Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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. |
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 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Eleanor Rathbone | 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... |
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 | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | 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... |
politics | Christabel Pankhurst | 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. Castle, Barbara. Sylvia and Christabel Pankhurst. Penguin. 71-2 Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland. 50-1 |
politics | Emmeline Pankhurst | 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
. Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst. Kraus Reprint. 50n1 |
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
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Education | Dora Marsden | 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... |
Literary responses | Dora Marsden | 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... |
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 | 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 |
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... |
Literary responses | Beatrice Harraden | 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
. Hayman, Carole, and Dale Spender, editors. How the Vote Was Won: and Other Suffragette Plays. Methuen. 91 |
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... |
Timeline
28 June 1910: The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies...
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28 June 1910
The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
sponsored a meeting in Queen's Hall in support of the Conciliation Bill.
9 July 1910: The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies...
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9 July 1910
The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
sponsored a demonstration in Trafalgar Square, London, attended by over 10,000 people, in support of the impending second reading of the Conciliation Bill.
23 July 1910: A march in London was held in support of...
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23 July 1910
A march in London was held in support of the Conciliation Bill; originally proposed by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
, it was eventually taken over by the Women's Social and Political Union
.
17 June 1911: The Women's Coronation Procession was attended...
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17 June 1911
The Women's Coronation Procession was attended by 40,000 women from at least twenty-eight women's suffrage organisations, including both the Women's Social and Political Union
and the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
.
9 November 1911: The Women's Social and Political Union ended...
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9 November 1911
The Women's Social and Political Union
ended its unoffical truce with the Government in reaction to the exclusion of women from the proposed Reform Bill.
May 1912: The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies...
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May 1912
The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
voted to support Labour
candidates.
May 1912: The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies...
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May 1912
The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
established the Election Fighting Fund to allow it to support Labour
candidates in constituencies where a Liberal
anti-suffragist was running.
26 July 1913: The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies...
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26 July 1913
The National Union of Women's Suffrage SocietiesWomen's Pilgrimage culminated in London with a meeting in Hyde Park.
5 May 1914: The House of Lords voted down a suffrage...
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5 May 1914
The House of Lords
voted down a suffrage bill which would give votes to women who were on the municipal register.
4 August 1914: Late in the day of England's declaration...
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4 August 1914
Late in the day of England's declaration of war on Germany, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
membership demonstrated with members of trades unions and women's socialist organizations at a large peace rally held...
6 August 1914: After England's declaration of war on Germany,...
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6 August 1914
After England's declaration of war on Germany, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
decided to suspend all political activity.
Early August 1914: In response to the support for Britain's...
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Early August 1914
In response to the support for Britain's war effort pledged by Millicent Garrett Fawcett
and other National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
Executive Committee members, several leading members of the Union resigned to form the...
Early 1919: The National Union of Societies for Equal...
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Early 1919
The National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship
formed from the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
to continue the campaign for equal suffrage.
30 January 1920: The Common Cause, the official organ of the...
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30 January 1920
The Common Cause, the official organ of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
, ended publication in London under this name, even as subtitle. The next number appeared as The Woman's Leader.
15, 17 June 2011: The Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) released...
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15, 17 June 2011
The Visual Arts Data Service (VADS)
released a digitized version of documents, photos, banners, and personal mementoes from the struggle of British women for suffrage, housed at the Women's Library
and the British parliamentary
archives.
Doherty, Teresa. Emails to the Women’s History Network.
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