Ellen Melicent Cobden
Ellen Melicent Cobden | |
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Cobden in the painting Green and Violet, Mrs. Walter Sickert by James McNeill Whistler, held at the Fogg Museum, Massachusetts | |
| Born | 18 August 1848 Manchester, Lancashire, England |
| Died | 4 September 1914 (aged 66) |
| Notable works | The Rights of Women (1879) Sylvia Saxon – Episodes in a Life (1914) |
| Spouse | Walter Richard Sickert (m. 1885, div. 1900) |
| Relatives | Richard Cobden MP (father) Anne Cobden-Sanderson (sister) Jane Cobden (sister) |
Ellen 'Nellie' Millicent Ashburner Sickert (née Cobden, 18 August 1848 – 4 September 1914), was a British writer, radical campaigner and suffragist. She supported the Irish Home Rule movement, South Africa Conciliation Committee, Women's Social and Political Union and the Women's Freedom League. She published two books and the poem The Rights of Women.