Women's Freedom League

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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...
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 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.
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published a suffrage pamphlet, This Monstrous Regiment of Women, with the Minerva Publishing Co. for the Women's Freedom League
politics Charlotte Despard
CD stood as a pacifist Labour candidate on 14 December 1918, for the constituency she knew best, in Battersea, in the first British election in which women were entitled to do so, and was...
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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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 Charlotte Despard
CD was a leader among those dissenters from the WSPU who founded the Women's Freedom League for constitutional militants. She was to become president of the new organization.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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.
politics Edith Craig
EC and Christopher St John worked with Charlotte Despard 's new Women's Freedom League .
Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell.
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politics Jane Hume Clapperton
She also joined the Central arm of this organization in 1890, subscribed to the Women's Emancipation Union in 1894 and 1896, and subscribed to the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1907. By 1908...

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