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politics | Kate Parry Frye | This event motivated her to leave the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
and join the Women's Social and Political Union
. Her true activism, however, began in 1911, when she began working for the... |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | ER
became President of the Lancashire and Cheshire's regional federation of suffrage groups, which operated under the auspices of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
. Stocks, Mary. Eleanor Rathbone: A Biography. Gollancz, 1949. 67 |
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 Gawthorpe | |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | |
politics | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | The organisation was formed by consolidating all the local societies working for Women's Suffrage. By 1907, however, MGF
turned definitively against the policy of direct action, which had become linked especially with the name of... |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | ER
succeeded Millicent Garrett Fawcett
as President of the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship
(NUSEC
)—formerly the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
(NUWSS
)—a post she held for ten years. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
politics | Virginia Woolf | Virginia's work consisted mainly of addressing envelopes, and she committed herself only to some weeks of this at the beginning and end of 1910. But she was also associated with the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies |
politics | Katharine Tynan | KT
became a member of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
(established by Millicent Garrett Fawcett
in 1897) around 1910, on moving to Tunbridge Wells, where she found a strong Suffrage party. Tynan, Katharine. The Middle Years. Constable, 1916. 380 |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | Her friend and biographer Mary Stocks
observes that [i]n due course, she became its leading spirit, Stocks, Mary. Eleanor Rathbone: A Biography. Gollancz, 1949. 64 |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | The magistrate sentenced eleven women (ten arrested outside parliament and one, Sylvia Pankhurst
, arrested at the court) to two months in Holloway Prison's second division (which at this time held convicted criminals, while... |
politics | Emmeline Pankhurst | The WSPU was militant, unlike the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
, a federation of suffrage societies led by Lydia Becker
and later by Millicent Garrett Fawcett
. Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst. Kraus Reprint, 1969. 50n1 |
politics | Isabella Ormston Ford | IOF
was elected to sit on the Executive Committee of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
(NUWSS). Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Hannam, June. Isabella Ford. Basil Blackwell, 1989. xii, 122 |
politics | Christabel Pankhurst | CP
, Emmeline Pankhurst
, and Flora Drummond
organized a rush on the House of Commons to begin at this time, infuriating members of the NUWSS
by their militant WSPU
tactics. Castle, Barbara. Sylvia and Christabel Pankhurst. Penguin, 1987. 71-2 Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982. 50-1 |
politics | Isabella Ormston Ford | IOF
, along with thirteen other executive members, resigned from the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
because they believed the demand for the vote should be linked with the advocacy of the deeper principles... |
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