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Connections
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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
. |
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 | 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 | 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 |
Publishing | Helen Blackburn | 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 |
Publishing | Harriet Taylor | In 1859 Mill
reprinted this essay shortly after HT
's death in the second volume of his Dissertations and Discussions. Hayek, Friedrich Augustus von et al. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press. 14 Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press. 502 |
Textual Production | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | 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
. |
Textual Production | Frances Power Cobbe | 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. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press. 416 |
Textual Production | Helen Blackburn | 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
. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
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