Hayman, Carole, and Dale Spender, editors. How the Vote Was Won: and Other Suffragette Plays. Methuen.
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Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Beatrice Harraden | This was nine days after Harraden had performed the daily opening of the Exhibition as the celebrity designated for that date, and had donated the manuscript of the play, bound in green leather, to be... |
| Literary responses | Beatrice Harraden | The play's outspoken support of the Women's Social and Political Union
was apparently not popular with the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
. |
| politics | Beatrice Harraden | BH
was the celebrity chosen to perform the daily opening of the Women's Social and Political Union
Exhibition at Prince's Skating Rink in London. Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928. Routledge. 276 |
| Performance of text | Beatrice Harraden | BH
's one-act suffrage play Lady Geraldine's Speech was performed at Prince's Skating Rink as part of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)
Exhibition. Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928. Routledge. 276 |
| Cultural formation | Beatrice Harraden | 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)
. |
| politics | Beatrice Harraden | BH
seems to have been patriotic (at least in contrast with those of her friends who were pacifists) and pro-Empire: that is, apart from the issue of women's suffrage, fairly conservative in politics. But as... |
| politics | Cicely Hamilton | CH
was an active member of several suffrage organizations, always aligning herself with the non-militant suffragists. She first belonged to the Women's Social and Political Union
, but in 1907 she left to join the... |
| Textual Production | Cicely Hamilton | The original sheet, music and words, as sold by the Woman's Press
at the price of one penny, was reproduced for the centenary of the Women's Social and Political Union
, in 2003. Purvis, June. “Introduction: The Suffragette and Women’s History”. Women’s History Review, Vol. 14 , No. 3/4, pp. 357-61. 364 |
| politics | Sarah Grand | In an interview in 1896, SG
made clear her belief in the need for female suffrage: We shall do no good until we get the Franchise, for however well-intentioned men may be, they cannot understand... |
| politics | Eva Gore-Booth | EGB
and Esther Roper
again offered some support to Christabel Pankhurst
and Annie Kenney
after their landmark protest at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester on 13 October 1905. But in 1906, they and other... |
| 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. |
| Employer | Mary Gawthorpe | MG
resigned her position with the Women's Social and Political Union
(she had been trying to continue working while bedridden). 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 |
| Violence | Mary Gawthorpe | While still employed on The Freewoman though not by the increasingly militant WSPU
, MG
engaged in smashing windows of government buildings in support of a (male) hunger striker. 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. 451 |
| Occupation | Mary Gawthorpe | After her momentous decision, at the age of nineteen, that she must support her mother instead of going on to university, MG
decided to leave St Michael's (though they offered to raise her salary to... |
| politics | Mary Gawthorpe | The Women's Social and Political Union
was only just spreading from Manchester, its birthplace in Lancashire, across the Pennines into Yorkshire. MG
worked with Christabel Pankhurst
in Glamorgan, Wales, to mobilize mining... |
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