National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies

JB 's associates in maintaining the original committee's name and agenda included Millicent Garrett Fawcett , Frances Power Cobbe , Lydia Becker , Helen Blackburn , and Caroline Ashurst Biggs .

Early in the war, particularly up to the end of 1914, members of the mainstream suffrage movementt—with the notable exception of the WSPU —were united in their desire for peace. The immediate reaction of the...

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.

After attending her first WSPU meeting, CC was drawn to Annie Kenney . This influenced her joining the WSPU and later the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies .

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...

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 .

MGF was President of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies . She held office until the NUWSS changed its name at a council meeting in January 1919, following the victory of 1918.

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...

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...

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...

Tom Garrs introduced MG to Socialist politics. This was a time, she wrote later, when in a place the size of Leeds the labour movement was deeply aware but not yet moving, much less on...

ER became Honorary Secretary of the Liverpool Women's Suffrage Society , which was affiliated with the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).

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...

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 .

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.