Ellen Malos was an Australian-British scholar and activist associated with Bristol Women's Aid, and a key figure in Bristol's Women's Liberation Movement.
11 Facts About Ellen Malos
Ellen Malos's father was a longtime socialist, glazier and decorator, and her mother had made knitwear.
Ellen Malos committed to teach in order to obtain a scholarship.
Ellen Malos wrote a prize-winning thesis about the novelist Patrick White.
Ellen Malos had to take up supply teaching as she was discriminated against because she was married.
Ellen Malos's husband lost his job because he was a socialist.
Ellen Malos studied for a master's degree and he completed his doctorate.
Ellen Malos started a doctorate but had to abandon it as her supervisor that it unbelievable that a woman would try and get a Ph.
Ellen Malos recalled how in 1971 a man who spoke at a Women's Liberation Movement meeting of "fighting for Women's Liberation all my life", while condemning lesbians, was dragged off the platform.
In 1990, Gill Hague and Ellen Malos founded a Violence Against Women Research Group.
Ellen Malos died at home on 22 August 2023, at the age of 85.