Women's Social and Political Union

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Cultural formation Beatrice Harraden
BH was born into the English commercial middle class. Although her novels do not engage in much detail with feminist issues, she was a keen suffragist, involved with the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) .
politics Beatrice Harraden
BH seems to have been patriotic (at least in contrast with those of her friends who were pacifists) and pro-Empire: that is, apart from the issue of women's suffrage, fairly conservative in politics. But as...
politics Beatrice Harraden
BH was identified in an interview of 1897 as a pronounced Suffragist.
Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928. Routledge.
276
She was a prominent member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and the Women's Freedom League (to both of which...
politics Beatrice Harraden
If these actions had Christabel's sanction, she wrote, you have lost your way, lost the trail, lost the vision of the distant scene.
Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928. Routledge.
276
This letter marked her disillusionment with the increasingly militant tactics of...
Performance of text Beatrice Harraden
In March 1908 BH read a chapter of Ships that Pass in the Night at a concert given by the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) .
Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928. Routledge.
276
The pen with which she is said...
Textual Production Beatrice Harraden
This was nine days after Harraden had performed the daily opening of the Exhibition as the celebrity designated for that date, and had donated the manuscript of the play, bound in green leather, to be...
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...
Textual Production Cicely Hamilton
The original sheet, music and words, as sold by the Woman's Press at the price of one penny, was reproduced for the centenary of the Women's Social and Political Union , in 2003.
Purvis, June. “Introduction: The Suffragette and Women’s History”. Women’s History Review, Vol.
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, No. 3/4, pp. 357-61.
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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 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 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...
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 &amp; 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.

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