Margrieta Beer

Born in 1871 and remembered in a memoir published after her death, Margrieta Beer is best known as the author of Schopenhauer, a concise study of the German philosopher that has remained accessible enough to be preserved and reissued through public-domain archives and modern editions.

The surviving record also shows that her interests reached well beyond philosophy. Library and archival sources connect her with essays on women's work and social policy, including pieces titled Apprenticeship and Skilled Employment and Sick Insurance for Women. Other records place her among Manchester women active in suffrage-era networks, alongside figures such as Eva Gore-Booth, Esther Roper, and Kate King-May.

She died in 1951. Much of what is easily verifiable today comes from catalog records, archival references, and later memoir material, but even that brief trail suggests a life shaped by ideas, public engagement, and practical concern for women's opportunities.