Elizabeth W. Andrew

Elizabeth W. Andrew, often listed as Elizabeth Wheeler Andrew, was an American writer and social reformer associated with the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. She wrote and traveled in support of social purity and women's rights, and her work focused especially on the treatment of women under laws and policies that enabled sexual exploitation.

She is best known as the co-author, with Katharine C. Bushnell, of The Queen’s Daughters in India (1899). That book argued against the regulation of prostitution in British India and presented their findings as part of a wider campaign against what they saw as the state sanctioning of vice.

Readers coming to her work today will find a voice shaped by religious conviction, reform politics, and first-hand investigation. Even when the language reflects its era, her writing stands out for its urgency and for the way it tried to make distant injustice impossible to ignore.