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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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. 25 , No. 3, pp. 347-61. 348-9 |
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 | 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
, 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. 125 |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Violet Hunt | VH
shared a self-described passion for women's suffrage Hunt, Violet. I Have This to Say. Boni and Liveright. 51 |
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. 163 |
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. 153 |
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. 167-71 |