Theodora Bosanquet (1880 - 1961)

Theodora Bosanquet, M.B.E. was a secretary, writer and reviewer. She listed herself in the 1911 census as an indexer of Encyclopedia Britannica, but at that time she had a more or less full-time role as the amanuensis of the novelist of Henry James, for whom she worked from 1907 until his death in 1916 – typing his dictation. She was Executive Secretary of the International Federation of University Women from 1920 to 1935 and an active suffragist.