Emily L.B. Forster
Briisth chemist, lecturer and author fl. 1917-1926
About Emily L.B. Forster
Lived 1900 – 1939. Emily L.B. Forster was a British chemist, university teacher, writer and careers advisor.
Emily Lydia Brady Forster (1870 – 4 September 1939) was an English chemist, pharmacist and vegetarian cookbook writer.
Life
Forster was born in 1870 in Chester to Robert Cochrane Forester and Lydia Brougham Vaughan. She trained in pharmacy and in 1917 authored How to Become a Dispenser: A New Profession for Women. She was a lecturer at the Westminster College of Pharmacy in 1920 and was a private assistant to. Prof. Huntington of King's College London. She was an analyst at the Metallurgical Laboratory and a member of the Society of Chemical Industry.
Forster campaigned for more females to enter the chemistry profession. In 1920, she commented that "since the war there are so many openings for women in chemical laboratories, where much useful and interesting work can be done". She died in 1939, aged 69.
Selected publications
How to Become a Dispenser: A New Profession for Women (1917) How to Become a Woman Doctor (1918) Vegetarian Cookery (1930)
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Briisth chemist, lecturer and author fl. 1917-1926
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Emily L.B. Forster was born in 1900.
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Emily L.B. Forster died on 4 September 1939.
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Emily L.B. Forster was a chemist, university teacher, writer and careers advisor.
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