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Women's Social and Political Union
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Wheeler | Lady Constance Lytton
(1869 - 1923), a suffragist active in the Women's Social and Political Union
, was AW
's great-grand-daughter. |
politics | Harriet Shaw Weaver | HSW
subscribed to the Women's Social and Political Union
's Votes for Women. Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking. 46 |
Textual Features | Rose Tremain | This book opens by looking back just over a century, when John Stuart Mill
presented petitions to parliament on behalf of women's suffrage in 1866 and 1867. It relates the story of the suffragist movement... |
politics | Christopher St John | She was arrested in 1909 for setting a pillar box on fire. She worked for the Women's Social and Political Union
, the Writers' Franchise League
(which she helped found), the Catholic Women's Suffrage Society |
Textual Production | Ethel Smyth | Three Songs by ES
(which also appeared in print this year) were performed at the Aeolian Hall in London. Smyth had just finished the two years she took from music to give to the... |
Friends, Associates | Ethel Smyth | During her work with the Women's Social and Political Union
, ES
became devoted to Emmeline Pankhurst
, co-founder of the WSPU
. Emmeline Pankhurst's daughter Sylvia
paints ES
's devotion in rather unflattering terms:... |
Textual Production | Ethel Smyth | |
politics | Ethel Smyth | ES
joined the Women's Social and Political Union
. Collis, Louise. Impetuous Heart: The Story of Ethel Smyth. William Kimber. 99-100 |
Performance of text | Ethel Smyth | ES
first performed her anthem The March of the Women (written for the WSPU
, with words by Cicely Hamilton
); she dedicated it to Emmeline Pankhurst
. Marcus, Jane, editor. “Introduction / Appendix”. Suffrage and the Pankhursts, Routledge and Kegan Paul, pp. 1 - 17, 306. 310 Sadie, Julie Anne, and Rhian Samuel, editors. The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. Macmillan. 430-1 |
politics | Evelyn Sharp | ES
committed herself to the suffragist cause by joining the WSPU
, after being sent by the Manchester Guardian to cover the annual conference of the National Union of Women Workers
at Tunbridge Wells. John, Angela V. Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 18691955. Manchester University Press. 52 Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head. 102, 128-9 |
politics | Evelyn Sharp | |
Friends, Associates | Evelyn Sharp | Others with whom she shared this or that memorable experience were the Meynells (Wilfrid
, Alice
, and Viola
), Clarence Rook
and his wife, and Henry W. Nevinson
, whom she eventually married... |
politics | Evelyn Sharp | Later, from 1910 to 1913, she was secretary of the Kensington branch of the WSPU
. She was present (as reported by Violet Hunt
) at the suffrage meeting in the Albert Hall in early... |
politics | Evelyn Sharp | She later wrote that she was less able to endure her two weeks in prison with equanimity than were most of the more than three hundred suffragists arrested with her. Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head. 140-3 |
Textual Production | Evelyn Sharp | In March 1912 when Emmeline
and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence
were arrested, ES
became, almost at a moment's notice, acting editor (officially assistant editor) of Votes for Women, the official organ of the WSPU
. She... |
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...
National or international item
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...
National or international item
19 May 1906
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
, newly-elected Prime Minister, received a deputation of suffragists.
: The Women's Social and Political Union moved...
National or international item
Summer1906
The Women's Social and Political Union
moved its headquarters to London; this relocation was emblematic of its shift away from its Independent Labour Party
and working-class origins.
23 October 1906: During a demonstration at the opening of...
National or international item
23 October 1906
During a demonstration at the opening of Parliament
, eleven Women's Social and Political Union
supporters were for the first time arrested and imprisoned: for two months in Holloway
.
October 1907: Votes for Women, the official organ of the...
Building item
October 1907
Votes for Women, the official organ of the Women's Social and Political Union
, began publication in London.
October 1907: Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst and Emmeline...
National or international item
October 1907
Emmeline
and Christabel Pankhurst
and Emmeline
and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence
, wanting to maintain control over the Women's Social and Political Union
agenda, removed by fiat dissident members of the executive and cancelled the forthcoming annual conference.
November 1907: Charlotte Despard and Teresa Billington Greig...
National or international item
November 1907
Charlotte Despard
and Teresa Billington Greig
left the Women's Social and Political Union
to form the Women's Freedom League
.
March 1908: Mary Louisa Gordon, who had qualified as...
Building item
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.
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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...
National or international item
30 June 1908
The first act of damage was committed by Women's Social and Political Union
supporters Edith New
and Mary Leigh
, when they stoned the windows of 10 Downing Street.
11 November 1908: Hanna Sheehy Skeffington and Margaret Cousins...
National or international item
11 November 1908
Hanna Sheehy Skeffington
and Margaret Cousins
formed the Irish Women's Franchise League
, a militant, non-partisan organisation which wanted women's suffrage included in the Home Rule Bill.
May 1909: The Women's Social and Political Union held...
Building item
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...
National or international item
18 September 1909
Women's Social and Political Union
members Mary Leigh
and Charlotte Marsh
, imprisoned in Winson Green
, Birmingham, began fasting; they were ordered by Home Secretary Herbert Gladstone
to be forcibly fed.
About 9 October 1909: In response to Women's Social and Political...
National or international item
About 9 October 1909
In response to Women's Social and Political Union
militancy, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
passed a resolution stating that it would employ only constitutional means towards achieving the vote.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland.
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