Maud Pember Reeves

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Maud Pember Reeves (24 December 1865-13 September 1953) (born Magdalene Stuart Robison) was a New Zealand feminist and member of the Fabian Society.

Born in Mudgee, New South Wales, Australia, to Bank Manager William Smoult Robison, she moved to Christchurch, New Zealand in 1868. In 1855 she married the journalist and politician William Pember Reeves and became interested in socialism and women's suffragette movements.

In 1896 the family moved to London after William's appointment as Agent-General. There, the couple became friends with a number of left-wing intellectuals, such as George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, and Sidney and Beatrice Webb, and Maud joined the Fabian Society, which promoted social reform.

In 1913 Maud published a survey of poverty in Lambeth called Round About a Pound a Week. During the First World War she served on a government committee concerned with women's issues.

William and Maud had three children. Their son, Fabian Pember Reeves, was killed in the First World War, and one of their daughters, Amber Reeves, was a noted feminist writer.