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Edith Ayrton Zangwill (1874-1945) was born in Japan, where her British parents were working at the time. She was the daughter of the electrical engineer William E. Ayrton (1847-1908) and his wife Matilda Chaplin (1846-1883), a doctor, who died when Edith was eight. Two years later her father married the scientist Hertha Marks Ayrton (1854-1923).

Edith Ayrton attended Bedford College from 1890-2, joined the WSPU alongside her stepmother, helped form the Jewish League for Woman Suffrage, and became a leading member of the United Suffragists. In 1903 she married the writer Israel Zangwill (1864-1926), who often spoke publicly in favour of women's suffrage. He encouraged his wife's writing.

She published her first book (for children) in 1904 and ...more

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