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LB was appointed Secretary of the Manchester committee for the promotion of the enfranchisement of women, an early local branch of what was soon to become the National Society for Women's Suffrage .

LB brought to her suffrage activism a complete mastery of Parliamentary procedure, acting as the official Parliamentary agent of the National Societies for Women's Suffrage . Helen Blackburn asserts that to members...

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...

HB acted as secretary of the Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage .

HB served as secretary of the Bristol and West of England Suffrage Society .

HB 's first publication, a fifteen-page pamphlet entitled Some of the Facts of the Women's Suffrage Question, was published by the Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage .

HB 's other works on the suffrage movement and women's rights include A Handy Book of Reference for Irishwomen (1888) and Some Supporters of the Women's Suffrage Movement (published by the Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage

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.

The Kensington Society adopted a resolution supporting female suffrage.

A new London National Society for Women's Suffrage was formed, following the disbanding of BLSB 's provisional committee the previous month.

BLSB wrote regularly on feminist topics for the Journal and other periodicals; her articles were often based on papers delivered for the Kensington Society or at the annual meetings of the Social Science Association .

In 1888, the Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage (a group whose name and composition had already undergone changes) separated into two entities. JB was a part of the group which retained...

Dorothy's immediate family was large and vibrant: she had nine surviving siblings, most of whom distinguished themselves in the public realm. Her sister Philippa (Pippa) Strachey (1872-1968) was a longtime suffragist who organized the first...

The National Society for Women's Suffrage published FPC 's short pamphlet Why Women Desire the Franchise; it was revised and reissued through to the end of the century.

Firmly committed to doing everything in [her] power to protect the property, the persons and the parental rights of women,FPC was involved in the women's suffrage campaign from its inception in 1866...