Isabella Fyvie Mayo

Isabella Fyvie Mayo

Isabella Fyvie Mayo was a Scottish writer, poet, suffragist, and reformer. With the help of friends, Fyvie Mayo published poems and stories, using the pseudonym, Edward Garrett. Fyvie Mayo spent most of her life living in Aberdeen, where she was the first woman elected to a public board. Fyvie Mayo was described as an "ethical anarchist, pacifist, anti-imperialist and anti-racist campaigner"; and her home was said to be "an asylum for Asian Indians".