Coralie Glyn



Coralie Glyn (1866 – 1928) was an English humanitarian dedicated to improving conditions for working women. She was also an author of speculative fiction novels.

Early life and family
She was born Alice Coralie Glyn in 1866, the daughter of Vice-Admiral the Hon. Henry Carr Glyn and his wife Rose, née Mahony. Her sister was Rose Riversdale Glyn, later Lady Norreys, and she had two brothers, the third and fourth barons Wolverton.

Writing and humanitarian work
Considered 'one of the newest of new women' with 'most advanced views,' she wrote on women’s rights in many contributions to periodicals, notably 'Nature’s Nuns: A Reply to Grant Allen' on the subject of marriage and motherhood. Her 1896 novel A Woman of To-Morrow imagines a world of 1996 where women have the vote and are able to become barristers.

A member of the Pioneer Club, in 1898 she founded the Camelot Club, a club with no entry fee which provided a meeting place and excursions for working women.

Her will provided the resources for fourteen bungalows to be built in Welwyn Garden City for the free use of working-class widows. This legacy was still functioning over a century later as the charity Alice Coralie Glyn Homes.

Personal life
Coralie was a keen cyclist.

Although her engagement to the inventor St George Lane Fox was announced in 1892, she never married.