Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Women's Cooperative Guild
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Sir J. M. Barrie | Without children of his own, Barrie had a habit of monopolising the children of friends, for whom he invented elaborate games. Among children so situated were Bevil Quiller-Couch
(who was later the fiancé of the... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Emily Davies | Margaret Llewelyn Davies
of the Women's Cooperative Guild
, friend of Virginia Woolf
, was ED
's niece. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Waters | Nance is almost a colourless character apart from her capacity for passion. (In an apparently non-literary book, a tradition of steamy fiction is evoked when her desire to make Kitty sorry makes her think of... |
| Occupation | Eleanor Rathbone | Rathbone and Macadam collaborated on many social and political projects, most with feminist aims. They began by stabilising the Settlement's budget and community programmes. The two then served on the founding committee of the School of Social Studies and Training for Social Work |
| Occupation | Mary Stott | This included weekly reports of the activities of the Women's Cooperative Guild
, and brought her the long-term friendship of a colleague, Nora Crossley
. Mary Waddington got the job partly by saying she had... |
| Occupation | Mary Stott | This was, she said, an astonishing appointment for her, which she would never have got except at the tail end of the war when so many good men were still in the Forces. She was... |
| politics | Eleanor Rathbone | By 1936, the Committee advocated state-sponsored lunch programmes in schools, along with the provision of milk for pregnant women and for children under school age. ER
was joined in these efforts by the Fabian Barbara Drake |
| politics | Virginia Woolf | Virginia's work consisted mainly of addressing envelopes, and she committed herself only to some weeks of this at the beginning and end of 1910. But she was also associated with the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies |
| Publishing | Evelyn Sharp | Her Daily Bread (an account of the co-operative movement and the Women's Co-operative Guild
) also appeared in 1928, from Ernest Benn
, as number six in the series Self and Society Booklets, with... |
| Residence | Constance Holme | |
Timeline
6 January 1883
Alice Acland
, in the Women's Corner column of the Co-operative News, criticised women's limited role in the Co-operative Movement.
June 1883
The Women's League for the Spread of Co-operation
, later the Women's Cooperative Guild
, was formally inaugurated at the Co-operative Congress in Edinburgh.
August 1884
The Women's Co-operative Guild
(WCG) was chosen as the new name for the Women's League for the Spread of Co-operation
.
15 April 1886
The first conference of the Women's Co-operative Guild
was held at Hooper Square, Leman Street, London.
Probably 1888
The Women's Co-operative Guild
(WCG) made its first international contact: Emilie Holyoake
spoke about the WCG at the French Co-operative congress at Tours.
1889
1889
Margaret Llewelyn Davies
, a Christian Socialist, became general secretary of the Women's Co-operative Guild
(WCG).
25 July 1889
The Women's Franchise League
, an organisation committed to including married women in future women's suffrage proposals, was formed in London by Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy
, Alice Scatcherd
, and Harriet M'Ilquham
and others.
Late 1889
An informal alliance was made between the Women's Co-operative Guild
and the recently-formed Women's Trade Union Association
, a sister organisation of working women.
1890
Men were invited for the first time to the Women's Co-operative Guild
(WCG) annual meeting, held in Glasgow.
1892
The Women's Co-operative Guild
held a festival in Manchester to mark its first decade.
1892
The Women's Co-operative Guild
(WCG) and the Women's Trade Union Association
worked to unionize factory girls.
1893
The Women's Co-operative Guild
(WCG) held its first independent Congress at Leicester.
1893
2,200 people signed the Women's Co-operative Guild
's (WCG) national petition for women's suffrage.
1896
Sarah Reddish
's paper Right of Women to Membership was read at the Women's Co-operative Guild
Annual Meeting at Burnley, as part of WCG campaign to allow women to hold personal memberships in the Co-operative Union
.