Atkinson, Diane. Rise Up, Women!. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018.
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Annie Kenney
Standard Name: Kenney, Annie
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Clara Codd | While at Batheaston (near Bristol), CC and Kenney became very close. They were known to show physical affection and to share a bed. They remained friends until Kenney's death in 1953. Codd, Clara. So Rich a Life. Caxton Limited, 1951. 48, 60 |
| Friends, Associates | Constance Lytton | Mary Neal, a leader in the folk-dance revival and joint founder with Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence of the Esperance Club for working girls, invited CL to holiday with herself and some of the girls in autumn... |
| Friends, Associates | Constance Lytton | From two days after her stroke until September 1918 she had the joy of a perfect nurse, Nurse Oram. Lytton, Constance. Letters of Constance Lytton. Editor Balfour, Elizabeth Edith, Countess of, Heinemann, 1925. 236-7 |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Gawthorpe | During her time with the WSPU, MG worked with Christabel Pankhurst (who was twenty-four when Gawthorpe first met her, before she had yet met Isabella Ford), whom, like Ethel Snowden, she knew from... |
| Friends, Associates | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | October 1906, with the prospect of the re-opening of parliament, was full of suffrage activity for EPL and her husband. They had Christabel Pankhurst as a permanent guest at Clements Inn, occupying an office below... |
| Occupation | Clara Codd | In the summer of 1908 she went to Bristol to work for Kenney. Along with other women including Mary Blathwayt, CC campaigned for the WSPU. She went on to become the second-in-command... |
| politics | Constance Lytton | CL wrote later that the scales of ignorance began to be lifted from her eyes about the importance of the vote for women when Annie Kenney told her that as a working-class woman she had... |
| politics | Charlotte Despard | She was recruited for the suffrage movement by Annie Kenney and Tessa Billington Greig, and soon became one of its leaders, along with Millicent Fawcett and Emmeline Pankhurst. Of her appointment with the... |
| politics | Mary Gawthorpe | MG (inspired by the notorious arrest of Annie Kenney and Christabel Pankhurst in Manchester on 13 October 1905) worked with Isabella Ford to launch and run the Leeds Women's Suffrage Society. “Guide to the Papers of Mary E. Gawthorpe, 1881-1990”. The Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
| politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | EPL and her colleagues from the WSPU, including the Pankhurst Christabel Pankhurst s and Kenney, presented their arguments for female enfranchisement to Prime Minister Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman. Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion, 1976. 154-5 |
| politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | At the height of the suffrage movement, EPL spoke in connection with the largest procession to date, at the Albert Hall. So did Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, Annie Kenney, Annie Besant... |
| politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | The Pethick-Lawrences returned from South Africa not only because of the prospect of an election but because two women, Christabel Pankhurst and Annie Kenney, had been thrown into jail in October 1905 for shouting... |
| politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | EPL became involved in the WSPU after Keir Hardie introduced her to the Pankhursts, including Sylvia (Christabel's younger sister), and to Annie Kenney, in February 1906. Kenney, at Hardie's urging, persuaded EPL to become... |
| politics | Christabel Pankhurst | Armed with a home-made banner reading Votes for Women qtd. in Castle, Barbara. Sylvia and Christabel Pankhurst. Penguin, 1987. 48 Winslow, Barbara, and Sheila Rowbotham. Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism. UCL Press, 1996. 9 Castle, Barbara. Sylvia and Christabel Pankhurst. Penguin, 1987. 48-9 |
| politics | Clara Codd | After attending her first WSPU meeting, CC was drawn to Annie Kenney. This influenced her joining the Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women’s Suffrage Movement. the Taylor & Francis Group, 1999. 134 |
Timeline
23 October 1906: During a demonstration at the opening of...
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23 October 1906
During a demonstration at the opening of Parliament, eleven Women's Social and Political Union supporters were for the first time arrested and imprisoned: for two months in Holloway.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
30
Holton, Sandra Stanley. Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Routledge, 1996.
127
Holton, Sandra Stanley. Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Routledge, 1996.
126-7
11 December 1906: Millicent Garrett Fawcett gave a banquet...
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11 December 1906
Millicent Garrett Fawcett gave a banquet at the Savoy Hotel in London to celebrate the release from Holloway Prison of suffragists arrested on 23 October.
Holton, Sandra Stanley. Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Routledge, 1996.
128-9
Gawthorpe, Mary. Up Hill to Holloway. Traversity Press, 1962.
252-3
21 June 1908: The Women's Social and Political Union organised...
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21 June 1908
The Women's Social and Political Union organised a Woman's Sunday which involved (according to the Times estimate) between 250,000 and 500,000 people, mostly women. The WSPU called it Britain's largest-ever political meeting.
Tickner, Lisa. The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign, 1907-1914. University of Chicago Press, 1988.
91-4, 96-7
30 October 1909: Rose Lamartine Yates planted a tree in Annie's...
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30 October 1909
Rose Lamartine Yates planted a tree in Annie's Arboretum (named from Annie Kenney), a commemorative landscape project begun by Emily and Mary Blathwayt at their home, Eagle House at Batheaston, which offered refuge...
28 March 1912: The Conciliation Bill (on suffrage) was defeated...
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28 March 1912
The Conciliation Bill (on suffrage) was defeated in a House of Commons vote, after passing its second reading (the previous year) with a huge majority.
Holton, Sandra Stanley. “Women and the Vote”. Women’s History: Britain, 1850-1945, edited by June Purvis and June Purvis, University College London, 1995, pp. 277-05.
294
Tickner, Lisa. The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign, 1907-1914. University of Chicago Press, 1988.
133
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
135
Frye, Kate Parry. Campaigning for the Vote: Kate Parry Frye’s Suffrage Diary. Editor Crawford, Elizabeth, Francis Boutle Publishers, 2013.
98-100
9 October 1915: Christabel Pankhurst, Emmeline Pankhurst,...
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9 October 1915
Christabel Pankhurst, Emmeline Pankhurst, Flora Drummond, and Annie Kenney edited the first issue of Britannia, a weekly suffragette periodical and organ of the Women's Social and Political Union formerly known as The Suffragette.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
38
Dancyger, Irene. A World of Women: An Illustrated History of Women’s Magazines. Gill and Macmillan, 1978.
112
Garner, Les. Stepping Stones to Women’s Liberty: Feminist Ideas in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1900-1918. Heinemann Educational, 1984.
55
November 1917: The Women's Social and Political Union became...
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November 1917
The Women's Social and Political Union became the Women's Party.
Garner, Les. Stepping Stones to Women’s Liberty: Feminist Ideas in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1900-1918. Heinemann Educational, 1984.
58
1924: Leading suffragist Annie Kenney published...
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1924
Leading suffragist Annie Kenney published Memoirs of a Militant, a book bound in WSPU colours: purple cloth, with white and green stripes.
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