National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies

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...

ER resigned from the NUWSS executive after opposing changes to the group's Election Fighting Fund. She later rejoined, however.

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 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.

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...

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

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.

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...

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 .

IOF was elected to sit on the Executive Committee of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).

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.

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...