Crawford, Elizabeth, and Kate Parry Frye. The Great War: The People’s Story—Kate Parry Frye: The Long Life of an Edwardian Actress and Suffragette. ITV.
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politics | Kate Parry Frye | KPF
's last official suffrage campaign event was the Right to Serve March, a sad shadow of the glorious suffragette processions, |
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 |
politics | Kate Parry Frye | This event motivated her to leave the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
and join the Women's Social and Political Union
. Her true activism, however, began in 1911, when she began working for the... |
politics | Sylvia Pankhurst | Among the social reforms she effected, she founded many institutions which would later become commonplace in society: health clinics for mothers and infants with female doctors, a non-profit restaurant or cafeteria, a nursery school, and... |
politics | Dora Marsden | Continuing the pattern begun several months previously, Marsden received high praise from Union leaders while she also continued to come under their scrutiny. She was criticised within the movement for her apparent lack of financial... |
politics | Evelyn Sharp | |
politics | Sylvia Pankhurst | |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | By this date the prospects for female enfranchisement looked more promising than ever before: Parliament was considering the Conciliation Bill, which would allow property-owning women and wives of electors to vote. While the WSPU
found... |
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 | 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 | Sylvia Pankhurst | |
politics | Constance Lytton | CL
wrote later that the scales of ignorance began to be lifted from her eyes about the importance of the vote for women when Annie Kenney
told her that as a working-class woman she had... |
politics | Dora Marsden | Following her split with the WSPU
, DM
considered joining the Women's Freedom League
or the Fabian Society
, but instead began to plan for a radical feminist journal that would stimulate discussion of diverse... |
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