Emily Dorothea Pavy

Pavy in 1906

Emily Dorothea Pavy CBE (19 June 1885 – 8 September 1967) was an Australian teacher, sociologist and lawyer. In 1912, she became the first Catherine Helen Spence scholarship recipient. While at London School of Economics, she researched the conditions of female factory workers and wrote a thesis named Welfare Work. She died in 1967.