National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies

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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 Eleanor Rathbone
ER became President of the Lancashire and Cheshire's regional federation of suffrage groups, which operated under the auspices of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies .
Stocks, Mary. Eleanor Rathbone: A Biography. Gollancz.
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politics Katharine Tynan
KT became a member of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (established by Millicent Garrett Fawcett in 1897) around 1910, on moving to Tunbridge Wells, where she found a strong Suffrage party.
Tynan, Katharine. The Middle Years. Constable.
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politics Millicent Garrett Fawcett
The organisation was formed by consolidating all the local societies working for Women's Suffrage. By 1907, however, MGF turned definitively against the policy of direct action, which had become linked especially with the name of...
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 Eleanor Rathbone
ER resigned from the NUWSS executive after opposing changes to the group's Election Fighting Fund. She later rejoined, however.
Alberti, Johanna. Eleanor Rathbone. Sage Press.
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politics Virginia Woolf
Virginia's work consisted mainly of addressing envelopes, and she committed herself only to some weeks of this at the beginning and end of 1910. But she was also associated with the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
politics Sarah Grand
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.
Kersley, Gillian. Darling Madame: Sarah Grand and Devoted Friend. Virago Press.
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politics Eleanor Rathbone
ER succeeded Millicent Garrett Fawcett as President of the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship (NUSEC )—formerly the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS )—a post she held for ten years.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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
IOF was elected to sit on the Executive Committee of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Hannam, June. Isabella Ford. Basil Blackwell.
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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.
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particularly as a public speaker and administrator. She also joined the Women's Industrial Council and the National Executive...
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 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...
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.
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