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Elisabeth Scott
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Elisabeth Whitworth Scott, 20 September 1898 to 19 June 1972, architect, was the designer of the 1932 Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford, England.
In 1924, when Scott entered practice, there were no prominent women architects and her selection for the project to rebuild the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre after it was destroyed by fire was only through her success (against seventy-one other entries) in an international competition. Her achievement, and her decision to employ where possible women architects to assist her on the Stratford design, was instrumental in opening up the profession to women.
Scott was a quiet, but practical, feminist and she worked through the Fawcett Society to promote the acceptance of women in the professions.
Scott was the great-niece of the renowned architect George Gilbert Scott. In 1936 she married George Richards.
- Stamp, Gavin (2004). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press.
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- "Trial flight for the Swan of Avon", Guardian, 1932-03-27. Retrieved on 2007-02-28.
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