Alicia Feather
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Alicia Feather was an early fan from Anglesey in Wales in the 1930s and '40s. She likely qualifies as the first known female fan in the UK.[1]
Novae Terrae #13 (June 1937) listed new members of the SFA amongst whom were 'Miss A. Feather (Anglesey)'. In Generation Femizine, Rob Hansen asserts that she is 'the first and last British woman to be named a member of the SFA in the pages of Novae Terrae'.
She appears in the lettercolumn of The Futurian #7 (Winter 1940) and is mentioned several times in the pages of Futurian War Digest. In October 1942, a fan called W. Skelton then serving in Egypt wrote that:
I've had correspondence recently with Harold Gottliffe, and through him was second recipient of a bundle of stf sent out by the kind-hearted Alicia Feather.
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- ↑ Marion Eadie of Glasgow was active in the Junior Astronomical Association from 1933 and edited its journal Urania from 1935. However, this was technically, as the name suggests, an astronomical society rather than a science fiction organisation. See Early Femmefen.
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