Molly Harrison

Molly Harrison ( Hodgett; 23 September 1909 – 7 August 2002) was an English museum curator and author who was curator of the Geffrye Museum from 1941 to 1969. She added the museum's first modern room in her belief history did not end at the Victorian era and came up with hand-written and illustrated information items. Harrison was an extensive publisher of children's and adult books and frequently gave lectures at universities in the United Kingdom and abroad. She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1967 and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts a year later.

Early life Harrison's birth was on 23 September 1909, at the Old Thatched Cottage, Great Wymondley in Hertfordshire. Since her parents worked on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Harrison was primarily raised by relatives. She went to the Friends' School, Saffron Walden, and was heavily influenced by her history master. Harrison went on to be educated at a Belgian convent and then spent one year at Paris' Sorbonne. She did not obtain any educational degrees. She had a spell teaching English and French at some secondary schools in North London, In May 2021, a café called Molly's Café opened in Hoxton was named after her.