Rachel Barrett
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| Born | 12 November 1875 Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales |
| Died | 26 August 1953 (aged 77) Faygate, Sussex, England |
| Occupation | teacher political organiser editor |
Rachel Barrett (12 November 1874 – 26 August 1953) was a suffragette and newspaper editor born in Carmarthen, Wales. After attending the University College of Wales in Aberystwyth she became a science teacher. In 1906 she quit her job after hearing Nellie Martel speak on women's suffrage; she then became a member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and moved to London. In 1907 she became an organiser for the WSPU and after Christabel Pankhurst fled to Paris, Barrett was asked to be the joint organiser of the national WSPU campaign. In 1912, despite having no journalistic background, she was put in charge of the newly formed newspaper The Suffragette. Barrett was arrested on more than one occasion for activities linked to the suffrage movement and between 1913 and 1914 she spent time incognito avoiding re-arrest.
In her later life she was in a relationship with the Australian author I. A. R. Wylie; the two of them supported Radclyffe Hall during the obscenity trial of Hall's book, The Well of Loneliness.
Barrett was born in Carmarthen in 1874 to Rees Barrett, a land and road surveyor, and his second wife Anne Jones, both Welsh-speakers. She grew up in the town of Llandeilo with her elder brother Rees and a younger sister, Janette. By the 1881 Census, her mother Anne was the lone adult living at their address on Alan Road, her father having died in 1878. Barrett was educated at a boarding school in Stroud, along with her sister, and won a scholarship to the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. She graduated in 1904 with an external London BSc degree and became a science teacher. She taught in Llangefni, Carmarthen and Penarth.
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