Constance Antonina Boyle was a British journalist, campaigner for women's suffrage and women's rights, charity and welfare worker, and novelist.
23 Facts About Nina Boyle
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Nina Boyle was one of the pioneers of women police officers in Britain.
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Nina Boyle was a descendant of the Earls of Glasgow through her father, Robert Boyle, who was a captain in the Royal Artillery and the younger son of David Boyle, Lord Boyle.
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Nina Boyle never married and did not have any children.
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Nina Boyle did hospital work in Africa and was employed as a journalist.
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Nina Boyle returned to Britain in 1911 and, drawing upon her experiences in South Africa, became active in the Colonial Intelligence League for Educated Women, headed by Princess Christian, a daughter of Queen Victoria.
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Nina Boyle had radical opinions about how women's position in society could be improved.
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Nina Boyle was associated with the Women's Freedom League along with other well-known suffragettes, including Charlotte Despard, Teresa Billington-Greig, Edith How-Martyn and Margaret Nevinson.
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Nina Boyle was quickly elected to the WFL's executive committee and became one of its leading speakers.
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The next year, in 1912, Nina Boyle became head of the WFL's political and militant department.
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Nina Boyle continued her journalism, publishing many articles in the WFL's newspaper, The Vote and employing Edith Watson as a campaigning court correspondent.
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Nina Boyle took a leading role in the WFL's campaigns and demonstrations.
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Nina Boyle was arrested on several more occasions and imprisoned three times.
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Nina Boyle protested against the conditions under which she and a fellow suffragist were taken to prison after being arrested for obstruction in 1913 and sentenced to 14 days imprisonment.
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In late 1916, Nina Boyle went to Macedonia and Serbia on hospital duty.
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Nina Boyle performed other war relief work in the Balkans, for which she was awarded the Samaritan Order of Serbia and the Allied Medal.
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Nina Boyle made known her intention to stand as a candidate for the WFL at Keighley and, if refused, to take the matter to the courts for a definitive ruling.
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Nina Boyle campaigned or addressed meetings on behalf of the National Union of Women Teachers, the Women's Election Committee, the Open Door Council and organisations concerned with the welfare of women and children in developing countries.
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Nina Boyle was particularly active in the Save the Children Fund, and in 1921 she went to the USSR to work in an SCF famine relief programme.
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Nina Boyle supported the work of the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene, an organisation that campaigned against the exploitation of prostitutes and their welfare.
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Nina Boyle was a speaker at a meeting of the anti-German and anti-immigrant British Empire Union in 1921, and shared a meeting with Margaret Lloyd George later that year.
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Nina Boyle died on 4 March 1943, aged 77 in a nursing home at 99 Cromwell Road, London.
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Apart from her journalistic and campaign-related publications, Nina Boyle mostly wrote adventure or mystery novels.