Butler, Josephine. “The New Godiva. A Dialogue, 1888”. Indiana University: Victorian Women Writers Project.
International Council of Women
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Djuna Barnes | DB
's paternal grandmother, Zadel Barnes
, was a successful journalist, novelist, and poet, whose work appeared regularly in Harper's Bazaar and the Pall Mall Gazette. She travelled to England in the 1880s with... |
Textual Production | Josephine Butler | In 1888 JB
published Mrs. Butler's Appeal to the Women of America, her address to the International Council of Women
, accompanied by a brief theatrical piece, The New Godiva: A Dialogue. |
Travel | Laura Ormiston Chant | As a delegate to the International Council of Women
in Washington, DC, LOC
made her first voyage to North America. Donohue, Joseph. Fantasies of Empire: The Empire Theatre of Varieties and the Licensing Controversy of 1894. University of Iowa Press. 25 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Laura Ormiston Chant | In 1888, at the first meeting of the International Council of Women
, LOC
identified herself as a grandniece of Edmund Burke
, but it is possible that she was speaking figuratively rather than literally. Donohue, Joseph. Fantasies of Empire: The Empire Theatre of Varieties and the Licensing Controversy of 1894. University of Iowa Press. 23, 25 “Horbury Chapel, Kensington Park Road, Notting Hill Gate, Kensington”. AIM25. London Metropolitan Archives. |
politics | Agnes Maule Machar | A maternal feminist, AMM
worked with the National Council of Women
and was the first life member of the International Council of Women
. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Gerson, Carole, editor. Canada’s Early Women Writers. http://cufts2.lib.sfu.ca/CRDB/BVAS/resource/5724. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Occupation | Pandita Ramabai | Her time in the USA was largely spent fundraising: on 13 December 1887 she founded the Ramabai Association
to fund the creation of a home that would educate young, high-caste widows in Bombay(now Mumbai)... |
Timeline
July 1888: The first international conference on women's...
National or international item
July 1888
The first international conference on women's suffrage was held in Washington, DC; it brought together members of the International Council of Women
and the National Council of Women
.
June 1904: The International Council of Women met in...
Building item
June 1904
The International Council of Women
met in Berlin and formed the International Woman Suffrage Alliance
; Carrie Chapman Catt
became its first President.
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