Annie Lowe (1834–1910) was a suffragist in Victoria,

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...

. She and

Henrietta Dugdale Henrietta Augusta Dugdale ( Worrell; 14 May 1827 – 17 June 1918) was a pioneer Australian who initiated the first female suffrage society in Australia. Non-conformist, provocative and quick-witted, her campaigning resulted in breakthroughs ...

founded the Victorian Women's Suffrage Society (the suffragettes) in 1884, the first organisation of this kind to be established in Australia.

Biography

Lowe née Hopkins was born in 1834. Her father was involved with establishing universal suffrage for men in New South Wales. She moved to Victoria with her husband Josiah Alexander Lowe. In 1884 she helped found the Victorian Women's Suffrage Society. She was known for her public speaking. She lived to see the women of Victoria given the right to vote in 1908, but died before being able to vote in the 1911 state election. Upon her death ''The Herald'' newspaper reported that in Lowe 'will be written in our history as the mother of our suffrage movement'.

References

1834 births 1910 deaths People from the Colony of Victoria Australian suffragists {{Activist-stub