Louise Lind-af-Hageby

Emilie Augusta Louise "Lizzy" Lind-af-Hageby (1878–December 26, 1963), usually known as Louise or Lizzy, was a Swedish countess, feminist and animal rights advocate. [http://www.animaldefencetrust.org/history.php "History"] , Animal Defence Trust, retrieved December 11, 2007]

Lind-af-Hageby, who moved to Britain to study medicine in or around 1900, was best known as president of the "Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society", which she founded in 1903.Ryder, Richard D. "Animal Revolution: Changing Attitudes Towards Speciesism", p. 135.] [Note founding date discrepancy between Ryder (1906) and the ADT official website (1903).] She was also president of the London Spiritualist Alliance from 1935 until 1943.Phillimore, Mercy. [http://www.anna-kingsford.com/english/Other_Related_Works/Texts/OOR-I-EmilieAugusta.htm "Emilie Augusta Louise Lind-af-Hageby"] , Light, Vol. LXXXIV, nº. 3.456, 1964.]

She first came to public attention in 1903 with the publication of "The Shambles of Science", in which she and a fellow anti-vivisectionist wrote about the practice of vivisection at University College, London, alleging dogs were operated on and dissected without anaesthesia, in front of audiences of medical students. The book, based on her diary as a student at the London School of Medicine for Women, led to the Brown Dog affair, a political controversy about vivisection in England that raged from 1903 until 1910. The affair led to the British government setting up a royal commission on vivisection, and the introduction of new legislation.

ee also

*Brown Dog affair

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Further reading

*Gålmark, Lisa "Women Antivivisectionists, The Story of Lizzy Lind af Hageby and Leisa Schartau. Sydney: D. Russell, 2000
*Elston, M.A. [http://oxforddnb.com/index/101040998/ "Lind-af-Hageby, (Emilie Augusta) Louise (1878–1963)"] , "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", first published Sept 2004 (requires subscription).