National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies

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 .

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...

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.

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.

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...

The congress was organized by a pacifist group that had split from the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS ) over the issue of supporting the British war effort. Margaret Llewelyn Davies ,...

As president of the Tunbridge Wells branch of the NUWSS , SG recruited a large contingent of pilgrims to march in the Women's Pilgrimage to Hyde Park, London.

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. It became...

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

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...

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...

After returning to the executive committee of the NUWSS in 1912, IOF spoke in favour of a resolution which pledged the union to support Labour candidates in most constituencies, unless an old friend of the...

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.

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 .

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...