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
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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 | 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 |
politics | May Sinclair | MS
marched, along with her friends Alice Meynell
, Alice Zimmern
, and Marie Belloc Lowndes
, in the From Prison to Citizenship procession as a member of the Women Writers' Suffrage League
. Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press. 111 |
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 | May Sinclair | MS
was one of twelve Vice-Presidents of the Women Writers' Suffrage League
when Flora Annie Steel
took over the presidency from Elizabeth Robins
. Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 96 |
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 | May Sinclair | MS
became a member of the Women Writers' Suffrage League
some time after it was founded in June 1908. Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 96 |
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... |