Annie Kenney

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...

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...

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.

It provides a detailed history of her life so far. Focusing on her work with Theosophy, she also gives details about her upbringing in North Devon and her aversion to the fear-inducing side of Christianity...

After attending her first WSPU meeting, CC was drawn to Annie Kenney . This influenced her joining the WSPU and later the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies .

Around 1903 when CC joined the Theosophists, she also became a member of the Social Democratic Federation . On her return from Ireland to Bath, where her family had moved, she became involved...

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...