Margaret Caroline Llewelyn Davies was born in 1861. She was the niece of Emily Davies and studied at Girton College 1881-1883 but left before taking the Tripos. She was a keen socialist, pacifist and internationalist and was General Secretary of the Women's Co-operative Guild 1889-1921. She published pamphlets on social and political questions and edited two collections of letters from working women, 'Maternity and Life as we have known it' and 'The Women's Co-operative Guild', 1883-1904.
From the guide to the Personal Papers of Llewellyn Davies, 1874-1894, (Girton College Library, University of Cambridge)