“The Papers of Agnes Maude Royden”. Archives Hub: London Metropolitan University: Women’s Library.
National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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. Fletcher, Sheila. Maude Royden: A Life. Basil Blackwell, 1989. 100 |
politics | Eva Gore-Booth | 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
,... |
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 | Sarah Grand | |
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 | 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, 1989. 136 |
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 | Isabella Ormston Ford | |
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, 1985–2025, 2 vols. 21 |
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, 1987. 64, 66 Historian Philippa Levine |
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... |
Author summary | Isabella Ormston Ford | Isabella Ormston Ford was a dedicated labour activist, suffragette, and anti-war advocate at the turn of the nineteenth century whose writing advocates her socialist-feminist ideals. She wrote newspaper articles, pamphlets, short stories, and novels, all... |
Publishing | Eleanor Rathbone | ER
first contributed to The Common Cause (journal of the National Union
of Women's Suffrage Societies). Alberti, Johanna. Eleanor Rathbone. Sage Press, 1996. 157 |
Publishing | Maude Royden | The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS)
, for which MR
served as an executive member and then as editor of The Common Cause, published many of her polemical pamphlets and writings on... |
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