Elizabeth Malleson
Elizabeth Malleson (née Whitehead; 1828-1916) was an English educationalist, suffragist and activist for women's education and rural nursing.
Life
Elizabeth Whitehead was born into a Unitarian family in Chelsea, Malleson was the first child of 11. After working as a governess and teaching at the experimental Portman Hall School.[1][2]
In May 1857 she married a businessman and Unitarian minister named Frank Rodbard Malleson and they were to have four children. Malleson became involved with Frederick Maurice's Working Men's College.[3]
In 1863 she was a founding member of the Ladies' London Emancipation Society.[4] Other founder members and executive committee included Mary Estlin, Sarah Parker Remond, Harriet Martineau,[5] Eliza Wigham[6] and another women's college founder Charlotte Manning.[4]
Malleson founded the Working Woman's College in Queen Square in Bloomsbury in 1864, and the Rural Nursing Association in 1889 which supplied District Nurses into England's villages.[1][2]
Working Women's College
The college became open to both men and women in 1874 after the Working Men's College refused an offer to merge. This co-educational idea was driven by Malleson and her husband and the resulting opposition in the college led to a group moving away to form another college for women. The Malleson's "College for Men and Women" continued in operation to 1901.[7]
Rural Nursing
Malleson moved with her family to Dixton Manor in 1884[3] and there she was concerned to find that there was little local service of nurses for pregnant women. Malleson arranged for a trained nurse to be available to serve the people of Gotherington. Malleson's scheme was not the first but she decided to form a national organisation and her appeal for help brought her into contact with Lady Lucy Hicks-Beech. She was the wife of Michael Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn and they gathered enough support to launch a Rural Nursing Association.[8]
In 1871 Queen Victoria decided to use £70,000 donated to her Jubilee to found the Queen's Nursing Institute in 1889. Malleson's nurses became the Rural Nursing Division in 1891 and Malleson became the organisation's secretary.[8]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ogilvie & Harvey 2000, p. 834.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Crawford 2003, p. 367.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Owen Stinchcombe, ‘Malleson , Elizabeth (1828–1916)’, rev. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 29 July 2015
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