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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 Honorary Secretary of the Liverpool Women's Suffrage Society
, which was affiliated with the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
(NUWSS). Pedersen, Susan. Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience. Yale University Press. 59 Stocks, Mary. Eleanor Rathbone: A Biography. Gollancz. 64 |
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 | 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. 67 |
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. 380 |
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 | |
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 | Eva Gore-Booth | The congress was organized by a pacifist group that had split from the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
(NUWSS
) over the issue of supporting the British war effort. Margaret Llewelyn Davies
,... |
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 | Sarah Grand | |
politics | Sarah Grand | In an interview in 1896, SG
made clear her belief in the need for female suffrage: We shall do no good until we get the Franchise, for however well-intentioned men may be, they cannot understand... |
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. 64 |
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. xii, 122 |
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