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 | 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... |
| 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... |
| 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 LeedsWomen'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 PankhurstChristabel 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...
National or international item
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...
National or international item
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...
National or international item
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...
Building item
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...
Women writers item
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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