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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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 | 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. 380 |
Occupation | Ray Strachey | Philippa Strachey
was also active in the bureau, which shifted after the war to dealing with the problems of women newly unemployed because of men returning from the armed forces. Edith Lyttelton
joined in the... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ray Strachey | The book starts with an account of Mary Wollstonecraft
's work, and proceeds decade by decade, citing Florence Nightingale
, Josephine Butler
, John Stuart Mill
, Sophia Jex-Blake
, and many others. Its heroine... |
Occupation | Maude Royden | MR
, a staunch supporter of women's rights and suffrage, began speaking regularly for the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS)
. She served on the executive committee from 1911 to 1915. Royden, Maude. Sex and Common-Sense. G. P. Putnam’s Sons. prelims “The Papers of Agnes Maude Royden”. Archives Hub: London Metropolitan University: Women’s Library. Fletcher, Sheila. Maude Royden: A Life. Basil Blackwell. 90, 121 |
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. “The Papers of Agnes Maude Royden”. Archives Hub: London Metropolitan University: Women’s Library. Fletcher, Sheila. Maude Royden: A Life. Basil Blackwell. 100 |
Textual Production | Maude Royden | The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS)
printed the first edition of "Votes and Wages": How Women's Suffrage will Improve the Economic Position of Women, a pamphlet by A. Maude Royden. Royden, Maude. "Votes and Wages". National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies. title-page and prelims |
Friends, Associates | Maude Royden | Courtney
and Royden served together as executive members of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS)
, of which in 1911 Courtney became secretary. They also worked together as vice-chairs for the Women's International League (WIL) |
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 |
Health | Maude Royden | |
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... |
Textual Production | Maude Royden | In 1912 MR
published with the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
one of her earliest explicitly pacifist pamphlets: Physical Force and Democracy. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
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/. |
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. 157 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Eleanor Rathbone | Margaret Ashton
, a Manchester cousin, resigned from the Liberal party over the issue of suffrage in 1906. Two years later she became the first woman elected to the Manchester City Council
. She was... |