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Women Writers' Suffrage League

Connections

Connections	Author name Sort ascending	Excerpt
politics	Flora Annie Steel	FAS , as President of the Women Writers' Suffrage League , spoke at the Criterion Restaurant in London debate about the suffrage, against Mary Augusta Ward , who was speaking for the Anti-Suffrage Society . Powell, Violet. Flora Annie Steel: Novelist of India. Heinemann. 125
politics	Flora Annie Steel	FAS was a supporter of the women's suffrage movement and a member of the Women Writers' Suffrage League . Women's lack of the vote, she felt, was illogical, not to say grotesque—exactly the kind...
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 marched, along with her friends Alice Meynell , Alice Zimmern , and Marie Belloc Lowndes , in the From Prison to Citizenship procession as a member of the Women Writers' Suffrage League . Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press. 111
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. 96
Textual Production	May Sinclair	MS 's pamphlet Feminism, which puts the case for women's suffrage, was published by the Women Writers' Suffrage League , Women's Press . Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 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. 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. 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. 167-71
Textual Production	Elizabeth Robins	Betweem 1908 and 1910 ER gave a series of speeches to the Women Writers' Suffrage League (all later collected in Way Stations). 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. 25 , No. 3, pp. 347-61. 348-9
Textual Features	Elizabeth Robins	As preface it reprints Woman's Secret (first published in 1900 for the WSPU by the Garden City Press of Letchworth), which argues that women's disadvantaged position is not the result of a conspiracy by...
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. 163 Much of her writing reflects a feminist viewpoint.
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
Textual Production	Sarah Macnaughtan	SM gave a speech at a reception for the Women Writers' Suffrage League . The complete text is not known, but important parts of the speech were highlighted in an article by Evelyn Isitt which...
politics	Marie Belloc Lowndes	MBL was an active member of the Women Writers' Suffrage League : the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography reports that she served as its President. She wrote later that most members of the Thirty Club

Timeline

June 1908

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

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 .

Texts

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