Emilia Francis Strong, better known as Emilia, Lady Dilke, was a British author, art historian, feminist, suffragist and trade unionist.
Occupation
art historian, journalist, activist, trade unionist
Citizenship
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Born
September 2, 1840, 1840
Died
October 23, 1904, 1904
Overview
Emilia Francis Strong (2 September 1840, Ilfracombe, Devon – 23 October 1904), better known as Lady Dilke, was a British author, art historian, feminist and trade unionist.
Biography
Emilia Francis Strong, the daughter of Henry and Emily Weedon Strong, was called by her middle name, with its masculine spelling, during her childhood and youth. She was raised in Iffley, near Oxford, and attended the South Kensington Art School in London in her late teens.
She married Mark Pattison, Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, in 1861; she was then known as Francis Pattison, Mrs. Mark Pattison, or, in some of her publications, as E. F. S. Pattison.
After Mark Pattison's death in 1884, she married Sir Charles Dilke, and was subsequently known as Lady Dilke or Emilia Dilke. Both of her marriages were topics of some public discussion.
