League of the Church Militant

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Occupation Maude Royden
After World War One, MR , as a prominent feminist and one of the first women pastors in England, turned almost her whole attention to women's role in the church.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
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Performance of text Maude Royden
MR gave these speeches to the Church League for Women's Suffrage on 11 and 12 May 1910 at Caxton Hall, Westminster, Anerley Town Hall, and Essex Hall.
Royden, Maude. Extracts from May Mission Speeches Delivered in London. Church League for Women’s Suffrage, 1910.
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Performance of text Maude Royden
In The Hour and the Church, published in 1918 after six million women in Britain had received the vote, MR expressed her frustration at the Church's stagnation on the question of female ordination. She...
politics Maude Royden
She gave these speeches for the Church League for Women's Suffrage , which was founded in 1909 by the Rev. Claude Hinscliff to secure for women the Parliamentary Vote as it is or may be...
Publishing Maude Royden
In an essay of 1924 entitled The Ethics of Birth Control, which appeared in the League of the Church Militant Supplement, MR set forth her belief that abstinence in marriage was the best...
Publishing Maude Royden
The next of MR 's religious works was Prayer as a Force, 1922, followed by Beauty in Religion in 1923, in which she writes of the central role that beauty plays in her faith:...
Publishing Maude Royden
In 1928, a collection of Miscellaneous Reprints of Sermons, Addresses, and Lectures, most of which MR had written for the League of the Church Militant between 1916 and 1925, appeared in the USA....
Textual Production Maude Royden
The Church League for Women's Suffrage printed Extracts from May Mission Speeches Delivered in London, by A. Maude Royden .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Royden, Maude. Extracts from May Mission Speeches Delivered in London. Church League for Women’s Suffrage, 1910.
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Textual Production Maude Royden
The League of the Church Militant , of which MR served as president after its establishment in 1918, published a number of her pamphlets on women's entrance into the ministry. These appeared undated, and library...

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1909: The Church League for Women's Suffrage, later...

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1909

The Church League for Women's Suffrage , later the League of the Church Militant , was formed by the Rev. Claude Hinscliff and his wife to lobby for suffrage and promote the deep religious significance...

January 1912: The Church League for Women's Suffrage began...

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January 1912

The Church League for Women's Suffrage began monthly publication in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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8 May 1919: The League of the Church Militant, which...

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8 May 1919

The League of the Church Militant , which developed out of the Church League for Women's Suffrage , challenged the Church on its exclusion of women from the priesthood.
Heeney, Brian. “The Beginnings of Church Feminism: Women and the Councils of the Church of England, 1897-1919”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Indiana University Press, 1986, pp. 260-84.
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Royden, Maude. The Ministry of Women. League of the Church Militant.