{{Short description|British political activist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Amy Constance Morant''' (1864 – 1918) was a British political activist who moved from liberalism to socialism.
Born in Hampstead, Morant was the younger sister of Robert Laurie Morant.<ref>{{cite web |title=William Morris: in memoriam |url=http://www.morrissociety.org/JWMS/17.1Winter2006/17.1.Morant.pdf |website=The William Morris Society in the United States |accessdate=7 November 2018}}</ref> She won scholarships to study at Bedford College, London, and Newnham College, Cambridge. From 1887 to 1888, she worked with unemployed people in London,<ref>{{Cite book|last=Goldman|first=Emma|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B3zAjnDq3a4C&q=%22Amy+Morant%22&pg=PA221|title=Emma Goldman, Vol. 1: A Documentary History of the American Years, Volume 1: Made for America, 1890-1901|date=2008-07-16|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=978-0-252-07541-4|language=en}}</ref> and this led her to become involved in the Women's Liberal Federation, for which she became an organiser. She also translated a number of German works on the social sciences, and wrote her own poetry.<ref name="annual">{{cite book |title=The Labour Annual |date=1898 |publisher=Joseph Edwards |location=Wallasey |page=202}}</ref>
In the 1890s, Morant left the Liberal Party and joined both the Independent Labour Party and the Social Democratic Federation. She wrote a pamphlet about her experience, "Liberalism unveiled; or, a Creed without a Programme".<ref name="annual" />
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