Feminist and publisher, born in London, UK. She studied briefly at Somerville College, Oxford (before women were allowed to take degrees at Oxford), and became a suffragette. She was arrested for trying to destroy letters inside a postbox, but was released after hunger-striking. On her father's death in 1918 she attempted to take her seat in the House of Lords, but was kept out after extensive legal proceedings. In 1920 she founded Time and Tide, a weekly journal of politics and literature, mainly publishing work that was boycotted elsewhere, such as Orwell's exposé of Stalinist repression in Republican Spain.