Actresses' Franchise League

The Actresses' Franchise League produced Mrs. Appleyard's Awakening, a one-act play by EG in which an Anti-Suffrage Society campaigner accidentally converts her canvassee to the suffrage cause.

The production was part of the Coronation Week festivities: earlier that week, on 17 June, many women's suffrage societies joined forces for an enormous Women's Coronation Procession.Miss Appleyard's Awakening...

The play's vivid characters and snappy dialogue, alongside its minimal staging requirements, made it one of the most popular plays in the AFL's suffrage repertoire. That year, the Connoisseurs theatre group mounted a production...

Later that year it toured provincial suffrage societies for the Actresses' Franchise League , under the direction of Edith Craig . It eventually became a staple piece for Craig's Pioneer Players .

An earlier version involving tableaux had been given at Caxton Hall in February this year. The Scala production was sponsored by the Actresses' Franchise League . The cast included Ellen Terry , Lillah McCarthy ,...

CH 's performance piece known as The Anti-Suffrage Waxworks was taken on tour by Edith Craig for the Actresses' Franchise League .

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...

Like Nora, Hedda Gabler became a feminist icon. At the Coronation Suffrage Pageant, the spectacular suffrage event of 17 June 1911, the contingent from the Actresses' Franchise League was led by an actress on horseback...

The Women's Emergency Corps was founded by a group of women, including actresses Eva and Decima Moore and (according to Jacob) Gertrude Kingston . Jacob's fellow volunteers there included Stella Benson and Viola Meynell ....

During the war this play became popular with British troops through the auspices of Woman's Theatre Camp Entertainments , an organization formed by Inez Bensusan after the demise of Actresses' Franchise League .

The play was performed alongside Cicely Hamilton 's Pageant of Great Women as part of a fundraising event organised by Inez Bensusan on behalf of the Actresses' Franchise League and the Women Writers' Suffrage League

It had gone into rehearsal shortly before the end of 1911. Several of the women who acted in this production were members of the Actresses' Franchise League . One of the principal actors, GS

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

It was part of a triple bill with Cicely Hamilton 's Jack and Jill and a Friend and Margaret Wynne Nevinson 's In the Workhouse. Another performance, again directed by Edith Craig, was staged...

EWW set out with conservative views on the Woman Question, though her early experience on a western farm meant that she took it for granted that women would be active and self-reliant. Her gender...