Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta, 1995.
67, 246
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Family and Intimate relationships | Eleanor Rathbone | Margaret Ashton
, a Manchester cousin, resigned from the Liberal party over the issue of suffrage in 1906. Two years later she became the first woman elected to the Manchester City Council
. She was... |
Friends, Associates | Maude Royden | Courtney
and Royden served together as executive members of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS)
, of which in 1911 Courtney became secretary. They also worked together as vice-chairs for the Women's International League (WIL) |
Occupation | Kathleen E. Innes | Kathleen Royds
(later Innes) moved to London to become office secretary of the Women's International League
, British Section. Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta, 1995. 67, 246 |
Occupation | Kathleen E. Innes | KEI
was elected Vice-Chair of the Women's International League
, British Section; she remained in this position until 1934. Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta, 1995. 87 |
Occupation | Kathleen E. Innes | KEI
was elected as Women's International League
Chair at the Annual Council meeting held in London. Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta, 1995. 251 |
Occupation | Kathleen E. Innes | KEI
took on the Honorary Secretaryship of the Women's International League
at a divisive Annual Council Meeting at which the WIL Chair, Honorary Secretary, and Honorary Treasurer all resigned. Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta, 1995. 136, 251 |
Occupation | Maude Royden | Though she had not attended the Women's International Congress
because of prohibitions on travel in the North Sea, MR
became the vice-president of the Women's International League (WIL)
. “The Papers of Agnes Maude Royden”. Archives Hub: London Metropolitan University: Women’s Library. |
Occupation | Kathleen E. Innes | Members of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Executive Committee elected KEI
and Barbara Duncan Harris
to Co-Presidency in Europe of the Peoples' Mandate to Governments
. Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta, 1995. 130-1, 252 |
Occupation | Maude Royden | MR
succeeded Helena Swanwick
in the position of chairman of the Women's International League (WIL)
. Fletcher, Sheila. Maude Royden: A Life. Basil Blackwell, 1989. 219 |
Occupation | Kathleen E. Innes | At the triennial international congress of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
held in Luhacovice, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic), KEI
was elected as one of three International Vice-Chairs. Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta, 1995. 252 |
Occupation | Kathleen E. Innes | The Women's International League
headquarters in London suffered damage in an air raid, and at KEI
's invitation was moved to her house, Portway, at St Mary Bourne in Hampshire. Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta, 1995. 165, 254 |
Occupation | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | EPL
became the treasurer of the newly-established British branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
. She held this position until 1922. Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion, 1976. 315-16 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Occupation | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
elected EPL
president; she held this position for nine years, after which she stepped down and became vice-president. Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion, 1976. 331 |
politics | Naomi Mitchison | In 1917 NM
joined the movement to establish a League of Nations
. In the twenties she participated in the Women's International League
, an organization of feminist outlook which was working to establish such... |
politics | Virginia Woolf | With the declaration of war, however, on 4 August, 1914, VW
's politics and those of the NUWSS parted company. The NUWSS supported the government, and on August the sixth resolved to suspend political activity... |
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