Isabel Emma Priestley (died 28 July 1927) was a British journalist and socialist activist. Priestley was the daughter of Major Arthur Gore Priestley and Emma ''née'' Righy.Henry Biddall Swanzy, ''The Families of French of Belturbet and Nixon of Fermanagh and Their Descendants'' (Dublin, 1908), p. 56 Priestley worked for the '' Review of Reviews'' in the early 1890s, then from 1892 for the

Fabian Society The Fabian Society is a British socialist organisation whose purpose is to advance the principles of social democracy and democratic socialism via gradualist and reformist effort in democracies, rather than by revolutionary overthrow. The F ...

in 1892. In 1893, she also joined the Fabians as a member and, although she moved to work for '' The Sun'' in 1895, she served on the executive of the Fabian Society from 1896 until 1898. In October 1897, Priestley married Bart Kennedy.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Priestley, Isabel Year of birth missing 1927 deaths English journalists Members of the Fabian Society