Lizzy Lind Af Hageby | |
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.jpg) Lizzy Lind af Hageby, December 1913. | |
| Born | Emilie Augusta Louise Lind af Hageby 20 September 1878 Jönköping, Sweden |
| Died | 26 December 1963 (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) |
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]
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]
- ^ Hilda Kean, "The 'Smooth Cool Men of Science': The Feminist and Socialist Response to Vivisection", History Workshop Journal, 40, 1995 (pp. 16–38), p. 20. PMID 11608961
- ^ Coral Lansbury, The Old Brown Dog: Women, Workers, and Vivisection in Edwardian England, University of Wisconsin Press, 1985, pp. 9–11.
- ^ Leah Leneman, "The awakened instinct: vegetarianism and the women's suffrage movement in Britain", Women's History Review, 6(2), 1997, p. 227. doi:10.1080/09612029700200144
- ^ Helen Rappaport, "Lind-af-Hageby, Louise," Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers, Volume 1, ABC-CLIO, 2001, p. 393.
- ^ "Woman lawyer praised: Miss Lind-af-Hageby loses case, but makes court record", The New York Times, 11 May 1913.
- ^ Lisa Gålmark, Shambles of Science, Lizzy Lind af Hageby & Leisa Schartau, anti-vivisektionister 1903-1913/14, History Department, Stockholm University, 1996, published by Federativ Publ., 1997, pp. 45-47.
- ^ The Nation and Athenæum, Volume 13, 1913, p. 127.