Mabel Hope

Mabel Besant Hope (born 1880) was an English socialist, anarchist and feminist activist, trade unionist and journalist. She wrote for the anarchist newspapers Freedom and Voice of Labour.

Biography Hope was born in 1880 in East Plumstead, Kent.

Hope became a socialist in 1897,

Hope was a supporter of the Labour Party and a founder member of the Women's Labour League. From 1906 until 1908, she served on the executive of the league, and at the 1907 Labour Party conference, she spoke in support of women's suffrage.

In 1912, Hope began writing articles for the anarchist monthly newspaper Freedom. In 1913, Hope joined the newly formed Anarchist Educational League, which had been founded by Fred Dunn, who advised them on how to establish their weekly newspaper Voice of Labour.

Hope became secretary of the London Council of Women Civil Servants in 1916, but in 1920 emigrated to the United States with Archer.