National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies

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.

ER first contributed to The Common Cause (journal of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies).

Margaret Ashton , a Manchester cousin, resigned from the Liberal party over the issue of suffrage in 1906. Two years later she became the first woman elected to the Manchester City Council . She was...

Her friend and biographer Mary Stocks observes that [i]n due course, she became its leading spirit, particularly as a public speaker and administrator. She also joined the Women's Industrial Council and the National Executive...

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...

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.

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 .

EGM kept a diary from her youth. She recorded on 9 November 1896 her desire to belong to the recently-founded National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies . Her diaries have recently been made accessible in...

As editor and then contributing editor, DM published essays through which she explored her doctrine of radical individualism.Asked about the paper's stance on women's suffrage, she replied that it was Nowhere, since...

Though some of DM 's activities and affiliations are unclear, studying and living in Manchester was a highly formative experience for her. By then the city had established strong ties with the labour and suffrage...

The close friendship of these two was near its end. Letters on The Freewoman from Mary Augusta (Mrs Humphry) Ward and Agnes Maude Royden , a prominent member of the NUWSS , were printed in...

Daphne Sandomir's character is based on those many middle-class women activists involved in suffrage and peace organizations like the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies , the Peace Pledge Union , and the International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace

Again contemporary documents in facsimile accompany explanatory broadsheets (on the suffrage campaign itself and contextual subjects beginning with The Prison House of Home) and an illustrated timeline, Women in Revolt, running from 1743...

The play's outspoken support of the Women's Social and Political Union was apparently not popular with the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies . Recent editor Carole Hayman remarks that this play offers the...

CH joined the editorial board of The Englishwoman, a new journal edited by Elisina Grant Richards , whose launch owed much to Jane Strachey and the NUWSS .