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Margaret Elizabeth Cousins (née Gillespie, also known as Gretta Cousins; 7 November 1878 – 11 March 1954) was an Irish-Indian educationist, suffragist and Theosophist, who established All India Women's Conference (AIWC) in 1927. [1]
Margaret Cousins (1878-1954), was a leading suffragist dynamo and radical feminist revolutionary presence in the Irish cultural revival. Her husband, James Cousins (1873-1956), was a writer in the circle of Yeats and Joyce and a life-long nationalist and cosmopolitan activist.
…of Irish-born theosophist and feminist Margaret Cousins. Nearly a decade earlier, in 1917, Cousins had helped establish the Women’s Indian Association in Madras (now Chennai), one of India’s first feminist groups.
Mar 15, 2024 · Margaret Cousins, or Gretta, as she was known among her close circle, was the one who launched Chattopadhyay into the contest for the Madras Legislative Council and stirred up a most remarkable campaign in that regard.
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Cousins, Margaret (1878–1954) Irish suffragist, theosophist, and vegetarian who immigrated to India in 1915, and was active in Indian women's and nationalist movements, and became the first woman magistrate in India. Name variations: M.E.C.; Gretta.
global irish revolution. Margaret Elizabeth Cousins (née Gretta Gillespie; 1878-1954) was born in Boyle, Co. Roscommon in western Ireland. She was a prominent leader of the Irish women’s...
May 30, 2022 · Margaret Cousins was a prolific writer. In Ireland, Britain and India she wrote letters, articles and pamphlets on theosophy, education and women’s rights, and with her husband compiled a joint autobiography, We two together.