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politics | Eleanor Rathbone | Her friend and biographer Mary Stocks
observes that [i]n due course, she became its leading spirit, Stocks, Mary. Eleanor Rathbone: A Biography. Gollancz. 64 |
politics | Isabella Ormston Ford | IOF
, along with thirteen other executive members, resigned from the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
because they believed the demand for the vote should be linked with the advocacy of the deeper principles... |
politics | Isabella Ormston Ford | Along with several retiring members of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
, IOF
joined the the newly-formed British Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
, who were committed to advocating negotiated peace... |
politics | Maude Royden | MR
spoke in support of the NUWSS
's Election Fighting Fund policy at the meeting of the NUWSS and the Labour Party
at the Royal Albert Hall. “The Papers of Agnes Maude Royden”. Archives Hub: London Metropolitan University: Women’s Library. Fletcher, Sheila. Maude Royden: A Life. Basil Blackwell. 100 |
politics | Isabella Ormston Ford | She became Vice-President in 1907. The Society, which had only a few active members, nevertheless organized petitions, put on public speeches, and took part in election campaigns to advocate female suffrage sentiment. Hannam, June. Isabella Ford. Basil Blackwell. 136 |
politics | Isabella Ormston Ford | |
politics | Maude Royden | In 1912, MR
wrote two letters to the editor of the Times to defend the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
and its publications against the critical judgements of the well-known anti-suffragist writer Mary Augusta Ward |
politics | Elizabeth Baker | EB
's plays reflect her commitment to socialist and feminist ideas. Her involvement in the suffrage movement included contributing a one-act play, Edith, to a Women Writers' Suffrage League
fundraiser and subscribing to the... |
politics | Clementina Black | She also served as an executive member of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
. She became vice-president of this organization in 1911. Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press. 21 |
politics | Isabella Ormston Ford | Early in the war, particularly up to the end of 1914, members of the mainstream suffrage movementt—with the notable exception of the WSPU
—were united in their desire for peace. The immediate reaction of the... |
politics | Christabel Pankhurst | CP
, Emmeline Pankhurst
, and Flora Drummond
organized a rush on the House of Commons to begin at this time, infuriating members of the NUWSS
by their militant WSPU
tactics. Castle, Barbara. Sylvia and Christabel Pankhurst. Penguin. 71-2 Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland. 50-1 |
politics | Jessie Boucherett | JB
's associates in maintaining the original committee's name and agenda included Millicent Garrett Fawcett
, Frances Power Cobbe
, Lydia Becker
, Helen Blackburn
, and Caroline Ashurst Biggs
. Levine, Philippa. Victorian Feminism 1850-1900. Hutchinson. 64, 66 Historian Philippa Levine |
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... |
politics | Emmeline Pankhurst | The WSPU was militant, unlike the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
, a federation of suffrage societies led by Lydia Becker
and later by Millicent Garrett Fawcett
. Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst. Kraus Reprint. 50n1 |
politics | Clara Codd | After attending her first WSPU
meeting, CC
was drawn to Annie Kenney
. This influenced her joining the Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women’s Suffrage Movement. the Taylor & Francis Group. 134 |
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