Lizzy Lind af Hageby, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Lizzy Lind af Hageby

British activist

Date of Birth: 20-Sep-1878

Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden

Date of Death: 26-Dec-1963

Profession: opinion journalist

Nationality: Sweden, United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Lizzy Lind af Hageby

  • Emilie Augusta Louise "Lizzy" Lind af Hageby (20 September 1878 – 26 December 1963) was a Swedish-British feminist and animal rights advocate who became a prominent anti-vivisection activist in England in the early 20th century.Born to a distinguished Swedish family, Lind af Hageby and another Swedish activist enrolled at the London School of Medicine for Women in 1902 to advance their anti-vivisectionist education.
  • The women attended vivisections at University College London, and in 1903 published their diary, The Shambles of Science: Extracts from the Diary of Two Students of Physiology, which accused researchers of having vivisected a dog without adequate anaesthesia.
  • The ensuing scandal, known as the Brown Dog affair, included a libel trial, damages for one of the researchers, and rioting in London by medical students.In 1906 Lind af Hageby co-founded the Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society and later ran an animal sanctuary at Ferne House in Dorset with the Duchess of Hamilton.
  • She became a British citizen in 1912, and spent the rest of her life writing and speaking about animal protection and the link between that and feminism.
  • A skilled orator, she broke a record in 1913 for the number of words uttered during a trial, when she delivered 210,000 words and asked 20,000 questions during an unsuccessful libel suit she brought against the Pall Mall Gazette, which had criticized her campaigns.
  • The Nation called her testimony "the most brilliant piece of advocacy that the Bar has known since the day of Russell, though it was entirely conducted by a woman."

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