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Emily L. B. Forster
MSCI
Born
Emily Lydia Brady Forster

(1869-11-01)1 November 1869
Queens Park, Chester, Cheshire, England
Died4 September 1939(1939-09-04) (aged 69)
St Luke's Hospital, Chelsea, London, England
Occupations
Medical career
ProfessionDispenser

Early life and family background

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Portrait oil painting of Archibald Cochrane looking over his right shoulder. He is shown wearing a brown suit, with a cravat, against a dark brown background. He has been painted with ruddy cheeks and a bouffant hairstyle.
Forster's great-grandfather, Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald

Forster was born on 1 November 1869 at Queens Park, Chester, Cheshire, England.[1] She was the youngest daughter of Robert Cochrane Forster, a mining engineer and Fellow of the Geological Society, and Lydia Brougham, née Vaughan.[2][3]: 122  Her father was the eldest son of Sir Robert Forster, a captain in the Royal Navy, and a grandson of Archibald Cochrane, the 9th Earl of Dundonald.[4] Her mother was the fifth daughter of John Vaughan, a former vicar of St Matthew's Church, Brixton.[5][6] They had married on 8 January 1857 at St Pancras New Church, London.[6]

By 1878, her father was the managing director of copper and manganese mines at Glandore, Leap, County Cork, Ireland.[7] In December 1888, following a dramatic rise in the price of copper,[8]: 116  he reopened the Berehaven copper mines at Allihies, in the civil parish of Kilnamanagh, County Cork.[9][a] In the following year, he opened a baryte mine at Scart, County Cork, which was managed by Forster's elder brother, Robert Archibald.[9] Before his retirement from the army, her brother was a captain in the 3rd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Fusiliers.[10] Forster's elder sister, Annie Jane, married William Vernon Shone, a medical practitioner, on 17 March 1891 at Glenelg, a suburb of Adelaide in South Australia.[2] They divorced in 1908 and she returned to England to live in Denham, Buckinghamshire.[11][12]

Career

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THE MANAGEMENT OF A DISPENSARY Lady Roberts’ Home,Murree


By 1899, Forster was the lecturer in charge of the women's department at the Westminster College of Chemistry and Pharmacy, and was writing a series of articles for the Nursing Record on how to become a pharmacist.[13] Forster was analyst at the Metallurgical Laboratory at King's College, London, so was well qualified to speak on medical and scientific topics. She was also representative of women who were moving into what had previously been male areas of work.[14]: 812 

Miss E. L. B. Forster, 20, Mount Ararat Road, Richmond, Surrey.[15]

Monochrome photograph of the Victorian college building. The building is shown standing at the corner of Trinity Street in Southwark, with four chimneys, an arched portal, and windows to the side.
Westminster College of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Trinity Street, Southwark

Chemical congress https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2iZPAQAAIAAJ&q=e.+l.+b.+forster+London+University&dq=e.+l.+b.+forster+London+University&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjDibrunoOJAxX_ZUEAHfFiDlgQ6AF6BAgLEAI

https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951000636784z?urlappend=%3Bseq=821%3Bownerid=13510798902846604-847 Elected a member of the Society of Chemical Industry on 24 July 1901. Volume 20 No 7July 1901 The Morgan Crucible Company at Battersea.

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=pxG4wxWLMc0C&q=%22Westminster+College+of+Chemistry%22+%22forster%22&dq=%22Westminster+College+of+Chemistry%22+%22forster%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwio1Ifb9P6IAxUPX_EDHfrIBRw4ChDoAXoECAgQAg None failed their exams https://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101079672562?urlappend=%3Bseq=546

https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.3463/page/n1505. Moved (in December 1903) to King's College from the Morgan Crucible Co at Battersea: https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.3463/page/n141 Elected a member in 1901


[16] https://www.rsc.org/news-events/features/2018/oct/a-time-for-action/#:~:text=Between%20them%2C%20around%2070%20men,and%20her%20ally%20Ida%20Smedley.

At the end of World War I, Forster volunteered in the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) for the British Red Cross.[17]


Table of published books
Year Title Publisher Notes
1917 How to Become a Dispenser T. Fisher Unwin
1918 How to Become a Woman Doctor Charles Griffin & Company
1922 Lloyd's A.B.C. of Careers for Girls United Press Stella Wolfe Murray
1926 Vegetarian Cookery Book W. Foulsham & Company


"One suspects that underneath the vegetarian cookbooks' theories about vegetarianism runs a feminist desire to free women from the kitchen. Emily Forster in her Vegetarian Cookery in 1917 stated: 'Some of the choicest dishes need but little cooking, while it is possible to get a very satisfactory meal without any cooking at all, surely an advantage when the problem of how to curtail labour is one that the housewife has to face'."[18]: 148 

https://archive.org/details/b19974760M2057/page/50

In 1908, by Miss E. L. B. Forster leading the group at King's College, and supported by the late Canon Driscoll, then Headmaster of the Cardinal Vaughan School.[19] By December 1920, Forster was elected honorary secretary to committee of the University of London Catholic Students' Association. Hilaire Belloc served as president to the committee.[20] Catholic vice president [21] [22] It had been founded in 1908 by Miss E. L. B. Forster leading the group at King's College, and supported by the late Canon Driscoll, then Headmaster of the Cardinal Vaughan School.[19]

In 1923, Forster became one of the first radio broadcasters on the radio station 2LO, operated by the British Broadcasting Company at Savoy Place in the City of Westminster. She gave three talks on vocational careers for women, which were transmitted in the Woman's Hour slot, between 13 September to 11 October 1923.[14]: 812  Her first transmission discussed the skills required to become a radiologist.[23] Her second talk was broadcast on 20 September 1923,[24] in which she considered the entry requirements and training to become an optician.[14]: 812  She thought it was "absolutely necessary to be fully qualified, and to become so, the examination of either the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers, ... or else the British Optical Association must be passed."[25]

Forster's last presentation was on the topic of analytical chemistry that was based on her book, Analytical Chemistry as a Profession for Women, published in 1920.[26] She wrote in the preface that "women engaged in the somewhat monotonous work of school teaching are turning their attention to 'practical scientific work'."[27] A month later, Forster wrote an article for the Nottingham Journal, describing how it felt to broadcast from the 2LO studio:[28]

Instinctively you feel as if you were in a magic chamber. The whole studio is draped in blue. At first sight it appears empty except for a weird‑looking stand in the centre of the room with a chair in front of it (but presently you notice a few blue settees against the blue walls). Sitting in front of the weird‑looking stand, that you know is the microphone, is a speaker ... you have a hazy idea of wood, canvas, wires, and a flat piece of metal; you have a sort of friendly feeling for that bit of metal, and you just talk to it.

In September 1978, Frank Gillard interviewed Cecil Arthur Lewis, for the "Oral History of the BBC" project that was run jointly between the BBC and the University of Sussex. In the interview, Lewis stated that he was pleased that the nascent British Broadcasting Company had aired Forster's talk on analytical chemistry, as it foreshadowed the Open University.[29]

Later life

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From the 1920s, Forster's published recipes for perfume and beauty treatments in the "Tea Table Talk" column of the Daily Express.[30] She returned to writing about these treatments in later life; she wrote articles for a supplement of The Farmer and Stockbreeder journal, published by the NFU, on how to prepare skin, hands, and hair for a party. These articles were reprinted in Dalgety's Review, a weekly pastoral journal, published by the Dalgety & Company Limited in Western Australia.[31]

https://reader.exacteditions.com/issues/72234/page/4

By May 1928, Forster was living in Fulham road, South Kensington.[32] As honorary secretary to the University of London Catholic Society,[33]: 3  she was elected an officer to the council of the University of London Animal Welfare Society (ULAWS).[34]: 170  She remained a council member until her death on 4 September 1939, aged 69,[35] the day after Britain declared war on Germany.[36] Formerly of Cromwell Mews, Old Brompton, she died at St Luke's Hospital, Chelsea,[37] and a Requiem was held on 8 September 1939 at Brompton Oratory.[35] Her estate was administered by Winifrede Mignon Barrett‑Lennard, the wife of Fiennes Barrett-Lennard.[37] An updated edition of her book Everybody's Vegetarian Cookery, which included a new chapter on wartime foods, was published posthumously in 1942.[18]: 148 

Publications

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Books

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  • Forster, Emily Lydia Brady (1917). How to Become a Dispenser. The New Profession for Women. London: T. Fisher Unwin. pp. 1–98. hdl:2027/wu.89102062452. OCLC 9547845.
  • Forster, Emily Lydia Brady (1918). How to Become a Woman Doctor. William James Fenton. London: Charles Griffin & Company. pp. 1–134. OCLC 14785254. Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  • Forster, Emily Lydia Brady (1920). Analytical Chemistry as a Profession for Women. Walter Francis Reid. London: Charles Griffin & Company. pp. 1–125. OCLC 559001091.
  • Forster, Emily Lydia Brady (1926). Vegetarian Cookery Book. No. 52 in Foulsham's Cloth‑bound Pocket Library (1st ed.). London: W. Foulsham & Company. pp. 1–121. OCLC 18781020. Cover title: Everybody's Vegetarian Cookery Book. Spine title: Vegetarian Cookery Book.
  • Forster, Emily Lydia Brady (1942) [First published 1926]. Everybody's Vegetarian Cookery Book. No. 52 in Foulsham's Cloth‑bound Pocket Library (2nd ed.). London: W. Foulsham & Company. pp. 1–128. OCLC 314584755. Published posthumously. Revised and enlarged edition including a special chapter on wartime foods.
  • Forster, Emily Lydia Brady; Murray, Stella Wolfe; Marshall, Arthur Courland; et al. (1922). Lloyd's A.B.C. of Careers for Girls. An Enquire Within upon Every Profession and Calling Open to Women. London: United Press. pp. 1–192. OCLC 823212873. Arranged alphabetically and in sections and including special articles by Emily L. B. Forster.

Journal and magazine articles

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Anaesthetics, poisons, and medicinal Herbs

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Beauty treatments

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Careers for women

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Dispensing

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Wartime

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See also

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Footnotes

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  1. ^ In 1888, Eugène Secrétan attempted to corner the market in copper, however, the price collapsed in the following year.[8]: 116 

References

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  1. ^ "Births". Cheshire Observer. Vol. 19, no. 945. Chester. 6 November 1869. p. 4. OCLC 1119849997. Retrieved 1 October 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  2. ^ a b "Marriages". The Lancet. 37 (3530). London: 969. 25 April 1891. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(02)00044-2. hdl:2027/iau.31858021446970. ISSN 0140-6736. Published originally as Volume 1, Number 3530.
  3. ^ Rayner‑Canham, Marelene F.; Rayner‑Canham, Geoffrey (2020). "4. London Co‑educational Colleges". Pioneering British Women Chemists: Their Lives and Contributions. London: World Scientific Publishing Europe. pp. 107–136. ISBN 978-1-78634-770-1. OCLC 1124793258.
  4. ^ "Deaths". Daily Mirror. No. 532. London. 17 July 1905. p. 2. OCLC 11996384. Retrieved 1 October 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. ^ "Police Intelligence. The Rev. Dr. John Vaughan". The Illustrated Times Weekly Newspaper. Vol. 1, no. 24. London. 17 November 1855. p. 390. OCLC 265551591. Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  6. ^ a b "Married". Morning Post. No. 25907. London. 12 January 1857. p. 8. OCLC 72823345. Retrieved 1 October 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  7. ^ Forster, Robert Cochrane (14 December 1878). "Steam Engine". Cork Constitution. Vol. 58, no. 11406. p. 4. OCLC 18131909. Retrieved 11 October 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  8. ^ a b Burch, Nigel (2017). "3. Tamar Copper and the Statue of Liberty". Lost Mines of the Tamar. Beaconsfield: Nigel Burch Publishing. p. 103–136. ISBN 978-0-9873713-4-8. OCLC 98542326.
  9. ^ a b "Mining Operations in West Cork". Evening Irish Times. Vol. 30, no. 9807. Dublin. 3 December 1888. p. 3. OCLC 751662905. Retrieved 11 October 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  10. ^ "Marriages". Pall Mall Budget. Vol. 33, no. 851. London. 16 January 1885. p. 32. hdl:2027/coo.31924067323414. OCLC 10741463.
  11. ^ "Shone v. Shone". Daily Post. Vol. 1, no. 156. Hobart. 25 November 1908. p. 7. ISSN 2203-7012. OCLC 959921942. Retrieved 11 October 2024 – via Trove.
  12. ^ "Uxbridge and District News". Buckinghamshire Advertiser. Vol. 96, no. 5061. Uxbridge. 8 October 1937. p. 9. ISSN 0964-3672. OCLC 1063420484. Retrieved 1 October 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  13. ^ "Personalities". The Chemist and Druggist. 56 (1041). London: Edward Halse: 9. 6 January 1900. ISSN 0009-3033. OCLC 869754553. Retrieved 1 October 2024. "Series number 1041.
  14. ^ a b c Murphy, Kate (19 September 2023). "'Careers for women': BBC women's radio programmes and the 'professional', 1923–1955" (PDF). Women's History Review. 32 (6). Fern Barrow: Routledge: 809–827. doi:10.1080/09612025.2022.2138018. ISSN 0961-2025. OCLC 10310014627. 37813. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 October 2024. Retrieved 2 October 2024.
  15. ^ "Comments and Replies". The Nursing Record and Hospital World (PDF). 28 (732). London: Royal British Nurses' Association: 304. 12 April 1902. OCLC 614902122. Archived from the original on 7 October 2024. Retrieved 7 October 2024. Miss E. L. B. Forster, 20, Mount Ararat Road, Richmond, Surrey.
  16. ^ Beveridge, Heather H.; Boyle, Mary; Burke, K. A.; Chick, Frances; et al. (representative women chemists) (5 February 1909). Crookes, William (ed.). "Correspondence. Women and the Fellowship of the Chemical Society". Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science. 99 (2567). London: Edwin John Davey: 70–71. OCLC 490166608. Retrieved 2 October 2024.
  17. ^ "Voluntary Aid Detachments. Emily L. B. Forster". vad.redcross.org.uk. London: British Red Cross. May 1918. 77270. Archived from the original on 2 October 2024. Retrieved 2 October 2024.
  18. ^ a b Adams, Carol J. (1977) [First published 1975]. "The Oedible Complex: Feminism and Vegetarianism". In Covina, Gina; Galana, Laurel (eds.). The Lesbian Reader. Amazon Quarterly Anthology. Berkeley: Amazon Press. pp. 145–152. OCLC 3433619. Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  19. ^ a b "University of London Catholic Society. 'Coming of Age' Meeting". The Tablet. 156 (4723). London: 646. 15 November 1930. ISSN 0039-8837. OCLC 265129712. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
  20. ^ Ryan, Eileen E. (December 1920). "University of London Catholic Students' Society". University College Magazine. Vol. 1, no. 4. London: University College London. p. 221. JSTOR community.38303737?seq=56. OCLC 1172150573.
  21. ^ "University of London Catholic Society". The Tablet. 144 (4408). London: 568. 1 November 1924. ISSN 0039-8837. OCLC 265129712. Retrieved 2 October 2024 – via Exact Editions.
  22. ^ "University of London Catholic Society". The Tablet. 145 (4428). London: 387. 21 March 1925. ISSN 0039-8837. OCLC 265129712. Retrieved 2 October 2024 – via Exact Editions.
  23. ^ "Broadcasting. Today's Programmes". The Daily Telegraph. No. 21339. London. 13 September 1923. p. 11. ISSN 0307-1235. OCLC 1081089956. Retrieved 1 October 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  24. ^ "Broadcasting. Today's Programmes". The Daily Telegraph. No. 21345. London. 20 September 1923. p. 11. ISSN 0307-1235. OCLC 1081089956. Retrieved 1 October 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  25. ^ Forster 21 December 1923, p. 401.
  26. ^ "Women's Hour. Careers — Analytical Chemistry, by Miss Emily L. B. Forster". Radio Times. Vol. 1, no. 2. London: British Broadcasting Company. 11 October 1923. p. 51. ISSN 0961-8872. OCLC 265408915. Archived from the original on 2 October 2024. Retrieved 2 October 2024.
  27. ^ Rae, Ian David (July 2018). "Letter from Melbourne: Emily's career advice". Chemistry in Australia. Melbourne: Informit for the Royal Australian Chemical Institute: 41. ISSN 0314-4240. OCLC 699879713. Archived from the original on 2 October 2024. Retrieved 2 October 2024.
  28. ^ Forster 16 November 1923, p. 4.
  29. ^ Lewis, Cecil Arthur; Gillard, Frank (28 September 1978). "The Oral History of the BBC. Interview with Cecil Lewis". connectedhistoriesofthebbc.org. BBC and Arts and Humanities Research Council. Falmer: University of Sussex. Archived from the original on 15 October 2024. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
  30. ^ "Tea Table Talk. A Woman Chemist". Daily Express. No. 6226. London. 20 March 1920. p. 3. ISSN 0307-0174. OCLC 173337077. Retrieved 12 October 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  31. ^ Dalgety's Review 24 December 1935, p. 7; Dalgety's Review 30 January 1936, p. 5.
  32. ^ "Catholic Education Notes". The Tablet. 151 (4594). London: 710. 26 May 1928. ISSN 0039-8837. OCLC 265129712. Retrieved 2 October 2024 – via Exact Editions.
  33. ^ Hobday, Frederick Thomas George, ed. (1936). "Officers of ULAWS". Annual Report. Vol. 10. University of London Animal Welfare Society. London: University of London Press. pp. 2–4. OCLC 978360991. Retrieved 14 October 2024 – via James B. Hunt Jr. Library. 1 October 1935 to 31 July 1936.
  34. ^ Knight, Clara Millicent; Hume, Charles Westley, eds. (1931). "Appendix: The University of London Animal Welfare Society". The Animal Year Book. Vol. 1. University of London Animal Welfare Society. London: University of London Press. pp. 168–173. OCLC 5298590. Retrieved 14 October 2024 – via James B. Hunt Jr. Library.
  35. ^ a b "Deaths". The Times. No. 48405. London. 8 September 1939. p. 1. ISSN 0140-0460. Gale CS17249576.
  36. ^ "History of the BBC. Anniversaries. Chamberlain announces Britain is at war with Germany". bbc.com. London: BBC Online. 2024. Archived from the original on 30 September 2024. Retrieved 4 October 2024.
  37. ^ a b "Probate record for Emily Lydia Brady Forster" (PDF). probatesearch.service.gov.uk. London: Probate Service. 28 September 1939. p. 445. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 October 2024. Retrieved 1 October 2024.

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