Jessey Wade

Anna Jessey Wade (2 December 1859 – 10 May 1952) was an English animal welfare campaigner, suffragette, writer, and editor. She co-founded the feminist journal Urania, was closely involved with the Humanitarian League, and worked alongside activist Ernest Bell on several publications. Wade was the founder of the Cats Protection League, now known as Cats Protection, and contributed to a range of organisations promoting animal welfare and social reform.

Wade served as secretary of the Humanitarian League's Children's Department from 1906 to 1919 and was an active member of the Women's Freedom League. She took part in the suffragette boycott of the 1911 United Kingdom census and later co-founded the National Society for the Abolition of Cruel Sports. As an author, she wrote numerous pamphlets on humane education and published The Animals' Friend Cat Book in 1917. Wade edited Little Animals' Friend and The Cats' Mews-Sheet, contributing widely to literature that sought to promote compassion towards animals. She retired in 1948 and died in London in 1952.