National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies

MGF was President of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies . She held office until the NUWSS changed its name at a council meeting in January 1919, following the victory of 1918.

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...

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...

At the time of writing, the number of Women's Suffrage societies was growing very rapidly and MGF often received gifts of money to aid the work of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies ...

The chapters which follow these address the difficulties in the suffrage campaign that were brought about by women themselves. A chapter on the anti-suffragists explains the thinking of a group of women led by Mrs Humphry Ward

Since her resignation as President of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies , she had more time for her writing, which she enjoyed. This work was re-issued by Cambridge University Press in 2011,online...

After publishing her histories of Women's Suffrage, MGF received many requests from friends to add her own personal reminiscences. She refused until the Women's Leader, the journal published by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies

After attending her first WSPU meeting, CC was drawn to Annie Kenney . This influenced her joining the WSPU and later the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies .

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 .

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.

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...