Animal Rights and Public Wrongs

This is the first biography of Lizzy Lind af Hageby, a unique study of an engaging and humanitarian woman who had an enormous influence on the cause of animal rights all over the world. Lizzy Lind af Hageby (1878-1963) was a wealthy Swedish philanthropist who took British citizenship and became an influential Edwardian animal rights activist. A prolific author and lecturer on topics ranging from music and vegetarianism to spiritualism and talking animals, she and a tight-knit group of lifelong friends transformed the way non-human animals are treated in laboratories, farming and transport. Among her many achievements, she co-authored with Leisa Schartau The Shambles of Science (1903), a sensational cause-célèbre which exposed the cruelty of vivisection as it was practised in hospital teaching laboratories was the first woman to plead her own case in an English court of law, having sued a leading journal for libel established the Bureau International Humanitaire Zoophile in Geneva, a campaigning animal protection organization, which influenced the proceedings of the League of Nations set up the Purple Cross Society to care for horses injured on the battlefield in two world wars became an expert on the Swedish dramatist, August Strindberg, publishing the first biography of him shortly after his death co-founded, with the Duchess of Hamilton, the Ferne Animal Sanctuary in Dorset, to which dogs and other animals were evacuated in World War II. This sanctuary has never closed opened a sanatorium in the South of France in 1916 to treat wounded soldiers. It remained open as a treatment centre for deprived and orphaned children met talking dogs; condemned vaccination and premature burial; was a leading spiritualist and Theosophist, and a believer in natural healing