‘Photograph of Edith Morley in her College gowns’, c.1893. Pic by University of Reading Professor Edith Julia Morley MBE was a professor of English Language at the University of Reading, and is credited with being the first female professor in Britain. Aside from her own career successes, she was also an active supporter of the a number of Suffragette campaigns, and a member of the British socialist organisation The Fabian Society. In 1950 she was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE), which was awarded for her work setting up the Reading Refugee Committee, and ass...