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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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 | 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 | 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 |
politics | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | 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. Weaver, John Reginald Homer, editor. The Dictionary of National Biography, Fourth Supplement, 1922-1930. Oxford University Press, H. Milford. Oakley, Ann et al. “Millicent Garrett Fawcett: Duty and Determination”. Feminist Theorists, edited by Dale Spender, Reprint, Pantheon Books, pp. 184-02. 190 Strachey, Ray. Millicent Garrett Fawcett. J. Murray. 178, 329-30 |
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 | 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... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | 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
... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | 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 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | Since her resignation as President of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
, she had more time for her writing, which she enjoyed. Strachey, Ray. Millicent Garrett Fawcett. J. Murray. 343-3 |
Textual Production | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | 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 |
politics | Isabella Ormston Ford | |
Employer | Isabella Ormston Ford | IOF
's usually unpaid work for the causes near and dear to her heart drew on a wide range of skills: as speaker and propagandist, administrator and organizer, and translator. Such work—during this later time... |
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 | 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. xii, 122 |