KPF
's diary records in minute detail her daily activities as a suffrage organizer: her campaign visits, her organized events, demonstrations attended, and her reflections on the people and places she visited. She also regularly...
Employer
Mary Gawthorpe
MG
became a paid organizer for the national Women's Social and Political Union
. She worked for the WSPU until autumn 1911 and became one of its leading organizers and speakers.
Cowman, Krista. “A Footnote in History? Mary Gawthorpe, Sylvia Pankhurst, <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The Suffragette Movement</span> and the Writing of Suffragette History”. Women’s History Review, Vol.
14
, No. 3/4, pp. 447-66.
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“Guide to the Papers of Mary E. Gawthorpe, 1881-1990”. The Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives.
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.
Cowman, Krista. “A Footnote in History? Mary Gawthorpe, Sylvia Pankhurst, <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The Suffragette Movement</span> and the Writing of Suffragette History”. Women’s History Review, Vol.
14
, No. 3/4, pp. 447-66.
450
Violence
Mary Gawthorpe
While still employed on The Freewoman though not by the increasingly militant WSPU
, MG
engaged in smashing windows of government buildings in support of a (male) hunger striker.
Cowman, Krista. “A Footnote in History? Mary Gawthorpe, Sylvia Pankhurst, <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The Suffragette Movement</span> and the Writing of Suffragette History”. Women’s History Review, Vol.
14
, No. 3/4, pp. 447-66.
451
Occupation
Mary Gawthorpe
After her momentous decision, at the age of nineteen, that she must support her mother instead of going on to university, MG
decided to leave St Michael's (though they offered to raise her salary to...
politics
Mary Gawthorpe
The Women's Social and Political Union
was only just spreading from Manchester, its birthplace in Lancashire, across the Pennines into Yorkshire. MG
worked with Christabel Pankhurst
in Glamorgan, Wales, to mobilize mining...
politics
Mary Gawthorpe
MG
's rate of work was extraordinary. During the first six months of 1907 she took part in seven election campaigns. It appears that her loyalty to the WSPU
was unaffected by the shifts and...
Occupation
Mary Gawthorpe
She then accepted Dora Marsden
's offer of a position as co-editor on The Freewoman, although she had turned down Marsden's first suggestion on the grounds that she wanted to finish [her] work in...
politics
Mary Gawthorpe
She had no objection to this kind of violence against official property, though she felt that increasing WSPU
militancy was likely to result in escalation of violence against people on both sides. She gave a...
politics
Eva Gore-Booth
EGB
and Esther Roper
again offered some support to Christabel Pankhurst
and Annie Kenney
after their landmark protest at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester on 13 October 1905. But in 1906, they and other...
politics
Sarah Grand
In an interview in 1896, SG
made clear her belief in the need for female suffrage: We shall do no good until we get the Franchise, for however well-intentioned men may be, they cannot understand...
politics
Cicely Hamilton
CH
was an active member of several suffrage organizations, always aligning herself with the non-militant suffragists. She first belonged to the Women's Social and Political Union
, but in 1907 she left to join the...
9 December 1909: The Lord Chief Justice ruled in favour of...
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9 December 1909
The Lord Chief Justice ruled in favour of forcible feeding of suffragists, arguing that it was the duty of the prison medical officer to prevent prisoners from committing suicide.
April 1910: The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies...
18 November 1910: A Women's Social and Political Union deputation...
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18 November 1910
A Women's Social and Political Union
deputation protesting against Government inaction on the Conciliation Bill was attacked by police at the House of Commons and 119 were arrested; the day became known as Black Friday.
17 June 1911: The Women's Coronation Procession was attended...
7 November 1911: The British Prime Minister, Herbert Henry...
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7 November 1911
The British Prime Minister, Herbert Henry Asquith
, told members of the People's Suffrage Federation
that his Liberal government would bring forward, next session, a Manhood Suffrage Bill or Reform Bill.
9 November 1911: The Women's Social and Political Union ended...
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9 November 1911
The Women's Social and Political Union
ended its unoffical truce with the Government in reaction to the exclusion of women from the proposed Reform Bill.
1912: The Liberal Government began censoring Votes...
28 March 1912: The Conciliation Bill (on suffrage) was defeated...
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28 March 1912
The Conciliation Bill (on suffrage) was defeated in a House of Commons
vote, after passing its second reading (the previous year) with a huge majority.