qtd. in
Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928. Routledge, 2001.
276
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | |
politics | Cicely Hamilton | CH
was an active member of several suffrage organizations, always aligning herself with the non-militant suffragists. She first belonged to the Women's Social and Political Union
, but in 1907 she left to join the... |
politics | Beatrice Harraden | BH
was identified in an interview of 1897 as a pronounced Suffragist. qtd. in Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928. Routledge, 2001. 276 |
politics | Jane Hume Clapperton | She also joined the Central arm of this organization in 1890, subscribed to the Women's Emancipation Union
in 1894 and 1896, and subscribed to the Women's Social and Political Union
(WSPU) in 1907. By 1908... |
politics | Violet Hunt | VH
shared a self-described passion for women's suffrage Hunt, Violet. I Have This to Say. Boni and Liveright, 1926. 51 |
politics | Edith Craig | EC
and Christopher St John
worked with Charlotte Despard
's new Women's Freedom League
. Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell, 1998. 83 |
politics | Charlotte Despard | CD
was a leader among those dissenters from the WSPU who founded the Women's Freedom League
for constitutional militants. She was to become president of the new organization. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
politics | Dora Marsden | Following her split with the WSPU
, DM
considered joining the Women's Freedom League
or the Fabian Society
, but instead began to plan for a radical feminist journal that would stimulate discussion of diverse... |
politics | Eunice Guthrie Murray | EGM
accepted a post with the Women's Freedom League
in Scotland as secretary for scattered members—those living outside large cities. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
politics | Charlotte Despard | CD
stood as a pacifist Labour candidate on 14 December 1918, for the constituency she knew best, in Battersea, in the first British election in which women were entitled to do so, and was... |
politics | Eunice Guthrie Murray | EGM
(who this year became president in Scotland of the Women's Freedom League
) was arrested for speaking at a meeting outside the Prime Minister's house in Downing Street, London. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
politics | Eunice Guthrie Murray | Her interest in suffrage succeeded to an interest in the temperance movement. She became an active suffrage lecturer, and (with her mother and one of her sisters) joined the Women's Freedom League
(founded by Charlotte Despard |
politics | Marie Stopes | Stopes was a feminist and suffragist before she became a birth-control activist. Her retention of her own name after marriage was a political act. On the suffrage issue she was a non-militant, belonging to the... |
politics | Christopher St John | She was arrested in 1909 for setting a pillar box on fire. She worked for the Women's Social and Political Union
, the Writers' Franchise League
(which she helped found), the Catholic Women's Suffrage Society |
politics | May Sinclair | MS
became a member of the Women Writers' Suffrage League
some time after it was founded in June 1908. Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1973. 96 |