Rachel Barrett, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Rachel Barrett

Welsh suffragette and newspaper editor

Date of Birth: 12-Nov-1874

Place of Birth: Carmarthen, Wales, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 26-Aug-1953

Profession: teacher, suffragette, political activist, newspaper editor

Nationality: Wales, United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Rachel Barrett (12 November 1874 – 26 August 1953) was a suffragette and newspaper editor born in Carmarthen, Wales.
After attending the University College of Wales in Aberystwyth she became a science teacher.
In 1906 she quit her job after hearing Nellie Martel speak on women's suffrage; she then became a member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and moved to London.
In 1907 she became an organiser for the WSPU and after Christabel Pankhurst fled to Paris, Barrett was asked to be the joint organiser of the national WSPU campaign.
In 1912, despite having no journalistic background, she was put in charge of the newly formed newspaper The Suffragette.
Barrett was arrested on more than one occasion for activities linked to the suffrage movement and between 1913 and 1914 she spent time incognito avoiding re-arrest. In her later life she was in a relationship with the Australian author I.
A.
R.
Wylie; the two of them supported Radclyffe Hall during the obscenity trial of Hall's book, The Well of Loneliness.