Adrienne Veigele

Adrienne Veigele (French: Adrienne Veigelé; October 1862 – c. 31 May 1915) was a French-born teacher and activist for women's rights and vegetarianism who later became a naturalised British citizen. The daughter of campaigner Alexandrine Veigele, she moved with her family to London in childhood and taught French and music. Veigele contributed to the feminist periodical Shafts, held posts in the Women's Vegetarian Union, and served on the editorial and executive committees of the Vegetarian Federal Union. In 1896 she founded the Women's International Progressive Union, and later helped establish vegetarian organisations abroad, including the Société Belge pour l'étude de la réforme alimentaire in Brussels (1897) and the Dublin Society for the Study of Food Reform (1899). In her later years, she experienced ill health and financial hardship, and died by suicide in 1915.