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Anna Priestman

1828 – 1914

(1828–1914), social reformer and campaigner for women's rights

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Lived 1828 – 1914 (aged 86). Anna Priestman was an activist.

Anna Maria Priestman (23 March 1828 – 9 October 1914), was a British social reformer and women's rights activist.

Early life Anna Maria Priestman was born on 23 March 1828, the seventh of nine children of Jonathan Priestman (d. 1863), a wealthy Quaker tanner from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Rachel Bragg (1791–1854), a minister in the Society of Friends, and the daughter of Margaret Wilson, also a Quaker minister. They lived in the Summerhill district of Newcastle.

Personal life Priestman chose to remain single, and discussed her views on marriage in correspondence with her cousin and lifelong friend Jane Pease, who also never married.

Later life Priestman died at their Bristol home, 37 Durdham Park, which she shared with her sister Mary Priestman, on 9 October 1914, five days after her sister died. "The outbreak of the First World War was said to have been too much for either herself or Mary Priestman to bear."

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(1828–1914), social reformer and campaigner for women's rights

When was Anna Priestman born?

Anna Priestman was born on 17 January 1828 in Newcastle upon Tyne.

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Anna Priestman died on 17 January 1914.

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Anna Priestman was an activist.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Anna Priestman

· Wikidata: Q18572242

· DBpedia: Anna Maria Priestman

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