Janet Courtney

Background

She was a daughter of the Revd George Hogarth and Jane Elizabeth Uppleby. Sister of the archaeologist David George Hogarth.

Education

She was educated at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, 1885-1888 and was awarded a first class degree in Philosophy.

Career

Professional life

She first had a part-time teaching post at Cheltenham Ladies" College, then worked as a clerk for the Royal Commission on Labour, 1892-1894. Was the first superintendent of women clerks of the Bank of England, 1894-1906. Librarian of The Times Book Club, 1906-1910.

And on the editorial staff of the Encyclopædia Britannica 1906-1914 and 1920-1922.

She was joint-editor for indexing of the 11th and 12th editions and contributed 700 of the shorter biographies for the former and signed articles on women to the latter. She was adviser on staff welfare to the Ministry of Munitions 1916-1917 and in the latter year was awarded an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. She was also a Justice of the Peace. =.

Works

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  • Free-Thinkers of the Nineteenth Century

    (A look at free-thinkers including Maurice - Bralaugh - St...)

  • Countrywomen in council: The English and Scottish women's institutes, with chapters on the movement in the dominions and on townswomen's guilds
  • (Freethinkers of the Nineteenth Century) Author: Janet E Courtney published on (July, 2007)
  • Freethinkers Of The Nineteenth Century

Politics

She was the author of a number of books of aspects of feminism as well as several volumes of reminiscences that contain valuable insights into her working life at the Bank of England, The Times and the Encyclopædia Britannica.

Membership

She was a Board member of the Executive Committee of the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust from 1913.