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Occupation | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | EPL
stayed with the WSPU, which, after the split, composed a pledge which all members had to sign: I endorse the objects and methods of the Women's Social and Political Union
and hereby undertake not... |
Occupation | Dora Marsden | DM
was the major but not the sole driving force behind The Freewoman. The journal was launched with funds from Mary Gawthorpe
, who also served for some time as its co-editor. Gawthorpe's tenure... |
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... |
Occupation | Mary Gawthorpe | She then accepted Dora Marsden
's offer of a position as co-editor on The Freewoman, although she had turned down Marsden's first suggestion on the grounds that she wanted to finish [her] work in... |
Occupation | Clara Codd | In the summer of 1908 she went to Bristol to work for Kenney
. Along with other women including Mary Blathwayt
, CC
campaigned for the WSPU
. She went on to become the second-in-command... |
Occupation | Dora Marsden | After this, DM
's role within the WSPU
expanded markedly. She was a frequent public speaker and temporarily took over Mary Gawthorpe
's work as a Union organizer when Mary was ill. Her work was... |
Occupation | Dora Marsden | This image was both exploited and subverted to varying degrees by the press, the WSPU
, and Marsden herself. From this point forward, Marsden became a significant force within the Union as a paid organizer... |
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 |
Performance of text | Inez Bensusan | IB
's play The Apple was included in a late-night programme of sketches and songs performed as part of a weekend protest against the Census, organized by the Women's Social and Political Union
. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (30 Mar 1911): 14 |
Performance of text | Beatrice Harraden | In March 1908 BH
read a chapter of Ships that Pass in the Night at a concert given by the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)
. Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928. Routledge. 276 |
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 |
Performance of text | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | The National Women's Social and Political Union
published EPL
's pamphlet The New Crusade, which she had originally given as an address at Exeter Hall. Nelson, Carolyn Christensen, editor. Literature of the Women’s Suffrage Campaign in England. Broadview. 65 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
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 |
politics | Dora Marsden | Charges against the women were dropped owing to pressure from the University Chancellor, the Liberal writer and statesman Lord Morley
(now a Viscount), whose speech they had interrupted and who was said to be appalled... |
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 |
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