Florence Farr

Florence Beatrice Emery (née Farr; July 7, 1860 –April 29, 1917) is a British West End leading actress, composer and director.

Sheis also a women's rights activist, journalist, educator, singer, novelist, and leader of the occult order, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.

She is a friend and collaborator of Nobel laureate William Butler Yeats, poet Ezra Pound, playwright Oscar Wilde, artists Aubrey Beardsley and Pamela Colman Smith, Masonic scholar Arthur Edward Waite, theatrical producer Annie Horniman, and many other literati of London's fin de siècle era, and even by their standards she is "the bohemian's bohemian".

Though not as well known as some of her contemporaries and successors, Farr is a "first-wave" feminist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; she publicly advocates for suffrage, workplace equality, and equal protection under the law for women, writing a book and many articles in intellectual journals on the rights of "the modern woman".

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