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Women's Freedom League
Connections
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Travel | Charlotte Despard | She made summer visits to London, and the Women's Freedom League
would hold their annual meetings around 15 June, in order to combine them with a birthday party for her. |
Textual Production | Evelyn Glover | EG
's spirited one-act suffrage play A Chat with Mrs. Chicky was performed at the Rehearsal Theatre
in London, with Inez Bensusan
in the title role. Theatre historian Julie Holledge
mentions an earlier performance... |
Textual Production | Kate O'Brien | The Times carried KOB
's obituary of feminist Marian Reeves
, president of the Women's Freedom League
, who died in Killarney three days after unveiling a memorial at the grave of Charlotte Despard
. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (1 September 1961): 12 |
Textual Production | Charlotte Despard | CD
issued a seven-page pamphlet entitled Woman's Franchise and Industry, published by the Women's Freedom League
. 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 | Kate O'Brien | Reeves, aged eighty-two and with a heart condition, had attended a women's conference in Dublin, unveiled the plaque in honour of Despard (founder of the Women's Freedom League
and a personal friend), and slipped... |
Textual Production | Ford Madox Ford | Ford Madox Hueffer (later Ford)
, as a self-styled ardent, . . . enraged, suffragette, Stang, Sondra J., editor. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Ford Madox Ford Reader, Carcanet, p. various pages. 304 |
Textual Features | Margaret Legge | When her mother dies leaving her some money, Janet writes to her husband (who still idolises her, but looks down upon her from a mental height and explains things in the simplest possible way, with... |
Reception | Olive Schreiner | The book was a particular delight to women readers, but its popularity extended to people of both genders and all classes. Lady Constance Lytton
later recalled that her father and the artist George Frederic Watts |
Publishing | Eunice Guthrie Murray | EGM
's undated pamphlet Woman's Value in War Time, published in London by the Women's Freedom League
, presumably dated from the First World War years. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography lists more... |
Publishing | Charlotte Despard | CD
was the original editor of The Vote, 1909-1933, journal of the Women's Freedom League
. She contributed to Women's Franchise, 1907-11, Business Girl, which began and ended in 1912, and The Irish Citizen, 1912-20. “Feminist and Women’s Periodicals at Stanford”. Sulair (Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources). |
politics | Marie Stopes | Stopes was a feminist and suffragist before she became a birth-control activist. Her retention of her own name after marriage was a political act. On the suffrage issue she was a non-militant, belonging to the... |
politics | Cicely Hamilton | CH
was an active member of several suffrage organizations, always aligning herself with the non-militant suffragists. She first belonged to the Women's Social and Political Union
, but in 1907 she left to join the... |
politics | Beatrice Harraden | BH
was identified in an interview of 1897 as a pronounced Suffragist. Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928. Routledge. 276 |
politics | Violet Hunt | VH
shared a self-described passion for women's suffrage Hunt, Violet. I Have This to Say. Boni and Liveright. 51 |
politics | Dora Marsden | Following her split with the WSPU
, DM
considered joining the Women's Freedom League
or the Fabian Society
, but instead began to plan for a radical feminist journal that would stimulate discussion of diverse... |
Timeline
October 1907: Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst and Emmeline...
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October 1907
Emmeline
and Christabel Pankhurst
and Emmeline
and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence
, wanting to maintain control over the Women's Social and Political Union
agenda, removed by fiat dissident members of the executive and cancelled the forthcoming annual conference.
November 1907: Charlotte Despard and Teresa Billington Greig...
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November 1907
Charlotte Despard
and Teresa Billington Greig
left the Women's Social and Political Union
to form the Women's Freedom League
.
February 1909: The Suffrage Atelier was established; like...
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February 1909
The Suffrage Atelier
was established; like members of the Artists' Suffrage League
, SA members produced posters and banners to advertise suffrage activities.
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
.
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
.
6 March 1912: The Women's Freedom League denounced Women's...
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6 March 1912
The Women's Freedom League
denounced Women's Social and Political Union
militancy in a letter to the Manchester Guardian.
After 4 August 1914: The Women's Freedom League formed the Women's...
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After 4 August 1914
The Women's Freedom League
formed the Women's Suffrage National Aid Corps to assist women and children during wartime.
September 1914: Two women's police forces were formed: the...
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September 1914
Two women's police forces were formed: the Women's Police Volunteers
and the Women Patrols
.
Saturday 19 June 1926: About a hundred thousand participants of...
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Saturday 19 June 1926
About a hundred thousand participants of the Peacemakers' Pilgrimage (all wearing blue armbands showing the white dove of peace and the word Pax) converged on Hyde Park in London.
2 February 1927: Margaret Rhondda, as Chairman of the Equal...
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2 February 1927
Margaret Rhondda
, as Chairman of the Equal Political Rights Campaign Committee
, with many other suffrage veterans, signed a letter to the editor of The Times pressing for women to vote on equal terms with men.
6 July 1928: Four days after the Representation of the...
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6 July 1928
Four days after the Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act received the royal assent, a celebratory breakfast was held at the Hotel Cecil in London.
Texts
Despard, Charlotte. Woman’s Franchise and Industry. Women’s Freedom League, 1913.
Ford, Ford Madox. This Monstrous Regiment of Women. Women’s Freedom League, 1913.
Murray, Eunice Guthrie. Woman’s Value in War Time. Women’s Freedom League.