Coralie Glyn
Coralie Glyn (1866 – 1928) was an English humanitarian dedicated to improving conditions for working women. She was also an author of speculative fiction novels.
Early life and family[edit]
She was born Alice Coralie Glyn in 1866, the daughter of Vice-Admiral the Hon. Henry Carr Glyn and his wife Rose, née Mahony.[1] Her sister was Rose Riversdale Glyn, later Lady Norreys, and she had two brothers, the third and fourth barons Wolverton.[2]
Writing and humanitarian work[edit]
Considered 'one of the newest of new women' with 'most advanced views,'[3] she wrote on women’s rights in many contributions to periodicals, notably 'Nature’s Nuns: A Reply to Grant Allen' on the subject of marriage and motherhood.[4] Her 1896 novel A Woman of To-Morrow imagines a world of 1996 where women have the vote and are able to become barristers.[5][6][7]
A member of the Pioneer Club,[8] in 1898 she founded the Camelot Club, a club with no entry fee which provided a meeting place and excursions for working women.[9]
Her will provided the resources for fourteen bungalows to be built in Welwyn Garden City for the free use of working-class widows.[10][11] This legacy was still functioning over a century later as the charity Alice Coralie Glyn Homes.[12]
Personal life[edit]
Coralie was a keen cyclist.[13][14]
Although her engagement to the inventor St George Lane Fox was announced in 1892,[15] she never married.[16]
References[edit]
- ^ "Hon. Henry Carr Glyn obituary". www.pdavis.nl. Retrieved 2024-05-16.
- ^ Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1895). Armorial Families: A Complete Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, and a Directory of Some Gentlemen of Coat-armour, and Being the First Attempt to Show which Arms in Use at the Moment are Borne by Legal Authority. Jack. p. 413.
- ^ Masque, Lady (1892). "The Great World". Lady's Realm. II: 466.
- ^ Heilmann, Ann (2021-12-16). The Late-Victorian Marriage Question: A Collection of Key New Woman Texts V2. Routledge. pp. xiv. ISBN 978-1-000-56026-8.
- ^ Futures Past: The Official Journal of the Science Fiction Resources Network. Futures past. 1992. p. 5.
- ^ "Author: Alice Coralie Glyn". www.victorianresearch.org. Retrieved 2024-05-16.
- ^ "SFE: Glyn, Coralie". sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2024-05-16.
- ^ The Author. Alexander P. Watt. 1897. p. 44.
- ^ Doughan, David; Gordon, Professor Peter; Gordon, Peter (2014-06-03). Dictionary of British Women's Organisations, 1825-1960. Routledge. p. 30. ISBN 978-1-136-89770-2.
- ^ The Times Law Reports and Commercial Cases. 1950. p. 510.
- ^ "Alice Coralie Glyn Homes – Housing for those in need". Retrieved 2024-05-16.
- ^ "Welwyn Garden City. Alice Coralie Glyn". Herts Memories. Retrieved 2024-05-16.
- ^ "Some Famous Lady Cyclists". Lady's Realm. II: 542. 1897.
- ^ Country Life Illustrated. 1897. p. 629.
- ^ "'Lightning' Offices". Lightning. Vol. II, no. 63. 29 Dec 1892. p. 408.
- ^ Medlam, Sarah; Museum, Victoria and Albert (1996). The Bettine, Lady Abingdon Collection: The Bequest of Mrs T.R.P. Hole : a Handbook. Victoria and Albert Museum. p. 32. ISBN 978-1-85177-179-0.
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