Gawthorpe, Mary. Up Hill to Holloway. Traversity Press, 1962.
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Helena Swanwick
Standard Name: Swanwick, Helena
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Agnes Hamilton | MAH
's father, Robert Adamson
, educated at Edinburgh University
, became Professor of Logic and Metaphysics successively at Owens College
(later merged in Manchester University), and the Universities of Aberdeen
and then Glasgow
... |
| Friends, Associates | Isabella Ormston Ford | Besides the Ford sisters, other members of the UDC included founding member James Ramsay MacDonald
, executive committee member Helena Swanwick
, and Vernon Lee
, who was a good friend of IOF
's sister... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Gawthorpe | MG
's correspondents included Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
, Alice Paul
, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
, Elizabeth Robins
, Helena Swanwick
, Henry Nevinson
, Havelock Ellis
, John Galsworthy
, Victor Gollancz
, A. R. Orage |
| Literary responses | Mary Gawthorpe | She took it in good part when Teresa Billington
told her when one of her most headlong and disorganized speeches (given after taking a doctor's prescription for exhaustion) was pretty bad, |
| Occupation | Lady Margaret Sackville | Members of the Union of Democratic Control
also included Margaret Llewelyn Davies
and Bertrand Russell
. Helena M. Swanwick
was a member of the Executive Committee, and LMS
was one of twelve women besides her... |
| Occupation | Maude Royden | MR
succeeded Helena Swanwick
in the position of chairman of the Women's International League (WIL)
. Fletcher, Sheila. Maude Royden: A Life. Basil Blackwell, 1989. 219 |
| Occupation | Maude Royden | MR
served on the executive committee of the NUWSS along with suffragists Dorothea Rackham
, Chrystal Macmillan
, Margaret Ashton
, Catherine Marshall
, Ida O'Malley
, Kathleen Courtney
, and Isabella Ford
. By... |
| Occupation | Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda | Women contributors ranged widely: Rebecca West
, Stella Benson
, Cicely Hamilton
, Members of Parliament Lady Nancy Astor
and Ellen Wilkinson
, Virginia Woolf
, Naomi Mitchison
, E. M. Delafield
, Rose Macaulay |
| Occupation | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | Helena Swanwick
was the League's chair. Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion, 1976. 316 |
| Occupation | Kathleen E. Innes | Prominent women in the UDC such as Helena Swanwick
, dissatisfied with the UDC's lack of attention to women's issues, also belonged to the Women's International League. Kathleen was clearly of the same mind, for... |
| politics | Lady Margaret Sackville | Some detail about the Union of Democratic Control
is in order here because her membership of its General Council is at odds with the accepted image of LMS
, and suggests that a side of... |
| politics | Maude Royden | Through her anti-war activities, MR
became involved with the Women's International League (WIL)
, a pacifist organisation founded by British women who had attended the Women's International Congress
in Amsterdam in 1915. Back in England... |
| politics | Isabella Ormston Ford | Several members of the Women's International League were committed suffragists, including Helena Swanwick
, Maude Royden
, Margaret Ashton
, Kate Courtney
, and Charlotte Despard
. Others were IOF
's old friends from the... |
Timeline
1909: Artist Walter Sickert's series of paintings...
Building item
1909
Artist Walter Sickert
's series of paintings entitled Camden Town Murder, depicting the murder of a prostitute, revolutionized the British art world.
Ford, Boris, editor. The Cambridge Guide to the Arts in Britain. Vol. 9 vols, Cambridge University Press, 1988–2024.
8: 157, 158
Windsor, Alan, editor. Handbook of Modern British Painting 1900-1980. Scolar Press, 1992.
250, 251
15 April 1909: The Common Cause, the official organ of the...
Building item
15 April 1909
The Common Cause, the official organ of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
, began weekly publication in Manchester.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
27
Mappen, Ellen. Helping Women at Work: The Women’s Industrial Council, 1889-1914. Hutchinson in association with the Explorations in Feminism Collective, 1985.
26
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August 1914: The Union of Democratic Control was established...
National or international item
August 1914
The Union of Democratic Control
was established by J. Ramsay MacDonald
, Norman Angell
, Charles Trevelyan
, and E. D. Morel
.
Ceadel, Martin. Pacifism in Britain, 1914-1945 : The Defining of a Faith. Clarendon, 1980, http://U of A HSS.
Appendix I
Hinton, James. Protests and Visions: Peace Politics in Twentieth-Century Britain. Hutchinson Radius, 1989, http://U of A HSS.
44
Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta, 1995.
65-6
The Working Class Movement Library
holds most of...
Early August 1914: In response to the support for Britain's...
National or international item
Early August 1914
In response to the support for Britain's war effort pledged by Millicent Garrett Fawcett
and other National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
Executive Committee members, several leading members of the Union resigned to form the...
30 January 1920: The Common Cause, the official organ of the...
Building item
30 January 1920
The Common Cause, the official organ of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
, ended publication in London under this name, even as subtitle. The next number appeared as The Woman's Leader.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
27
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1935: Helena Swanwick (suffragist, pacifist, sister...
Women writers item
1935
Helena Swanwick
(suffragist, pacifist, sister of artist Walter Sickert
) published her memoir I Have Been Young.
Doughan, David. email to Women’s History Network. 11 Dec. 2009.
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