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Isabel Giberne Sieveking (1857–30 March 1936) was a British suffragette, historian and writer.
Family
Sieveking was born in 1857 in Epsom, Surrey, and was the youngest of the four children. She was raised as a devout Catholic.
Sieveking married timber-merchant Edward Gustavus Sieveking in 1891, who she referred to as "dear Ted". They moved to Hastings.
They had four children:
Valentine Edgar Sieveking (1892–1918)
Geoffrey Edward Sieveking (1893–1979)
Lancelot Giberne Sieveking (1896–1972)
Elinor Beatrice Sieveking (1898–1989)
She was the secretary of the local branch of the Parents' National Educational Union.
Politics
Sieveking was a suffragette and member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). She participated in the 1911 census boycott, wrote to local newspapers and got caught up in the 1913 Hastings riots when antisuffragists attacked a group of suffrage campaigners on the seafront. When Levetleigh House in St. Leonards-on-Sea was burned down by suffragettes, Sieveking was not involved, but did support the act.
Works
Sieveking was also a historian and writer who published works concerning historic individuals and the so-called Indian Mutiny of 1857:
Memoirs and Letters of Francis W. Newman, London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. (1909)
A Turning Point in the Indian Mutiny (1910), dedicated to Thomas Gisborne Gordon
Autumn Impressions of the Gironde (1910)
The Memoirs of Sir Horace Mann, London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co (1912)
The Great Postponement (1912)
She also published in academic journals such as The Antiquary.