Anglo-Australian suffragette, novelist and screenwriter Ida Alexa Ross (I. A. R.) Wylie was BOTD in 1885. Born in Melbourne, Australia to English parents, her family moved to London when she was three. Largely home-educated, she spent three years at finishing school in Belgium. Returning to England in 1911, she published a number of popular non-fiction books about pre-World War One Germany. An active member of the suffragette movement, she had a relationship with Suffragette editor Rachel Barrett, and provided safehouses for women recovering from prison hunger strikes. In 1917, she and Barrett toured America by motor car, settling in Hollywood where she sold her short stories to film studios. Over 30 movies were made based on Wylie’s work, including Keeper of the Flame starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Wylie later had a relationship with pioneering American surgeon and public health campaigner Sara Josephine Baker, settling on a farm in New Jersey during the 1930s. In her 1940 biography My Life With George: An Unconventional Autobiography, she described her life with her male alter ego “George” and admitted to preferring women to men. She continued writing and publishing until her death in 1959, aged 74.