# Emily Spender

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'''Emily Spender''' (1841–1922) was an English novelist and [suffragist](/source/suffragist). 

==Biography==
Spender was born in 1841 in [Bath](/source/Bath%2C_England), England.<ref name="At the Circulating Library">{{cite web |title=Author Information: Emily Spender |url=https://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/show_author.php?aid=1034 |website=At the Circulating Library |accessdate=9 June 2019}}</ref>
She was cousin of the diarist [Henry Crabb Robinson](/source/Henry_Crabb_Robinson) and sister-in law of radical publisher [William Saunders](/source/William_Saunders_(Liberal_politician)), who placed her brother Edward Spender into a position as editor of the [Western Morning News](/source/Western_Morning_News).<ref name="Crawford">{{cite book |last1=Crawford |first1=Elizabeth |title=The women's suffrage movement: a reference guide, 1866-1928 |date=2003 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=1135434026 |page=649 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a2EK9P7-ZMsC&q=SPENDER%2C+EMILY}}</ref> She was the great-aunt of [Stephen Spender](/source/Stephen_Spender), the British poet.<ref name="E.M. Forster">{{cite web |title=E.M. Forster |url=http://www.thesuffragettes.org/map/outer-london-boroughs/hounslow/em-forster/ |website=The Suffragettes |date=22 February 2011 |accessdate=10 June 2019}}</ref>

Spender published her first two novels anonymously, first a conventional novel ''Son and Heir'' (1870), and then the feminist novel ''Restored'' (Hurst & Blackett, 1871), which was dedicated to [Lilias Sophia Hallett](/source/Lilias_Ashworth_Hallett) the leader of the Bristol society for women's suffrage.<ref name="Crawford"/> Spencer went on to write more novels including ''Kingsford: A Novel'' (1866), ''True Marriage'' (1878), ''Until the Day Breaks''  (1886), and ''A Soldier for a Day: A Story of the Italian War of Independence'' (1901).<ref name="At the Circulating Library"/>

In 1871 she was the honorary secretary of the Bath committee of the [National Society for Women's Suffrage](/source/National_Society_for_Women's_Suffrage) (NSWS). She was also part of the executive committee of the Central committee of the NSWS.<ref name="Crawford"/>

Spender died in 1922.<ref name="At the Circulating Library"/>

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