Mary Kathleen Lyttelton was a British activist, editor and writer. She devoted much of her life to fighting for women's suffrage and for the improvement of women's lives in general.
Occupation
activist, writer, editor, suffragist
Position held
women's rights activist
Citizenship
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Born
February 27, 1856
Died
January 12, 1907
Overview
Mary Kathleen Lyttelton (née Clive; 27 February 1856 – 12 January 1907) was a British activist, editor and writer. She devoted much of her life to fighting for women's suffrage and for the improvement of women's lives in general.
After a period of 11 years in Cambridge, as wife of Selwyn College's first Master Arthur Lyttelton, she concentrated on her writing and women's committee work. In her 1901 book Women and Their Work she argued that education for women was "essential to their true progress", with the franchise being a necessary part of that education.
Early life
Mary Kathleen Clive was born on 27 February 1856 in Belgravia, London. Her father was the judge and Liberal politician George Clive, her mother Ann Sybella Martha Farquhar.
In spite of the initial misgivings of her father, in 1880 she married the Hon Arthur Lyttelton, then a tutor at Keble College, Oxford. Fortunately the marriage proved strong and the couple went on to have three children: Margaret Lucy (1882), Archer Geoffrey (1884), and Stephen Clive (1887).
