Isabella Fyvie Mayo

Isabella Fyvie Mayo
BornIsabella Fyvie
10 December 1843
London, England
Died13 May 1914(1914-05-13) (aged 70)
Aberdeen, Scotland
Pen nameEdward Garrett
Occupationpoet, novelist, suffragist, reformer
NationalityScottish
Spouse
John Ryall Mayo
(m. 1870; died 1877)
RelativesAlexander Hislop
Stephen Hislop
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Isabella Fyvie Mayo (pen name, Edward Garrett; 10 December 1843 – 13 May 1914) was a Scottish writer, poet, suffragist, and reformer. With the help of friends, Fyvie Mayo published poems and stories, using the pseudonym, Edward Garrett. Fyvie Mayo spent most of her life living in Aberdeen, where she was the first woman elected to a public board. Fyvie Mayo was described as an "ethical anarchist, pacifist, anti-imperialist and anti-racist campaigner"; and her home was said to be "an asylum for Asian Indians".