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Mona Wilson

Mona Wilson (29 May 1872 – 26 October 1954) was a British civil servant and author. Born in Hillmorton Road, Rugby to the Rev. James Wilson, headmaster of Clifton School, and Annie Elizabeth Moore, she was educated at Clifton High School, Bristol; St Leonard's School, St Andrews; and Newnham College, Cambridge.

After being appointed to the National Insurance Commission in 1911, she received a yearly salary of £1000, making her the highest-paid woman civil servant of the time and one of the first women to receive equal pay.

She wrote several scholarly works after her retirement from the civil service in 1919, including The Life of William Blake (1927), which went through several reprintings and remained popular for several decades.