Lucy Yates

Lucy Helen Yates (1863–1935) was a British suffragist and writer on cookery and finance. She left the Pankhursts' Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) to join the Women's Freedom League.

Life Yates was born in Basford near Nottingham in 1863. Some of her early writing was for the Girl's Own Paper. She started in 1892 writing about cookery.

Her first book The Profession of Cookery from a French Point of View was about cookery and so was her second. In 1903 she turned to finance in 1903 writing a book for businesswomen titled Management of Money A Handbook of Finance for Women.

In November 1907, Yates joined the mass exodus from the WSPU to join the Women's Freedom League and as a writer it was her job to explain the difference between the two organisations. She wrote that the WFL was democratic and they did not interrupt cabinet ministers as the WSPU were known to do. She was an assistant organising secretary of the WFL and she wrote articles for the WFL's paper The Vote.

In 1911, Yates was working for the Daily Mail and she did make a census return

Yates continued to write for Girls Own Paper on cookery, finance and fiction.

Yates died in 1935.

Publications include The Profession of Cookery from a French Point of View, 1894 The Convalescent's Diet, 1901. Management of Money A Handbook of Finance for Women, 1903 Business Matters for Women Simply Explained, 1908 In Camp and Kitchen: A Handy Guide for Emigrants and Settlers, 1912 What's Good to Eat, 1926 Marriage on Small Means, 1931 The Country Housewife’s Book, 1934