ABSTRACT
Elizabeth Wolstenholme established a girls' boarding school in Congleton, Cheshire, near Manchester and began her work in women's causes by pressing for educational opportunities. She testified before the Schools Inquiry Commission in 1866, established the Manchester Board of School Mistresses, and in 1867 helped found the North of England Council on Higher Education for Women with Anne Jemima Clough and Josephine Butler. In 1867 she was one of the founding members of the Manchester Women's Suffrage Society. With Ursula Mellor Bright she headed the Married Women's Property Committee from its founding in 1868 until passage of the Married Women's Property Act of 1882.
