Women's Cooperative Guild

Connections

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Family and Intimate relationships Sir J. M. Barrie
Without children of his own, Barrie had a habit of monopolising the children of friends, for whom he invented elaborate games. Among children so situated were Bevil Quiller-Couch (who was later the fiancé of the...
Family and Intimate relationships Emily Davies
Intertextuality and Influence Sarah Waters
Nance is almost a colourless character apart from her capacity for passion. (In an apparently non-literary book, a tradition of steamy fiction is evoked when her desire to make Kitty sorry makes her think of...
Occupation Mary Stott
This included weekly reports of the activities of the Women's Cooperative Guild , and brought her the long-term friendship of a colleague, Nora Crossley . Mary Waddington got the job partly by saying she had...
Occupation Mary Stott
This was, she said, an astonishing appointment for her, which she would never have got except at the tail end of the war when so many good men were still in the Forces. She was...
Occupation Eleanor Rathbone
Rathbone and Macadam collaborated on many social and political projects, most with feminist aims. They began by stabilising the Settlement's budget and community programmes. The two then served on the founding committee of the School of Social Studies and Training for Social Work
politics Eleanor Rathbone
By 1936, the Committee advocated state-sponsored lunch programmes in schools, along with the provision of milk for pregnant women and for children under school age. ER was joined in these efforts by the Fabian Barbara Drake
politics Virginia Woolf
Virginia's work consisted mainly of addressing envelopes, and she committed herself only to some weeks of this at the beginning and end of 1910. But she was also associated with the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
Publishing Evelyn Sharp
Her Daily Bread (an account of the co-operative movement and the Women's Co-operative Guild ) also appeared in 1928, from Ernest Benn , as number six in the series Self and Society Booklets, with...
Residence Constance Holme
For her first twenty years of married life, CH lived at The Gables, Kirkby Lonsdale.
Margaret Llewelyn Davies was then running the Women's Cooperative Guild at Kirkby Lonsdale.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

Timeline

6 January 1883: Alice Acland, in the Women's Corner column...

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6 January 1883

Alice Acland , in the Women's Corner column of the Co-operative News, criticised women's limited role in the Co-operative Movement.
Webb, Catherine. The Woman with the Basket: The History of the Women’s Co-operative Guild 1883-1927. Co-operative Wholesale Society’s Printing Works, 1927.
17-9
Blaszak, Barbara J. The Matriarchs of England’s Cooperative Movement: A Study in Gender Politics and Female Leadership, 1883-1921. Greenwood Press, 2000.
35-6
Gaffin, Jean et al. “Women and Cooperation”. Women in the Labour Movement: The British Experience, edited by Lucy Middleton, Croom Helm, 1977, pp. 113-42.
113

June 1883: The Women's League for the Spread of Co-operation,...

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June 1883

The Women's League for the Spread of Co-operation , later the Women's Cooperative Guild , was formally inaugurated at the Co-operative Congress in Edinburgh.
Webb, Catherine. The Woman with the Basket: The History of the Women’s Co-operative Guild 1883-1927. Co-operative Wholesale Society’s Printing Works, 1927.
20-1
Blaszak, Barbara J. George Jacob Holyoake (1817-1906) and the Development of the British Cooperative Movement. E. Mellen, 1988.
11

August 1884: The Women's Co-operative Guild (WCG) was...

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August 1884

The Women's Co-operative Guild (WCG) was chosen as the new name for the Women's League for the Spread of Co-operation .
Webb, Catherine. The Woman with the Basket: The History of the Women’s Co-operative Guild 1883-1927. Co-operative Wholesale Society’s Printing Works, 1927.
25
Gaffin, Jean et al. “Women and Cooperation”. Women in the Labour Movement: The British Experience, edited by Lucy Middleton, Croom Helm, 1977, pp. 113-42.
114

15 April 1886: The first conference of the Women's Co-operative...

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15 April 1886

The first conference of the Women's Co-operative Guild was held at Hooper Square, Leman Street, London.
Webb, Catherine. The Woman with the Basket: The History of the Women’s Co-operative Guild 1883-1927. Co-operative Wholesale Society’s Printing Works, 1927.
28, 145
Blaszak, Barbara J. The Matriarchs of England’s Cooperative Movement: A Study in Gender Politics and Female Leadership, 1883-1921. Greenwood Press, 2000.
71
Scott, Gillian. Feminism and the Politics of Working Women: The Women’s Cooperative Guild, 1880s to the Second World War. UCL Press, 1998.
16

Probably 1888: The Women's Co-operative Guild (WCG) made...

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Probably 1888

The Women's Co-operative Guild (WCG) made its first international contact: Emilie Holyoake spoke about the WCG at the French Co-operative congress at Tours.
Blaszak, Barbara J. George Jacob Holyoake (1817-1906) and the Development of the British Cooperative Movement. E. Mellen, 1988.
87
Webb, Catherine. The Woman with the Basket: The History of the Women’s Co-operative Guild 1883-1927. Co-operative Wholesale Society’s Printing Works, 1927.
29-30
Holyoake (later Emilie Holyoake-Marsh) was the daughter of George Jacob Holyoake

1889: Margaret Llewelyn Davies, a Christian Socialist,...

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1889

Margaret Llewelyn Davies , a Christian Socialist, became general secretary of the Women's Co-operative Guild (WCG).
Blaszak, Barbara J. The Matriarchs of England’s Cooperative Movement: A Study in Gender Politics and Female Leadership, 1883-1921. Greenwood Press, 2000.
115
Webb, Catherine. The Woman with the Basket: The History of the Women’s Co-operative Guild 1883-1927. Co-operative Wholesale Society’s Printing Works, 1927.
31-2, 184

1889: Sarah Reddish of Bolton was elected to the...

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1889

Sarah Reddish of Bolton was elected to the Central Committee of the Women's Co-operative Guild .
Webb, Catherine. The Woman with the Basket: The History of the Women’s Co-operative Guild 1883-1927. Co-operative Wholesale Society’s Printing Works, 1927.
33
Gaffin, Jean et al. “Women and Cooperation”. Women in the Labour Movement: The British Experience, edited by Lucy Middleton, Croom Helm, 1977, pp. 113-42.
116

25 July 1889: The Women's Franchise League, an organisation...

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25 July 1889

The Women's Franchise League , an organisation committed to including married women in future women's suffrage proposals, was formed in London by Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy , Alice Scatcherd , and Harriet M'Ilquham and others.
Holton, Sandra Stanley. Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Routledge, 1996.
76

Late 1889: An informal alliance was made between the...

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Late 1889

An informal alliance was made between the Women's Co-operative Guild and the recently-formed Women's Trade Union Association , a sister organisation of working women.
Webb, Catherine. The Woman with the Basket: The History of the Women’s Co-operative Guild 1883-1927. Co-operative Wholesale Society’s Printing Works, 1927.
31
Forster, Margaret. Significant Sisters. Secker and Warburg, 1984.
prelims

1890: Men were invited for the first time to the...

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1890

Men were invited for the first time to the Women's Co-operative Guild (WCG) annual meeting, held in Glasgow.
Webb, Catherine. The Woman with the Basket: The History of the Women’s Co-operative Guild 1883-1927. Co-operative Wholesale Society’s Printing Works, 1927.
33

1892: The Women's Co-operative Guild (WCG) and...

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1892

The Women's Co-operative Guild (WCG) and the Women's Trade Union Association worked to unionize factory girls.
Webb, Catherine. The Woman with the Basket: The History of the Women’s Co-operative Guild 1883-1927. Co-operative Wholesale Society’s Printing Works, 1927.
34, 107
Scott, Gillian. Feminism and the Politics of Working Women: The Women’s Cooperative Guild, 1880s to the Second World War. UCL Press, 1998.
94-6

1892: The Women's Co-operative Guild held a festival...

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1892

The Women's Co-operative Guild held a festival in Manchester to mark its first decade.
Webb, Catherine. The Woman with the Basket: The History of the Women’s Co-operative Guild 1883-1927. Co-operative Wholesale Society’s Printing Works, 1927.
35, 75
Scott, Gillian. Feminism and the Politics of Working Women: The Women’s Cooperative Guild, 1880s to the Second World War. UCL Press, 1998.
17, 94

1893: 2,200 people signed the Women's Co-operative...

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1893

2,200 people signed the Women's Co-operative Guild 's (WCG) national petition for women's suffrage.
Webb, Catherine. The Woman with the Basket: The History of the Women’s Co-operative Guild 1883-1927. Co-operative Wholesale Society’s Printing Works, 1927.
97

1893: The Women's Co-operative Guild (WCG) held...

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1893

The Women's Co-operative Guild (WCG) held its first independent Congress at Leicester.
Webb, Catherine. The Woman with the Basket: The History of the Women’s Co-operative Guild 1883-1927. Co-operative Wholesale Society’s Printing Works, 1927.
146-8
Scott, Gillian. Feminism and the Politics of Working Women: The Women’s Cooperative Guild, 1880s to the Second World War. UCL Press, 1998.
76

1896: Sarah Reddish's paper Right of Women to Membership...

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1896

Sarah Reddish 's paper Right of Women to Membership was read at the Women's Co-operative Guild Annual Meeting at Burnley, as part of WCG campaign to allow women to hold personal memberships in the Co-operative Union .
Webb, Catherine. The Woman with the Basket: The History of the Women’s Co-operative Guild 1883-1927. Co-operative Wholesale Society’s Printing Works, 1927.
79-80

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