Henrietta Edwards, Canadian activist and author (died 1931)

Henrietta Edwards

Canadian women's rights activist (1849–1931)

Henrietta Muir Edwards was a Canadian women's rights activist, author and reformer. She was the eldest of "The Famous Five", along with Emily Murphy, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney and Irene Parlby, who fought to have women recognized as "persons" under the law, and for the…