Though unable to attend, she had served on the British Committee for the Congress in April of this year. Of the 180 British women who had planned to attend, only three were able to go:...
Occupation
Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
Of all the women's organisations that EPL
belonged to, she believed most strongly in the WILPF. The suffragists of this organisation, she writes, were unique in that they never swerved from their purpose of winning...
She and her husband
probably managed to get there because they came by ship from America, not from Britain, whose authorities were blocking all sea travel. Only two other British women were permitted to attend...
Publishing
Eunice Guthrie Murray
The Times published a letter from Chrystal Macmillan
and EGM
protesting about a leading article it had published on 29 November on the women's suffrage movement.
Macmillan, Chrystal, and Eunice Guthrie Murray. “Letters to the Editor: Woman Suffrage”. Times, 2 Dec. 1907, p. 12.
12
Timeline
1908: Jessie Crystal Macmillan became the first...
Building item
1908
Jessie Crystal Macmillan
became the first woman (other than monarchs) to address the House of Lords
.
Greenspan, Karen. The Timetables of Women’s History. Simon and Shuster, 1994.
303
1908: Jessie Crystal Macmillan became the first...
Building item
1908
Jessie Crystal Macmillan
became the first woman (other than monarchs) to address the House of Lords
.
Greenspan, Karen. The Timetables of Women’s History. Simon and Shuster, 1994.
303
Early August 1914: In response to the support for Britain's...