Lily Tobias

Lily Tobias (1887-1984) was a writer and activist.

Born in Swansea, to Polish-Jewish immigrant parents, Lily grew up in Ystalyfera in the Swansea Valley.[1]

Tobias campaigned for women's suffrage, conscientious objectors, the rights of working people and a Jewish national home in Palestine.

The aunt of poet Dannie Abse and Labour MP Leo Abse, Tobias was known in her own period as a writer of note. She wrote four novels, a collection of short stories, and the first dramatization for stage of Daniel Deronda.

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