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Education | Alison Uttley | At Manchester, AU
lived in the women's residence, Ashburne House. Formative teachers in her life included Hilda Oakeley Oakeley, a Somerville College graduate and a close friend of Eleanor Rathbone
, had a great impact... |
Friends, Associates | Maude Royden | Courtney
and Royden served together as executive members of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS)
, of which in 1911 Courtney became secretary. They also worked together as vice-chairs for the Women's International League (WIL) |
Friends, Associates | Amabel Williams-Ellis | Her political activities kept AWE
at the centre of London's socially-conscious literary circles. Guests at The Well of Loneliness tea-party included Virginia Woolf
, Rose Macaulay
, Vita Sackville-West
, G. B. Shaw
, and... |
Literary responses | Sylvia Pankhurst | Save the Mothers was well reviewed. George Bernard Shaw
responded enthusiastically to the book, and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
expressed her pleasure at its positive reception. Vera Brittain
also praised it, favourably comparing SP
's activism for... |
Occupation | Maude Royden | MR
served as a member of the Family Endowment Committee
, which was organised by Eleanor Rathbone
to investigate poverty in Britain and to instigate changes in the social and financial treatment of motherhood. Lewis, Jane. “Beyond Suffrage: English Feminism in the 1920s”. The Maryland Historian, No. 1, pp. 1 - 18. 10-11 Spartacus Educational. under Eleanor Rathbone |
Occupation | Maude Royden | In 1915 she resigned from the society, which had its source in the merging in 1887 of seventeen organizations devoted to campaigning for women's emancipation. Lydia Becker
, then Millicent Garrett Fawcett
, had been... |
Occupation | Maude Royden | Once women had received the vote, MR
, whose feminism stressed the differences epitomized in maternity, joined Eleanor Rathbone
and Mary Stocks
in arguing that the status of motherhood should be raised to that of... |
Occupation | Maude Royden | In June 1921, they moved the Fellowship Services to the Guildhouse, Eccleston Square, where MR
continued to preach until she resigned in December 1936. She resigned because, she said, I have to choose; and... |
Occupation | Maude Royden | Between 1923 and January 1924, she used this position to urge the Church to revise its marriage service by removing implications of female subordination in marriage, specifically the command that the wife obey the husband... |
politics | Marie Belloc Lowndes | The letter challenged a recent antisuffragist manifesto, and stressed three points from Prime Minister Asquith
's statement to suffragists of 14 August. The points were that women had rendered as effective service to their country... |
politics | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | Yet suffrage did not cease to be her goal. She was instrumental, after the passing of the Representation of the People Act giving the vote to women over thirty in February 1918, in getting the... |
politics | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | Apart from the suffrage issue, MGF
's political attitudes were those of the Liberal Party of the Victorian era. Though she strongly supported education for girls, she opposed universal free education (and the family allowances... |
Publishing | Eva Mary Bell | In 1920 EMB
was listed as a regular contributor to the Woman's Supplement of The Times. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. 42568 (15 November 1920): 14 |
Textual Features | Ray Strachey | In this volume contributors Eleanor F. Rathbone
, MP (a very early woman member of the House of Commons), Mary Agnes Hamilton
, Erna Reiss
, Alison Neilans
, and RS
herself assess the legal... |
Textual Features | Rosita Forbes | RF
builds her conclusion from the idea of two great influences in India that we, that is English people, are ignorant of: the influence of religion, and the influence of women. The latter is immeasurable... |