Women's Freedom League

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...

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

MS became a member of the Women Writers' Suffrage League some time after it was founded in June 1908. That year she also joined the Women's Freedom League , collected money in the streets...

The book was a particular delight to women readers, but its popularity extended to people of both genders and all classes. Lady Constance Lytton later recalled that her father and the artist George Frederic Watts

While the WSPU 's recruitment increased during 1907, its governing members began to disagree over its direction: one party wanted the Union to be run democratically with a constitution, while the other, headed by Emmeline

The Times carried KOB 's obituary of feminist Marian Reeves , president of the Women's Freedom League , who died in Killarney three days after unveiling a memorial at the grave of Charlotte Despard .

Reeves, aged eighty-two and with a heart condition, had attended a women's conference in Dublin, unveiled the plaque in honour of Despard (founder of the Women's Freedom League and a personal friend), and slipped...

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

EGM 's undated pamphlet Woman's Value in War Time, published in London by the Women's Freedom League , presumably dated from the First World War years. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography lists more...

EGM accepted a post with the Women's Freedom League in Scotland as secretary for scattered members—those living outside large cities.

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.

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...

When her mother dies leaving her some money, Janet writes to her husband (who still idolises her, but looks down upon her from a mental height and explains things in the simplest possible way, with...

VH shared a self-described passion for women's suffrage with Sinclair, her longtime friend. Sinclair introduced her to the Women's Suffrage League , the Women's Freedom League , and the Women's Social and Political Union

BH was identified in an interview of 1897 as a pronounced Suffragist. She was a prominent member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and the Women's Freedom League (to both of which...