Mary Gawthorpe

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Standard Name: Gawthorpe, Mary
Birth Name: Mary Eleanor Gawthorpe
Nickname: Nellie
MG , from a working-class family with a tradition of self-education, became a remarkable speaker and writer on behalf of women's suffrage. She co-edited The Freewoman, working somewhat uneasily with Dora Marsden . Her memoirs, published in her old age after her emigration from England to the USA, give a vivid account of her early struggles.
Sepia photograph of a young Mary Gawthorpe leaning sideways in an armchair with her head propped on one hand. She wears a blouse with full sleeves and a waistcoat over it. Her short, curly hair is centre-parted and brushed back. An inscription in capitals reads "Miss Mary Gawthorpe. National Women's Social and Political Union, 4 Clements Inn London W. C."

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
October 1906, with the prospect of the re-opening of parliament, was full of suffrage activity for EPL and her husband. They had Christabel Pankhurst as a permanent guest at Clements Inn, occupying an office below...
Friends, Associates Dora Marsden
Introduced to each other by Mary Gawthorpe , DM and Rebecca West began a friendship based on their shared interest in feminist issues.
Garner, Les. A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960. Avebury.
93
Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton.
16-17
Friends, Associates Emmeline Pankhurst
EP was by now a legendary figure for suffragists of her own generation and the next. Mary Gawthorpe recorded her first sight of her as neat, dainty, the very picture of discontent and mutinous intention...
Friends, Associates Isabella Ormston Ford
The sisters were friends of a large group of local female socialists who all campaigned for sex equality, many of whom were influenced by Carpenter. These included Katharine Bruce Glasier , Edith Priestman , Julia Varley
Family and Intimate relationships Dora Marsden
At about this time a close friendship began between two influential early twentieth-century feminists: DM and Mary Gawthorpe .
Garner, Les. A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960. Avebury.
48
Family and Intimate relationships Emmeline Pankhurst
She later deeply impressed Mary Gawthorpe by being the only woman she knew to declare that if given the chance she would not change one iota of her life experience, including her marriage and her...

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