Ellen McArthur
In 1897-1898 Ellen McArthur and Getrude Tuckwell appeared as teachers at the London School of Economics who were both linked with Girton College, Cambridge.
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Ellen Leonard
In 1907 the LSE Students’ Union elected its first woman President, also known as the Chairman of the Common Rooms Committee. Ellen Marianne Leonard (1866-1953) was a 41 year old historian who had been connected to LSE since 1896. During her time at LSE Ellen produced two publications. In 1900 she published The Early History of English Poor Relief dedicated to William Cunningham.
Anne Page
Anne Barbara Page, who graduated from the London School of Economics in 1912 with a First Class Honours degree in Economics and went on to work as private secretary for Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, a Conservative Party Chairman and LSE Chair of Governors from 1916-1935.
Beatrice Hewart
In 1898, she published The Wages of London Vestry Employees in the Economic Journal.
Edith Morley
Edith Morley was a scholar in English literature, the first woman appointed to a Chair in a British university level institution
Maureen Colquhoun
Women’s rights activist and former Labour Member of Parliament for Northampton North
Clara Collet
Collet was an educational trailblazer from her earliest days having attended the North London Collegiate School for Girls, an influential and important school which treated girls’ education seriously and taught topics usually only reserved for boys.
Beatrice Webb
One of the four founders of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Priscilla Wakefield
English writer. She published numerous works, chiefly educational, including Mental Improvement, Leisure Hours, Reflections on the Present Condition of the Female Sex, with Hints for its Improvement and several volumes of descriptive geography.
Mollie Orshansky
Mollie Orshansky was an American economist and statistician who developed the Orshansky Poverty Thresholds, used for measuring household incomes.