Women's Liberal Federation

IOF gave her first public speech when she decided to support striking female weavers in Leeds in October 1888. Despite her nervousness—she sometimes characterized herself as terrified by the faces gazing at me—expressing...

The paper ran for about two years, issuing its final number under this title on 27 December 1890 and then on 3 January 1891 reappearing as the The Woman's Herald. HB remained as...

MC wrote to the Times again on a more delicate subject: to oppose the plan of the Women's Social and Political Union to sabotage a meeting of the Women's Liberal Federation .

Much of LOC 's life was spent in social and political activism, particularly under the auspices of groups involved in working for women's rights (including the suffrage) and women's protection—that is, in favour of social...

By the mid-1880s, IOF 's commitment to feminist, socialist, and labour concerns were overlapping: she maintained that trade union organization, female suffrage, and socialism were all integral parts of women's emancipation. In order to draw...

IB launched a full-scale production of Alison Garland 's The Better Half at King's Hall in Covent Garden for delegates of the Women's Liberal Federation .

EG gave birth to her second daughter (Juliet, later Rhys Williams ) on 15 December 1898. Juliet grew up to be most unlike her mother: a specialist in economics, politically active and devoted...