As a young man Arnold falls in love with the suffragist Beryl, a member of the WSPU
. Olga is jealously hostile and dismissive of his love, but when the Great War comes neither woman...
Cultural formation
Christabel Pankhurst
There is some suggestion that CP
may have had lesbian relationships. She excited devotion among her female followers, and at least one—novelist Elizabeth Robins
—admitted to falling in love with her. CP
also spent much...
BH
was born into the English commercial middle class. Although her novels do not engage in much detail with feminist issues, she was a keen suffragist, involved with the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)
.
Education
Christabel Pankhurst
In 1904, with urging from her recently-made friend Esther Roper
, CP
considered studying law at Lincoln's Inn, as her father had done before her. Her application was dismissed on the grounds that she would...
Education
Dora Marsden
Though some of DM
's activities and affiliations are unclear, studying and living in Manchester was a highly formative experience for her. By then the city had established strong ties with the labour and suffrage...
Employer
Mary Gawthorpe
MG
became a paid organizer for the national Women's Social and Political Union
. She worked for the WSPU until autumn 1911 and became one of its leading organizers and speakers.
Cowman, Krista. “A Footnote in History? Mary Gawthorpe, Sylvia Pankhurst, <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The Suffragette Movement</span> and the Writing of Suffragette History”. Women’s History Review, Vol.
14
, No. 3/4, pp. 447-66.
450
“Guide to the Papers of Mary E. Gawthorpe, 1881-1990”. The Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives.
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.
Cowman, Krista. “A Footnote in History? Mary Gawthorpe, Sylvia Pankhurst, <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The Suffragette Movement</span> and the Writing of Suffragette History”. Women’s History Review, Vol.
14
, No. 3/4, pp. 447-66.
450
Employer
Dora Marsden
DM
officially resigned from her position as a WSPU
organizer and began a comparatively independent exploration of feminist issues.
Garner, Les. A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960. Avebury.
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Employer
Constance Lytton
The Women's Social and Political Union
put CL
on its payroll as a paid organizer at two pounds a week plus expenses, making the appointment retrospective to the beginning of the year.
Lytton, Constance. Prisons and Prisoners. Heinemann.
311
Lytton, Constance. Letters of Constance Lytton. Editor Elizabeth Edith, Countess of Balfour, Heinemann.
Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928. Routledge.
166
Family and Intimate relationships
Christabel Pankhurst
In January 1914, CP
called Sylvia
to Paris to demand that Sylvia's East London Federation
should break its ties to the WSPU
. Although their mother's suffragist impulse had originally grown in close relation to...
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Timeline
2 November 1903: The London Daily Mirror began publication...
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2 November 1903
The LondonDaily Mirror began publication with a woman editor, Mary Howarth
, as a penny paper for gentlewomen by gentlewomen.
December 1903: Australian feminist and suffragist Vida Goldstein...
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December 1903
Australian feminist and suffragist Vida Goldstein
became the first woman in the British Empire to run for a national parliament, standing for the Senate while two other Australian women stood for the House of Representatives...
19 May 1906: Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, newly-elected...
March 1908: Mary Louisa Gordon, who had qualified as...
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March 1908
Mary Louisa Gordon
, who had qualified as both a physician and a midwife and had practised medicine in London since 1900, was appointed the first female prison inspector in Britain.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
21 June 1908: The Women's Social and Political Union organised...
National or international item
21 June 1908
The Women's Social and Political Union
organised a Woman's Sunday which involved (according to the Times estimate) between 250,000 and 500,000 people, mostly women. The WSPU called it Britain's largest-ever political meeting.
30 June 1908: The first act of damage was committed by...
May 1909: The Women's Social and Political Union held...
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May 1909
The Women's Social and Political Union
held a Votes for Women Exhibition at Prince's Skating Rink, Knightsbridge, London, which netted £5,607 for the suffrage cause.
18 September 1909: Women's Social and Political Union members...