Also let's not forget Olga Nethersole's role in setting up the People's League for Health - a pioneer of patient activism on behalf of impoverished pregnant women.
A Victorian/Edwardian actress of formidable presence crying out for good biographer. Lived from 1860s to 1950s. @reinarz.bsky.social

Two brilliant young novelists met up in the last year of Queen Victoria's reign to write a dizzying satire on the stupidities of imperialism.
Their subject: the takeover of Greenland.