Also known as
Mrs Julian R. Ashton,
Eliza Ann Pugh
Wife of Julian Ashton, journalist and mother of five, Eliza wrote an article for the Centennial Magazine arguing that women were not fitted to be either rulers or slaves to men but rather companions.
journalist, married Julian Ashton on 1 August 1876 at Dalston English Presbyterian Church, Hackney; their son Julian Howard was born at Islington on 9 August 1877. She and Howard accompanied Julian to Melbourne, arriving in the Cuzco in June 1878. Their second son Percival George (Percy) was born in Melbourne in 1879; daughter Bertha (b.1882 at Fitzroy); son Rupert (b.1885), who died of meningitis aged nine (c.1895). The youngest son Arthur Rossi (born 1886) was killed in action in WWI. As 'Mrs Julian R. Ashton’ Eliza wrote 'Our Girls’, published in the Centennial Magazine vol.1 no.11 (June 1889), pp.808-12 (not illustrated), which argued that women were not fitted to be either rulers or slaves but companions to men.
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