Women Writers' Suffrage League

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Textual Production Sarah Macnaughtan
SM gave a speech at a reception for the Women Writers' Suffrage League . The complete text is not known, but important parts of the speech were highlighted in an article by Evelyn Isitt which...
Textual Production Elizabeth Robins
Betweem 1908 and 1910 ER gave a series of speeches to the Women Writers' Suffrage League (all later collected in Way Stations).
Liggins, Emma. “The ’Sordid Story’ of an Unwanted Child: Militancy, Motherhood, and Abortion in Elizabeth Robins’s Votes for Women and Way Stations”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
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, No. 3, pp. 347-61.
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Textual Production May Sinclair
MS 's pamphlet Feminism, which puts the case for women's suffrage, was published by the Women Writers' Suffrage League , Women's Press .
Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
96
Textual Features Elizabeth Robins
As preface it reprints Woman's Secret (first published in 1900 for the WSPU by the Garden City Press of Letchworth), which argues that women's disadvantaged position is not the result of a conspiracy by...
politics Flora Annie Steel
FAS , as President of the Women Writers' Suffrage League , spoke at the Criterion Restaurant in London debate about the suffrage, against Mary Augusta Ward , who was speaking for the Anti-Suffrage Society .
Powell, Violet. Flora Annie Steel: Novelist of India. Heinemann.
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politics Sarah Grand
In an interview in 1896, SG made clear her belief in the need for female suffrage: We shall do no good until we get the Franchise, for however well-intentioned men may be, they cannot understand...
politics Flora Annie Steel
FAS was a supporter of the women's suffrage movement and a member of the Women Writers' Suffrage League . Women's lack of the vote, she felt, was illogical, not to say grotesque—exactly the kind...
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 Christopher St John
She was arrested in 1909 for setting a pillar box on fire. She worked for the Women's Social and Political Union , the Writers' Franchise League (which she helped found), the Catholic Women's Suffrage Society
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.
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She was a prominent member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and the Women's Freedom League (to both of which...
politics Violet Hunt
VH shared a self-described passion for women's suffrage
Hunt, Violet. I Have This to Say. Boni and Liveright.
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with Sinclair, her longtime friend. Sinclair introduced her to the Women's Suffrage League , the Women's Freedom League , and the Women's Social and Political Union
politics Marie Belloc Lowndes
MBL was an active member of the Women Writers' Suffrage League : the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography reports that she served as its President. She wrote later that most members of the Thirty Club
politics George Paston
GP belonged to the Women Writers' Suffrage League and the London Women's Suffrage Society .
Kaplan, Joel H., and Sheila Stowell. Theatre and Fashion: Oscar Wilde to the Suffragettes. Cambridge University Press.
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Much of her writing reflects a feminist viewpoint.
politics Elizabeth Robins
ER became president of the Women Writers' Suffrage League , founded this year by Cicely Hamilton and Bessie Hatton .
John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge.
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politics Elizabeth Robins
Aligning herself with the non-militant Pethick-LawrencesFrederick William Pethick-Lawrence , ER resigned from the Women's Social and Political Union and the Women Writers' Suffrage League .
John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge.
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Timeline

June 1908: The Women Writers' Suffrage League was established...

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June 1908

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 .

Texts

Sinclair, May. Feminism. Women Writers’ Suffrage League, 1912.