9 results for anti-vivisection for Political affiliation

Frances Power Cobbe

FPC was horrified that anti-vivisection legislation initiated by her, by the time the bill passed in heavily amended form on 12 August 1876, in effect shielded vivisectionists from prosecution. She moved from parliamentary lobbying to using the tactics of sensation, boycott, and direct action.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press.
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Michael Field

Katharine and Edith joined the University College debating society, where they tried out their arguments in favour of women's suffrage and the anti-vivisection movement—they were involved in both causes for several years.
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge.

Rhoda Broughton

In the early twentieth century RB wrote several letters to the Times as a member of the National Anti-Vivisection Society (indignantly denying that the anti-vivisection campaign was a fad) and on behalf of the National Blind Relief Society (for the sake of which she did not hesitate to abuse non-givers in strong language as stingy and self-complacent).
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(25 April 1900): 14; (8 March 1902): 14; (13 October 1902): 8

Mona Caird

MC stepped into the public eye in the 1880s as a radical member of the women's movement, a supporter of all kinds of linked causes. An article in the Review of Reviews in 1893 equated her with a Russian Nihilist, calling her the priestess of revolt on the grounds of her support for Sophie Wassilieff , who had been imprisoned in Russia for her political activities. Caird's writings about marriage were probably an important factor in this image.
Forward, Stephanie. “A Study in Yellow: Mona Caird’s ’The Yellow Drawing-Room’”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
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, No. 2, pp. 295-07.
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Stephanie Forward observes that her inclusion (along with Charlotte Despard ) as one of only two women members of the short-lived Free Press Defence Committee —struck to defend George Bedborough of the Legitimation League after his arrest on 31 May 1898—was an indication of her standing in radical circles.
Forward, Stephanie. “A Study in Yellow: Mona Caird’s ’The Yellow Drawing-Room’”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
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, No. 2, pp. 295-07.
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She served as president of the Independent Anti-Vivisection League , and in 1913 gave the presidential address to the Personal Rights Association .
Forward, Stephanie. “A Study in Yellow: Mona Caird’s ’The Yellow Drawing-Room’”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
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, No. 2, pp. 295-07.
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Heilmann, Ann. New Woman Strategies: Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner, Mona Caird. Manchester University Press.
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Like other feminists of her day, she associated oppression of women with cruelty to animals and with the cruelty of what, with regard to the Boer War, she called warfare and stupid retaliation.
Heilmann, Ann. New Woman Strategies: Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner, Mona Caird. Manchester University Press.
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After the First World War she lobbied vainly, like many others, against the crushing of the erstwhile enemy and in favour of the building of international co-operation.
Heilmann, Ann. New Woman Strategies: Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner, Mona Caird. Manchester University Press.
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Sarah Grand

SG campaigned against vivisection both in her public life and in her fiction. The campaign aimed at halting scientific and medical experiments on live dogs, a practice which had become popular in the 1860s. Tolerance for such experiments was assured in August 1876 with the passing of the Cruelty to Animals Act, which regulated but did not prohibit it, giving scientists and doctors legal protection. Women's rights activists were attracted to the anti-vivisection movement partly because it called into question the privilege accorded male doctors: animals were occasionally a symbol for women whose bodies were less valued than scientific progress.
Mitchell, Sally, and Sarah Grand. “Introduction”. The Beth Book, Thoemmes, p. v - xxiv.
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Ouida

Ouida was a convinced believer in British imperial power who was nonetheless a sceptic about the effects of world trade, deploring the greedy and shameless parcelling out of Africa by a mob of European speculators.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(6 March 1891): 12
She took up with enthusiasm the causes of international copyright laws, anti-vivisection, and opposition to cruelty to animals.

Christina Rossetti

CR , despite her poor health and her disavowal of the role of political poet, was keenly interested in political events and connected herself with contemporary political movements in a range of ways. Her father's patriotism gave her and her siblings a keen interest in Italian unification. In her later life she was most closely tied into the Victorian feminist movement, maintaining lasting friendships with several members of the Langham Place Group . She contributed to a number of their publications, which in itself suggests her general support of the movement, as Diane D'Amico has argued, since she withdrew from other publishing venues of whose positions she disapproved. In 1867 she declined to contribute to the foundation of Girton College —not out of opposition to higher education for women, but because it was not a specifically Anglican enterprise. Her work in the Madgalen home, defying the sexual taboo that separated pure upper-class women from impure working-class ones, linked her to a central feminist impetus of her day, as did her activity from 1875 in the anti-vivisection movement, for which she circulated materials and petitions and contributed a specially-written poem to a fund-raiser.
In 1894 she tried to cut herself off from the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge , which had published several of her devotional works, because they published a piece which accepted the idea of vivisection.
Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking.
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Felicia Skene

FS also supported the anti-vivisection campaign of Frances Power Cobbe .

Julia Wedgwood

Nevertheless, she involved herself in political movements: the suffrage and anti-vivisection campaigns. Her enthusiasm for the suffrage cause waned in later life, however, though she remained a committee vivisectionist and left her money to that cause at her death.
She wrote on the subject of the Conciliation Bill, I have sadly and reluctantly given up my wish, which in former days was an endeavour, for Female Suffrage.
Herford, Charles Harold, and Julia Wedgwood. “Frances Julia Wedgwood: A Memoir by the Editor”. The Personal Life of Josiah Wedgwood the Potter, Macmillan, p. xi - xxx.
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Herford, Charles Harold, and Julia Wedgwood. “Frances Julia Wedgwood: A Memoir by the Editor”. The Personal Life of Josiah Wedgwood the Potter, Macmillan, p. xi - xxx.
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