Felicia Skene in St Michael's Street - geograph.org.uk - 1323889
She was also a writer and her novels dealt with the same issues. She wrote to raise money for her favourite charities, one of which was to support 'fallen' women. In her novel 'Hidden Depths' the independent heroine's journey takes her into the unknown territory of London's brothels and madhouses; both institutions are graphically portrayed. The terrible conditions in which women live while their seducers go unpunished prompts the question 'Shall it be ever thus?' 'Shall its hideous wickedness still be ignored, glossed over made light of, as regards the destroyers, while the destroyed are branded with dishonour and driven to deeper evil by the blackest injustice that ever disgraced a Christian land?'
She was buried in St Thomass churchyard and there is a memorial plaque to her in the cathedral. She was regarded as a local saint by Oxford people of all conditions but remarked in old age: "I am like the Martyrs Memorial: everyone knows me and no-one is interested in me".Relevante Bilder
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Felicia SkeneFelicia Mary Frances Skene war eine schottische Autorin, Philanthropin und Gefängnisreformerin. Sie veröffentlichte auch unter den Pseudonymen Erskine Moir, Francis Scougal und Oxoniensis. Zahlreiche ihrer Schriften erschienen anonym. .. weiterlesen