“The Papers of Agnes Maude Royden”. Archives Hub: London Metropolitan University: Women’s Library.
National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
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politics | Maude Royden | MR
spoke in support of the NUWSS
's Election Fighting Fund policy at the meeting of the NUWSS and the Labour Party
at the Royal Albert Hall. Fletcher, Sheila. Maude Royden: A Life. Basil Blackwell. 100 |
politics | Isabella Ormston Ford | She became Vice-President in 1907. The Society, which had only a few active members, nevertheless organized petitions, put on public speeches, and took part in election campaigns to advocate female suffrage sentiment. Hannam, June. Isabella Ford. Basil Blackwell. 136 |
politics | Elizabeth Baker | EB
's plays reflect her commitment to socialist and feminist ideas. Her involvement in the suffrage movement included contributing a one-act play, Edith, to a Women Writers' Suffrage League
fundraiser and subscribing to the... |
politics | Isabella Ormston Ford | |
politics | Maude Royden | In 1912, MR
wrote two letters to the editor of the Times to defend the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
and its publications against the critical judgements of the well-known anti-suffragist writer Mary Augusta Ward |
politics | Clementina Black | She also served as an executive member of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
. She became vice-president of this organization in 1911. Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press. 21 |
politics | Jessie Boucherett | JB
's associates in maintaining the original committee's name and agenda included Millicent Garrett Fawcett
, Frances Power Cobbe
, Lydia Becker
, Helen Blackburn
, and Caroline Ashurst Biggs
. Levine, Philippa. Victorian Feminism 1850-1900. Hutchinson. 64, 66 Historian Philippa Levine |
politics | Isabella Ormston Ford | Early in the war, particularly up to the end of 1914, members of the mainstream suffrage movementt—with the notable exception of the WSPU
—were united in their desire for peace. The immediate reaction of the... |
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 | Clara Codd | After attending her first WSPU
meeting, CC
was drawn to Annie Kenney
. This influenced her joining the Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women’s Suffrage Movement. the Taylor & Francis Group. 134 |
politics | Kate Parry Frye | She found the occasion amusing and exhilarating; she rushed around and flirted with men; but she continued her account: But I am in earnest. I really do feel a great belief in the need of... |
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 |
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... |
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 |
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... |
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