Social worker and author. Born Margaret Elizabeth Noble, in Dungannon, County Tyrone. She came to London, where in 1895 she met Swami Vivekananda. She became his follower and travelled to India with him. Here she opened a girls' school in Calcutta, and assisted in relief work, particularly during the bubonic plague epidemic in 1899. She wrote many books including 'The Web of Indian Life', which sought to rectify many myths in the western world about Indian culture and customs.
From : "Elizabeth Noble had opened a school at Wimbledon. Swami Vivekananda had visited the school in 1895 and appreciated her teaching techniques. Margaret in those days had started a pre-school system for the kids. She was the secretary of Sesame Club where British intellectuals of those days like Bernard Shaw, Bertrand Russell, Sydney and Beatrice Webb, D H Lawrence were frequent visitors and delivered lectures. Margaret became famous as a teacher in England and she also wrote for several English newspapers. She came to Kolkata following an invitation from Swami Vivekananda in 1898. She opened a school at 16, Bosepara Lane in north Kolkata for girls belonging to middle-class families. She faced stiff opposition from Hindu conservative families who believed that their daughters would either become widows or would be difficult to get them get married if they were sent to a school run by an English."
Died in Darjeeling.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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