Lizzy Lind af Hageby
Swedish-British feminist and animal rights activist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Emilie Augusta Louise "Lizzy" Lind af Hageby (20 September 1878 – 26 December 1963) was a Swedish-British feminist and animal rights advocate who became a prominent anti-vivisection activist in England in the early 20th century.[1]
Lizzy Lind Af Hageby | |
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Born | Emilie Augusta Louise Lind af Hageby (1878-09-20)20 September 1878 Jönköping, Sweden |
Died | 26 December 1963(1963-12-26) (aged 85) 7 St Edmunds Terrace, St John's Wood, London |
Citizenship | Swedish, British |
Alma mater | Cheltenham Ladies' College London School of Medicine for Women |
Occupation(s) | Writer, anti-vivisectionist |
Organization | Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society |
Known for | Brown Dog affair |
Notable work | The Shambles of Science: Extracts from the Diary of Two Students of Physiology (1903) |
Parent | Emil Lind af Hageby (father) |
Born to a distinguished Swedish family, Lind af Hageby and Leisa Katherine Schartau (another Swedish activist) enrolled at the London School of Medicine for Women in 1902 to advance their anti-vivisectionist education. The women attended vivisections at University College London, and in 1903 published their diary, The Shambles of Science: Extracts from the Diary of Two Students of Physiology, which accused researchers of having vivisected a dog without adequate anaesthesia. The ensuing scandal, known as the Brown Dog affair, included a libel trial, damages for one of the researchers, and rioting in London by medical students.[2]
In 1906 Lind af Hageby co-founded the Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society and later ran an animal sanctuary at Ferne House in Dorset with the Duchess of Hamilton. She became a British citizen in 1912, and spent the rest of her life writing and speaking about animal protection and the link between that and feminism.[3][4] A skilled orator, she broke a record in 1913 for the number of words uttered during a trial, when she delivered 210,000 words and asked 20,000 questions during an unsuccessful libel suit she brought against the Pall Mall Gazette, which had criticized her campaigns.[5] The Nation called her testimony "the most brilliant piece of advocacy that the Bar has known since the day of Russell, though it was entirely conducted by a woman."[6][7]