Background
She left without completing her studies in 1890, on the death of her father, and became a school teacher.
She left without completing her studies in 1890, on the death of her father, and became a school teacher.
Elderton attended Bedford College (London) where she become involved in the eugenics movement.
In 1905 she resigned her teaching post to become Galton"s assistant. Subsequently she became Galton Scholar and Fellow and Assistant Professor at University College London. She retired in 1933. Elderton produced many reports, the most controversial of which argued that predisposition to alcoholism was largely inherited.
The book has a preface by Galton.
X. West. Palin Elderton and
R. Love (1979) Alice in Eugenics Land: Feminism and Eugenics in the Scientific Careers of Alice Lee and Ethel Elderton, Annals of Science, 36, 145-158.