Etta Lemon: The Woman Who Saved the Birds

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She saw professional ornithologists as largely unsupportive of her cause, and since much BOU activity at the time involved egg-collecting and killing birds for study and for their skins, she saw them as part of the problem she was trying to solve. This excellent book combines the history of the young RSPB’s struggle to campaign against the wearing of feathered hats with the campaign for Votes for Women in the early 20th century.

Mrs Lemon died in a Reigate nursing home in 1953, aged 92, and her granite headstone now leans lopsidedly to the right in St Mary’s cemetery. What was really interesting was the idea of women’s legacies – the Pankhurst name has become legendary, while Etta Lemon is pretty much forgotten. Support our vendors this winter and beyond If you can't visit your local vendor on a regular basis, then the next best way to support them is with a subscription to the Big Issue.of the best Surrey nature reserves to visit - Surrey Wildlife Trust manages over 80 nature reserves across the county, including heathlands, meadows, ancient woodlands, wetlands and grassland, for the benefit of people and wildlife.

Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. They had impressive organisational skills (Etta Lemon in particular), and their campaigns included both directly targeting wearers (with pamphlets and such) and even manufacturers, to trying to push through a bill for banning this cruel practice through the influential male members of the society. Osprey" was an alternative term, although these birds were unlikely to be a significant source of feathers. The title "Society for the Protection of Birds" was dismissed as "very ambitious" by one British Museum naturalist, "for a band of ladies who do nothing but abstain from personal iniquity in the matter of bonnets.

By simply embodying womanly capability with all possible dignity, Etta Lemon sent out a strong message to the local faction of the ‘shrieking sisterhood’.