Women Writers' Suffrage League

Connections

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Performance of text Elizabeth Baker
EB 's one-act comedy Edith was performed at a fundraising event for the Women Writers' Suffrage League at the Prince's Theatre .
Weiss, Rudolf. “Versions of Emancipation: The Dramatic World of Elizabeth Baker”. Sprachkunst, Vol.
20
, No. 2, pp. 305-16.
315
Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press.
490
Stowell, Sheila. A Stage of Their Own. University of Michigan Press.
102
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 Stella Benson
SB had been a moderate until the death of the Derby Martyr, Emily Wilding Davison , in 1913. After this she became more militant. When she moved to London in May 1914, she called...
politics Stella Benson
After the First World War broke out in August 1914, SB sided with Flora Annie Steel in a Women Writers' Suffrage League dispute over supporting the war. Benson and Steel believed in supporting the war...
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 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
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.
51
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
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...
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
Much of her writing reflects a feminist viewpoint.
Performance of text George Paston
The play was performed alongside Cicely Hamilton 's Pageant of Great Women as part of a fundraising event organised by Inez Bensusan on behalf of the Actresses' Franchise League and the Women Writers' Suffrage League
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
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.
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Timeline

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

National or international item

June 1908

17 June 1911: The Women's Coronation Procession was attended...

National or international item

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.