Edith Grey Wheelwright

Edith Grey Wheelwright (1868 – 24 September 1949) was a British writer, suffragist and botanist. She served as Secretary to the Bath Branch of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) from 1909 through 1913.

Biography

Wheelwright was born in 1868 in Crowhurst, Surrey, England. She studied botany and geology at the University of Oxford.

She was the author of three novels; The Vengeance of Medea (1894), Anthony Graeme (1895), and A Slow Awakening (1902). Additionally she wrote for the publications The Girl’s Own Paper and Great Thoughts. She began a friendship with writer and illustrator Beatrix Potter because of their mutual interest in plants.

Wheelwright died on 24 September 1949 in Clevedon, Somerset, England, from accidental coal gas poisoning.