Florence Farr
Florence Beatrice Emery (''
née''
Farr; 7 July 1860 – 29 April 1917) was a British
West End leading actress,
composer and director. She was also a women's rights activist, journalist, educator, singer, novelist, and leader of the occult order, the
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. She was a friend and collaborator of
Nobel laureate
William Butler Yeats, poet
Ezra Pound, playwright
Oscar Wilde, artists
Aubrey Beardsley and
Pamela Colman Smith, Masonic scholar
Arthur Edward Waite, theatrical producer
Annie Horniman, and many other literati of London's ''
fin de siècle'' era, and even by their standards she was "the bohemian's
bohemian". Though not as well known as some of her contemporaries and successors, Farr was a
"first-wave" feminist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries; she publicly advocated for
suffrage, workplace equality, and equal protection under the law for women, writing a book and many articles in intellectual journals on the rights of "the new woman".
Provided by Wikipedia
-
1
