This article is about the suffragist and elocutionist. For the French opera singer and nurse, see
Nelly Martyl.
Australian suffragist, 1855–1940
Ellen Alma "Nellie" Martel |
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Nellie_Martel.jpg/220px-Nellie_Martel.jpg) Postcard of Mrs. Nellie Alma Martel c. 1906 |
Born | Ellen Alma Charleston (1855-09-30)30 September 1855
Beacon,England |
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Died | 11 August 1940(1940-08-11) (aged 84)
London, England |
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Nationality | English-Australian |
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Occupation | Suffragist |
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Spouse |
Charles Martel
( m. 1885; died in 1935) |
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Ellen Alma Martel, (née Charleston; 30 September 1855 – 11 August 1940) was an English-Australian suffragist and elocutionist.[1] She stood for the Senate at the 1903 federal election, one of the first four women to stand for federal parliament.