Women Writers' Suffrage League

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Performance of text	George Paston	The play was performed alongside Cicely Hamilton 's Pageant of Great Women as part of a fundraising event organised by Inez Bensusan on behalf of the Actresses' Franchise League and the Women Writers' Suffrage League
Performance of text	Elizabeth Baker	EB 's one-act comedy Edith was performed at a fundraising event for the Women Writers' Suffrage League at the Prince's Theatre . Weiss, Rudolf. “Versions of Emancipation: The Dramatic World of Elizabeth Baker”. Sprachkunst, Vol. 20 , No. 2, 1989, pp. 305-16. 315 Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press, 1973. 490 Stowell, Sheila. A Stage of Their Own. University of Michigan Press, 1992. 102
politics	May Sinclair	MS was one of twelve Vice-Presidents of the Women Writers' Suffrage League when Flora Annie Steel took over the presidency from Elizabeth Robins . Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1973. 96
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 That year she also joined the Women's Freedom League , collected money in the streets...
politics	Elizabeth Robins	ER became president of the Women Writers' Suffrage League , founded this year by Cicely Hamilton and Bessie Hatton . John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge, 1995. 153
politics	Elizabeth Robins	Aligning herself with the non-militant Pethick-LawrencesFrederick William Pethick-Lawrence , ER resigned from the Women's Social and Political Union and the Women Writers' Suffrage League . John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge, 1995. 167-71
politics	George Paston	GP belonged to the Women Writers' Suffrage League and the London Women's Suffrage Society . Kaplan, Joel H., and Sheila Stowell. Theatre and Fashion: Oscar Wilde to the Suffragettes. Cambridge University Press, 1994. 163 Much of her writing reflects a feminist viewpoint.
politics	Sarah Grand	In an interview in 1896, SG made clear her belief in the need for female suffrage: We shall do no good until we get the Franchise, for however well-intentioned men may be, they cannot understand...
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	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	Stella Benson	SB had been a moderate until the death of the Derby Martyr, Emily Wilding Davison , in 1913. After this she became more militant. When she moved to London in May 1914, she called...
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 She was a prominent member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and the Women's Freedom League (to both of which...
politics	Stella Benson	After the First World War broke out in August 1914, SB sided with Flora Annie Steel in a Women Writers' Suffrage League dispute over supporting the war. Benson and Steel believed in supporting the war...
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	Violet Hunt	VH shared a self-described passion for women's suffrage Hunt, Violet. I Have This to Say. Boni and Liveright, 1926. 51 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

Timeline

June 1908

The Women Writers' Suffrage League was established by Cicely Hamilton and Bessie Hatton .

Norquay, Glenda. Voices and Votes: A Literary Anthology of the Women’s Suffrage Campaign. Manchester University Press, 1995.

Stowell, Sheila. A Stage of Their Own. University of Michigan Press, 1992.

2, 40, 102, 126n1

Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell, 1998.

Whitelaw, Lis. The Life and Rebellious Times of Cicely Hamilton. Women’s Press, 1990.

68-74

Liggins, Emma. “The ’Sordid Story’ of an Unwanted Child: Militancy, Motherhood, and Abortion in Elizabeth Robins’s Votes for Women and Way Stations”. Women’s Writing, Vol.

, No. 3, Aug. 2018, pp. 347-61.

349

17 June 1911

The Women's Coronation Procession was attended by 40,000 women from at least twenty-eight women's suffrage organisations, including both the Women's Social and Political Union and the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies .

Tickner, Lisa. The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign, 1907-1914. University of Chicago Press, 1988.

122-32

Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.

109

Texts

Sinclair, May. Feminism. Women Writers’ Suffrage League, 1912.