Anita Lett

Anita Georgina Edith Lett ( 1871 – 5 June 1940) was an Irish activist who founded the Irish Countrywomen's Association, originally known as the United Irishwomen.

Early life Anita Georgina Edith Studdy was born about 1871 in England to Captain Henry Studdy who was a Captain the Royal Navy.

Career Lett was a believer that the government was not the best organisation to take control of issues like the feeding of children in school. However she was also not prepared to sit back and watch children go hungry.

Lett believed, as did the organisation she helped to create, that a woman's place was in activism and the public sphere especially in areas like the Poor Law Guardians and local elected officials responsible for women's work and children's welfare.

Supporting her belief in the value of games for girls, Lett was the trainer for the Davidstown/Bree camogie team which won the district final in 1913.

Later family She married Harold Lett in Enniscorthy on 27 April 1909. They lived in Ballynapierce, Enniscorthy. She had a daughter, also Anita, on 22 January 1910 with her second husband. Harold Lett was the chairman of the local board of Guardians and a staunch loyalist. Lett died in 1940 of cirrhosis of the liver two years after her husband.