This biography is republished from The London School of Economics and Political Science and was written by LSE Archivist Sue Donnelly. Shared by permission in line with Creative Commons ‘Attribution’ (CC BY) licencing.
Born: 10 February 1905, United Kingdom (assumed)
Died: 5 May 1905
Country most active: United Kingdom
Also known as: NA
Mary Hankinson (1868-1952): a founder member of the Fabian Women’s group, suffragist and gymnastics teacher, she was president of the Gymnastics Teachers Suffrage Society. In 1924 George Bernard Shaw gave Mary Hankinson a copy of St Joan inscribed “To Mary Hankinson, the only woman I known who does not believe she was the model for St Joan and also the only woman who actually was.”