Ada Wallas

Ada Wallas or Ada (or "Audrey") Radford (10 December 1859 – 12 October 1934) was an English writer and teacher.

Life Wallas was born in Plymouth in 1859. Her father was George David Radford who was a partner in a drapers in Mannamead. Her mother Catherine Agnes had ten children and Wallas was the penultimate. Her non-conformist and close knit family sent her to Plymouth High School for Girls and then on to Newnham College to study mathematics. She then taught for a year at Wimbledon High School before returning to Devon. She moved back to London in 1893 having kept house for her brother. She had a private income and the Westminster Gazette.

In 1898, Ada contributed poems to her brother Ernest Radford's publication Songs in the Whirlwind using the name Ada Radford.

In 1929, she published Before the Bluestockings which included biographies that she had previously published. In the same year she published her early reminiscences under the title Daguerreotypes.

Wallas died in her house in Chelsea in 1934.