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politics | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | A new London National Society for Women's Suffrage
was formed, following the disbanding of BLSB
's provisional committee the previous month. Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press. 165 |
politics | Helen Taylor | HT
's radical socialist principles were evident in her work for educational and land reform, as well as in her effort in 1885 to stand for parliament. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
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... |
politics | Augusta Webster | Once she had established her reputation as a writer, AW
put her pen and her considerable speaking and practical skills to work for women and for the national education system. She advocated improved education and... |
politics | Jessie Boucherett | In 1888, the Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage
(a group whose name and composition had already undergone changes) separated into two entities. JB
was a part of the group which retained... |
politics | Eva Gore-Booth | The women formed this committee (a break-away group from the North of England Society for Women's Suffrage
) after backing Labour
candidate David Shackleton
in a by-election. In exchange for the support of EGB
... |
politics | Virginia Woolf | VW
appeared with Ethel Smyth
on the platform of the London and National Society for Women's Service
(LNSWS, later renamed the Fawcett Society
in honour of Millicent Garrett Fawcett
). Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus. 598 |
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 | Frances Power Cobbe | Firmly committed to doing everything in [her] power to protect the property, the persons and the parental rights of women, Cobbe, Frances Power. Life of Frances Power Cobbe. Houghton, Mifflin. 2: 526 |
politics | Henrietta Müller | Henrietta Müller
's public engagement with the social and political advancement of women was deeply involved and far reaching. She was committed to a host of feminist organizations, many of which she founded, and which... |
politics | Lydia Becker | LB
was appointed Secretary of the Manchester committee for the promotion of the enfranchisement of women, an early local branch of what was soon to become the National Society for Women's Suffrage
. Blackburn, Helen. Women’s Suffrage. Source Book Press. 59 |
politics | Lydia Becker | LB
brought to her suffrage activism a complete mastery Blackburn, Helen. Women’s Suffrage. Source Book Press. 188 Blackburn, Helen. Women’s Suffrage. Source Book Press. 188, 174 |
politics | Emily Davies | ED
joined the Executive Committee of the London National Society for Women's Suffrage
. Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable. 347-8 |
politics | Florence Nightingale | In early 1866 FN
signed John Stuart Mill
's petition for women's suffrage. She and Mill also exchanged a series of letters on the issue. Although she signed the petition, she thought that married women's... |
politics | Lydia Becker | In 1874 LB
supported a suffrage bill brought in by a Conservative MP, which would have given the vote to unmarried women and widows only (on the basis that a married woman would merely duplicate... |
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