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| Born | Janet Elizabeth Hogarth  27 November 1865 Barton-upon-Humber |
| Died | 24 September 1954 (aged 88) |
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| Occupation | Essayist, women's rights activist, editor |
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| Spouse(s) | William Leonard Courtney |
Janet Elizabeth Courtney OBE JP (born Barton-upon-Humber, 27 November 1865; died London, 24 September 1954) was an English scholar, writer and feminist.
She was a daughter of the Revd George Hogarth and Jane Elizabeth Uppleby; sister of the archaeologist David George Hogarth. She was educated at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, 1885-1888 and was awarded a first class degree in Philosophy. Philosophy was still a male-dominated subject when Hogarth wished to study it, so that she was forced to petition the men's lecture courses for access. [1] : 75 Benjamin Jowett agreed to allow her to join classes at Balliol College, where she joined lectures on the pre-Socratics given by Richard Lewis Nettleship. [1] : 75 She had to sit at the High Table, away from the audience of male undergraduates, and was sometimes accompanied by Elizabeth Wordsworth as a chaperone, who could be heard disagreeing with the lecturer. [1] : 75 Following the Nettleship lecturers New College gave permission for Hogarth to attend lectures on Plato given by William Leonard Courtney, who would support her education by interceding with other lectures on her behalf, and later become her husband. [1] : 75
She first had a part-time teaching post at Cheltenham Ladies' College, then worked as a clerk for the Royal Commission on Labour, 1892–94; was the first superintendent of women clerks of the Bank of England, 1894-1906; Librarian of The Times Book Club, 1906-1910; and on the editorial staff of the Encyclopædia Britannica 1906-1914 and 1920-22. She was joint-editor for indexing of the 11th and 12th editions and contributed 700 of the shorter biographies for the former and signed articles on women to the latter.
In 1911 she married William Leonard Courtney, editor of the Fortnightly Review and chief dramatic critic and literary editor of the Daily Telegraph .
She was adviser on staff welfare to the Ministry of Munitions 1916-1917 and in the latter year was awarded an OBE. She was also a JP. She was a board member of the executive committee of the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust from 1913. Following the death of her husband in 1928 she became acting editor of the Fortnightly Review from November 1928 to June 1929.
She was the author of a number of books of aspects of feminism as well as several volumes of reminiscences that contain valuable insights into her working life at the Bank of England, The Times and the Encyclopædia Britannica .
As Janet Hogarth
As Janet E. Courtney
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