Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
Connections
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ray Strachey | The book starts with an account of Mary Wollstonecraft
's work, and proceeds decade by decade, citing Florence Nightingale
, Josephine Butler
, John Stuart Mill
, Sophia Jex-Blake
, and many others. Its heroine... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | The chapters which follow these address the difficulties in the suffrage campaign that were brought about by women themselves. A chapter on the anti-suffragists explains the thinking of a group of women led by Mrs Humphry Ward |
Textual Production | Eunice Guthrie Murray | 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
. |
Textual Production | Maude Royden | In 1912 MR
published with the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
one of her earliest explicitly pacifist pamphlets: Physical Force and Democracy. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Textual Production | Mary Gawthorpe | By early 1906 MG
was speaking at endless meetings for various causes in and around Leeds; by the middle of that year she was speaking further afield. Before the end of the year she... |
Textual Production | Cicely Hamilton | 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
. A predecessor under the same title... |
Textual Production | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | After publishing her histories of Women's Suffrage, MGF
received many requests from friends to add her own personal reminiscences. She refused until the Women's Leader, the journal published by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies |
Textual Production | Maude Royden | The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS)
printed the first edition of "Votes and Wages": How Women's Suffrage will Improve the Economic Position of Women, a pamphlet by A. Maude Royden. Royden, Maude. "Votes and Wages". National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies. title-page and prelims |
Textual Features | Dora Marsden | As editor and then contributing editor, DM
published essays through which she explored her doctrine of radical individualism. Clarke, Bruce. Dora Marsden and Early Modernism: Gender, Individualism, Science. University of Michigan Press. 3 |
Textual Features | Judith Kazantzis | 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... |
Textual Features | Rose Macaulay | 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 |
Publishing | Maude Royden | The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS)
, for which MR
served as an executive member and then as editor of The Common Cause, published many of her polemical pamphlets and writings on... |
Publishing | Eleanor Rathbone | ER
first contributed to The Common Cause (journal of the National Union
of Women's Suffrage Societies). Alberti, Johanna. Eleanor Rathbone. Sage Press. 157 |
Author summary | Isabella Ormston Ford | Isabella Ormston Ford was a dedicated labour activist, suffragette, and anti-war advocate at the turn of the nineteenth century whose writing advocates her socialist-feminist ideals. She wrote newspaper articles, pamphlets, short stories, and novels, all... |
politics | Isabella Ormston Ford |
Timeline
14 October 1897: The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies...
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14 October 1897
The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
was established under the leadership of Millicent Garrett Fawcett
.
16-17 October 1903: The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies...
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16-17 October 1903
The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
sponsored a National Convention in Defence of the Civic Rights of Women in London; the conference's aim was to develop strategies to make suffrage an issue in...
19 May 1906: Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, newly-elected...
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19 May 1906
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
, newly-elected Prime Minister, received a deputation of suffragists.
January 1907: The Artists' Suffrage League was founded...
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January 1907
The Artists' Suffrage League
was founded to further the cause of Women's enfranchisement by the work and professional help of artists.
Tickner, Lisa. The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign, 1907-1914. University of Chicago Press.
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9 February 1907: The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies...
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9 February 1907
The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
organised a demonstration to coincide with the opening of the next session of Parliament (the biggest suffragist public event so far); because of the pouring rain, it became...
8 March 1907: With the support of the National Union of...
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8 March 1907
With the support of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
, Liberal Member of Parliament Willoughby H. Dickinson
introduced a Women's Enfranchisement Bill for its second reading.
End of January 1908: The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies...
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End of January 1908
The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
sent a deputation to discuss the issue of women's suffrage with Herbert Asquith
.
13 June 1908: The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies...
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13 June 1908
The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
organised a co-ordinated procession in London which included 10,000 women from forty-two organizations.
21 June 1908: The Women's Social and Political Union organised...
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21 June 1908
The Women's Social and Political Union
organised a Woman's Sunday which involved (according to the Times estimate) between 250,000 and 500,000 people, mostly women. The WSPU called it Britain's largest-ever political meeting.
12 November 1908: The Times published a letter by the National...
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12 November 1908
The Times published a letter by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
stating their disapproval of suffragette militancy; the letter had been sent to all Members of Parliament as well as the press.
15 April 1909: The Common Cause, the official organ of the...
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15 April 1909
The Common Cause, the official organ of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
, began weekly publication in Manchester.
27 April 1909: The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies...
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27 April 1909
The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
organized the Pageant of Women's Trades and Professions.
About 9 October 1909: In response to Women's Social and Political...
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About 9 October 1909
In response to Women's Social and Political Union
militancy, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
passed a resolution stating that it would employ only constitutional means towards achieving the vote.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland.
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April 1910: The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies...
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April 1910
The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
passed a resolution supporting the Conciliation Bill proposed by the Conciliation Committee
.
18 June 1910: A From Prison to Citizenship Procession,...
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18 June 1910
A From Prison to Citizenship Procession, in support of the Conciliation Bill, took place in London, organised by the Women's Social and Political Union
and the Women's Freedom League
.
Texts
Fawcett, Millicent Garrett, and Charles Wallwyn Radcliffe Cooke. Women’s Suffrage in Parliament. National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1898.
Royden, Maude. "Votes and Wages". National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1911.
Royden, Maude. "Votes and Wages". National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1912.