Princess Alice of the United Kingdom papers to and from her government ministers, while the Queen secluded herself from all public life. Alice was aided in this task by her younger sister Princess Louise. Although Princess Helena, Louise's elder sister, would normally have been selected to assist, her inability to go long without crying was held against her. Alice's matrimonial plans were begun in 1860 by her mother. Queen Victoria had expressed her wish that her children should marry for love, but this did not mean that her choice of suitors would necessarily be extended to anybody outside the royal houses of Europe. Raising a British
Beatrice Greig and British Guiana Women Social Workers organized by Audrey Jeffers and the Coterie of Social Workers. In the speech, she argued that women had equal mental abilities to men and that though often subordinated and suppressed, women were ready to be integrated as equal participants in society. Greig along with Gertrude Protain and Louise Rowley of Grenada, May Farquharson and Una Marson of Jamaica, and Audrey Jeffers helped spread feminism throughout the Caribbean. She has been called one of the most important feminists of her era and her work influenced other feminists like Gema Ramkeesoon. Beatrice Greig Beatrice Greig (born