Suzanne Rouviere Day (1876â€"1964) was an Irish feminist, novelist and
playwright. She founded the Munster Women's Franchise League, was one
of Cork's first women poor-law guardians and served a support role in
both World Wars.Day was born in Cork, Ireland in 1876 to Robert and
Rebecca Day. Her father Robert ran a Saddler and Ironmonger business
and was a well known antiquarian and photographer.[1]In 1910 she
formed the local Irish Women's Franchise League branch in Cork as an
activist group for women's suffrage.[2] The following year she left
that group and founded the non-militant Munster Women's Franchise
League. Her new interest in politics led to her winning the election
of poor-law guardians the same year.[3] Her later writings reveal that
she saw the Cork workhouses as an expensive self-perpetuating evil run
by amateurs. This led to her first novel.[4] From 1913 to 1917 she
wrote three plays for the Abbey Theatre in collaboration with
Geraldine Cummins, the most successful of which was the comedy Fox and
Geese (1917).[5][6]
playwright. She founded the Munster Women's Franchise League, was one
of Cork's first women poor-law guardians and served a support role in
both World Wars.Day was born in Cork, Ireland in 1876 to Robert and
Rebecca Day. Her father Robert ran a Saddler and Ironmonger business
and was a well known antiquarian and photographer.[1]In 1910 she
formed the local Irish Women's Franchise League branch in Cork as an
activist group for women's suffrage.[2] The following year she left
that group and founded the non-militant Munster Women's Franchise
League. Her new interest in politics led to her winning the election
of poor-law guardians the same year.[3] Her later writings reveal that
she saw the Cork workhouses as an expensive self-perpetuating evil run
by amateurs. This led to her first novel.[4] From 1913 to 1917 she
wrote three plays for the Abbey Theatre in collaboration with
Geraldine Cummins, the most successful of which was the comedy Fox and
Geese (1917).[5][6]
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