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Instructor | Lady Ottoline Morrell | When she was in her early twenties, William Dalrymple Maclagan
, eighty-eighth Bishop of York, supervised her continuing education and prepared regular reading lists for her. And even after this, intellectual men of her acquaintance... |
politics | Dora Marsden | Following her split with the WSPU
, DM
considered joining the Women's Freedom League
or the Fabian Society
, but instead began to plan for a radical feminist journal that would stimulate discussion of diverse... |
politics | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | Margaret Haig Mackworth (later MHVR
) slipped through a police barricade to confront Prime Minister Herbert Asquith
about women's suffrage as he was being driven off in his car. Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press. 28 |
politics | Constance Lytton | |
politics | Constance Lytton | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Constance Lytton | The elder of Constance's surviving brothers, Victor Bulwer-Lytton, second Earl of Lytton
, a colonial civil servant and diplomat, was also a supporter of the suffrage campaign. He visited Constance in Holloway Prison
, Lytton, Constance. Prisons and Prisoners. Heinemann. 152-3 |
Violence | Constance Lytton | On 21 November 1911, when Asquith
's proposal for a Manhood Suffrage Bill brought out the suffragists in force, CL
attended as a stone-thrower, armed also with a small hammer. Lytton, Constance. Prisons and Prisoners. Heinemann. 319ff |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Constance Lytton | After her release, her account of her continuing campaign both to publicise the suffrage demands and to effect reform of prisons is merged in an account of events on the broader suffrage front: the Conciliation... |
Friends, Associates | Edith Lyttelton | EL
and her husband were friendly with several prominent politicians, including Herbert Asquith
and Arthur Balfour
. Lyttelton, Edith. Alfred Lyttelton: An Account of His Life. Longmans, Green. 220 |
Friends, Associates | Marie Belloc Lowndes | Her literary friends of a generation before her own included George Meredith
, Rhoda Broughton
, and Henry James
. She participated in the friendship of the two last-named by being regularly at Broughton's house... |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Kennedy | Margaret Kennedy
married David Davies
, a successful barrister who had been a secretary to the former Prime Minister Asquith
. Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann. 74-5 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 36 Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Kennedy | Through her marriage to Davies, Kennedy came into contact with the former Prime Minister Asquith
and his family. Her acquaintance with members of high society gave her considerable material for later fiction. Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann. 77, 90 |
politics | Margaret Kennedy | MK
's marriage to a former secretary for the Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith
(1909-1916) solidified her allegiance to the Liberal party, though she never took an active role in it. (Asquith's term was... |
politics | Violet Hunt | Some of the WSPU
's meetings and parties were held at Hunt's home, South Lodge in Kensington. In her memoir she gleefully recalls introducing Christabel Pankhurst
to Mrs Humphry Ward
, author and vocal... |
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