Janet E. Courtney
British writer (1865–1954)
Janet Elizabeth Courtney (née Hogarth; 27 November 1865 - 24 September 1954) was an English scholar, writer and feminist. Hogarth studied philosophy and languages at Oxford University during the first decade of allowing women to study there. She was a pioneer of expanding employment opportunities in administration and public service for educated middle-class women in the two decades before World War I. Hogarth had an important role in the production of the celebrated eleventh edition of The Encyclopædia Britannica. Though considered to be a feminist for her advocacy of women's opportunities in the workplace, Hogarth actively opposed extending the vote to women.
In 1911 Hogarth married the journalist William Leonard Courtney, who had been one of her tutors at Oxford. Janet Courtney was a published author, including a biography of her late husband and a series of reminiscences detailing her academic and working life.
Biography
Early years
Janet Elizabeth Hogarth was born on 27 November 1865 at Barton-upon-Humber in North Lincolnshire, the second daughter of the Anglican minister Rev. George Hogarth and his wife Jane Elizabeth (née Uppleby). She was one of thirteen children (of whom only eight survived to maturity). Janet "spent her childhood in a quiet vicarage in an out-of-the-way Lincolnshire town".
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