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politics | Christabel Pankhurst | CP
met Eva Gore-Booth
and Esther Roper
, founders of the North of England Women's Suffrage Society
; she was their political apprentice for the following three years. Purvis, June. Emmeline Pankhurst: A Biography. Routledge. 59 Winslow, Barbara, and Sheila Rowbotham. Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism. UCL Press. 2-3 |
politics | Lydia Becker | In 1874 LB
supported a suffrage bill brought in by a Conservative MP, which would have given the vote to unmarried women and widows only (on the basis that a married woman would merely duplicate... |
politics | Amelia B. Edwards | She also served as a vice-president of the West of England National Society for Woman's Suffrage
. Kirk, John Foster, and S. Austin Allibone, editors. A Supplement to Allibone’s Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors. J. B. Lippincott. |
politics | Helen Blackburn | HB
acted as secretary of the Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage
. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press. 26 |
politics | Emmeline Pankhurst | Its members included Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy
, Jane Cobden
, William Lloyd Garrison
, Josephine Butler
, and Mrs P. A. (Clementia) Taylor
(convenor of the first Women's Suffrage Committee
formed in London), among others. |
politics | Helen Blackburn | HB
served as secretary of the Bristol and West of England Suffrage Society
. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press. 26 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
politics | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | MGF
was a member of the first Women's Suffrage Committee
, formed in July 1867 after John Stuart Mill proposed his suffrage amendment in parliament. She was the youngest woman at the initial gathering. At... |
politics | Mary Stott | MS
served as Chairperson of the Fawcett Society
from 1980 to 1982 and was one of its original trustees. In 1981 she joined the Social Democratic Party, or SDP
, founded by breakaway members of... |
politics | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | MGF
was acutely aware of the potential represented by members of parliament, as is shown in her initiative in founding the Speaker's Conference on Electoral Reform
in 1916, to bring together MPs who were prepared... |
politics | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | BLSB
took great satisfaction in the first meeting of the Kensington Society
in London, which she had formed, with other feminists, to facilitate political and social activism. Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press. 151 |
politics | Kate Parry Frye | She found the occasion amusing and exhilarating; she rushed around and flirted with men; but she continued her account: But I am in earnest. I really do feel a great belief in the need of... |
politics | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | The Kensington Society
adopted a resolution supporting female suffrage. Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press. 153 |
politics | Helen Taylor | HT
addressed the National Society for Women's Suffrage
at the Hanover Square Rooms, London. Robson, Ann P. et al. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Sexual Equality, University of Toronto Press, p. vii - xxxv; various pages. 279n1 |
politics | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | A new London National Society for Women's Suffrage
was formed, following the disbanding of BLSB
's provisional committee the previous month. Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press. 165 |
politics | Helen Taylor | HT
addressed the Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage
. Kent, Susan Kingsley. Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860-1914. Princeton University Press. 192 |
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