Famine and the collapse of the family plantation in Ceylon.
10 Facts About Edith Palliser
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In 1865 Palliser was living with her family in Norway but her parents separated and she returned to live in Waterford with her mother.
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Edith Palliser was chair of the London Society for Women's Suffrage and secretary of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies as well as an executive member from 1911 to 1913.
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Edith Palliser remained with the campaign for suffrage until she retired in 1919.
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Edith Palliser was the editor of the Women's Suffrage Record, a quarterly newspaper which she privately funded.
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Edith Palliser was co-editor of a children's text about evolution called 'The Way the World Went Then' with Helen Blackburn.
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Edith Palliser was a contributor to, and board member of The Englishwoman a feminist paper related to the National Society for Women's Suffrage.
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Edith Palliser advised on the creation of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance and represented England in the first meeting in Berlin and again in Amsterdam, in 1904 and 1908.
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Edith Palliser spent most of her work life living in Kensington and lived with Dr Mabel Paine for some time.
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Edith Palliser died 25 November 1927 in her cousin Frances Sterling's home in Sussex.