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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Education | Edith Craig | Craig then was tutored privately at Dixton Manor Hall at Winchcombe in Gloucestershire, the home of Mrs Cole's sister, Elizabeth Malleson
. Malleson had been an active member of the women's suffrage movement since... |
Friends, Associates | Clemence Dane | Toasts were proposed by suffragist Philippa Strachey
and by Ethel Watts
(chair of the Junior Council of the London and National Society for Women's Service
), the latter of whom hoped that in the future... |
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 |
Friends, Associates | Ella Hepworth Dixon | EHD
also counted among her friends Gertrude Kinnell
, constitutional suffragist and Chairman of the Society for Women's Suffrage
(elected in August 1914). EHD
once remembered how when the Suffragette movement was at its wildest... |
politics | Amelia B. Edwards | She also served as a vice-president of the West of England National Society for Woman's Suffrage
. Kirk, John Foster, and S. Austin Allibone, editors. A Supplement to Allibone’s Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors. J. B. Lippincott. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Emily Faithfull | EF
supported the suffrage cause by lecturing on women's suffrage and by reporting on the activities of the National Society for Women's Suffrage
in her periodicals. Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany. 152, 157 |
politics | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | MGF
was a member of the first Women's Suffrage Committee
, formed in July 1867 after John Stuart Mill proposed his suffrage amendment in parliament. She was the youngest woman at the initial gathering. At... |
politics | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | MGF
was acutely aware of the potential represented by members of parliament, as is shown in her initiative in founding the Speaker's Conference on Electoral Reform
in 1916, to bring together MPs who were prepared... |
politics | Kate Parry Frye | She found the occasion amusing and exhilarating; she rushed around and flirted with men; but she continued her account: But I am in earnest. I really do feel a great belief in the need of... |
Occupation | Eva Gore-Booth | At the Settlement in Manchester, EGB
supervised a young womens' theatre group and a poetry circle, and participated in a women's debating society called The Fawcett. The group was named after Millicent Garrett Fawcett |
Friends, Associates | Eva Gore-Booth | In 1901 future suffrage leader Christabel Pankhurst
met Esther Roper
at a meeting of the North of England Society for Women's Suffrage
(NESWS
). Roper introduced Pankhurst to EGB
immediately after this, and the... |
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 | 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 | 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... |
Education | Dora Marsden | Though some of DM
's activities and affiliations are unclear, studying and living in Manchester was a highly formative experience for her. By then the city had established strong ties with the labour and suffrage... |
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