Louisa Stevenson
1835–1908
Needlework teacher and campaigner for women’s rights. Daughter of James Stevenson of Glasgow and his wife, Jane Stewart Shannan. Lived in Edinburgh, latterly with her three unmarried sisters, from 1854. Supporter of the Edinburgh Association for the University Education of Women. An honorary treasurer of the fund to pay Sophia Jex-Blake’s legal expenses in her fight for medical training for women in Edinburgh, 1871. Founder of the Edinburgh School of Cookery, 1875. In 1883, one of the first two women elected poor-law guardians in Edinburgh.
Sources
Englishwoman’s Review, March 1883, p. 112
ODNB s.v. Stevenson, Louisa; Blake, Sophia Louisa Jex-
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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