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politics | Dora Marsden | In one of her first major public appearances with the WSPU
, DM
spoke, along with leaders of the movement, at the group's rally at Heaton Park in Manchester, to mark Woman's Sunday. Garner, Les. A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960. Avebury. 29 Clarke, Bruce. Dora Marsden and Early Modernism: Gender, Individualism, Science. University of Michigan Press. 48 |
Textual Production | Dora Marsden | |
politics | Dora Marsden | DM
was arrested for the first time when she was one of a WSPU
deputation to Parliament
. She was jailed for one month at Holloway Prison
and her experience garnered much media attention. Garner, Les. A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960. Avebury. 30-2 |
Textual Production | Dora Marsden | Marsden's first major collaborator was Mary Gawthorpe
. The two began their friendship in about 1906 and had since frequently shared personal and professional concerns, including possible courses of action in the feminist movement. Garner, Les. A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960. Avebury. 48 |
Employer | Dora Marsden | |
Textual Production | Dora Marsden | |
Publishing | Dora Marsden | |
Literary responses | Dora Marsden | As editor Marsden received informal letters and formal reviews that showed appreciation for the journal's attempt at provocative, comprehensive coverage of pressing socio-political issues. But The Freewoman also aroused controversy and negative response. For instance... |
Reception | Dora Marsden | Mary Gawthorpe
resigned her co-editorship of The Freewoman after DM
published there her explicit attack on the WSPU
, A Militant Psychology. Gawthorpe had disagreed with Marsden's position for some time. Garner, Les. A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960. Avebury. 71-2 |
Literary responses | Dora Marsden | Rebecca West wrote on The Freewoman in a 1926 issue of the feminist weekly Time and Tide. She disagreed with Marsden's campaign against the WSPU
as well as with her later philosophical turns, while... |
politics | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | That autumn, against the wishes of both her father and her husband, she joined the WSPU
, organising a local branch at Newport, South Wales. She paid her one-shilling annual membership fee and pledged... |
politics | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | She was released on bail and fined £10, in addition to £10 in court costs—but she refused to pay. She was sentenced to a month's imprisonment at a jail in Usk, where she went... |
Publishing | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | In 1909, during the height of her involvement with the WSPU
, Margaret Haig Mackworth
(later MHVR
) began publishing articles in praise of militancy Spender, Dale. Time and Tide Wait for No Man. Pandora Press, http://UofA. 34 Spender says she was... |
politics | Constance Lytton | CLtook the plunge, not only of joining the WSPU
, but also of volunteering to be one of the next deputation to the Prime Minister (Herbert Henry Asquith
), which would in all... |
Employer | Constance Lytton | The Women's Social and Political Union
put CL
on its payroll as a paid organizer at two pounds a week plus expenses, making the appointment retrospective to the beginning of the year. Lytton, Constance. Prisons and Prisoners. Heinemann. 311 Lytton, Constance. Letters of Constance Lytton. Editor Elizabeth Edith, Countess of Balfour, Heinemann. 209 |
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