Other members of the committee included MR
's close friend Kathleen Courtney
, H. N. Brailsford
, Elinor Burns
, and Mary Stocks
. The committee's report, Equal Pay and the Family: A Proposal for...
Lytton, Constance. Prisons and Prisoners. Heinemann, 1914.
204, 209
They made their stone-throwing disturbance on a Saturday. The initial charges against CL
were assault, wilful damage, and disorderly...
Reception
Constance Garnett
Yet her translations created an amazing legacy. D. H. Lawrence
, a friend of her husband
's, compared the couple's writing styles in these terms: Edward would rack his brain and suffer while his wife,...
Textual Production
Evelyn Sharp
Another selection of writing by Henry Nevinson
appeared in print after long gestation, edited by Henry Noel Brailsford
with help from ES
: Essays, Poems and Tales, including excerpts from ten of Nevinson's books.
John, Angela V. Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 18691955. Manchester University Press, 2009.
Again she found herself assistant editor, this time of a political journal which was just changing its image as it changed its name from The Labour Leader. By this time she had become well...
Timeline
9 December 1909: The Lord Chief Justice ruled in favour of...
National or international item
9 December 1909
The Lord Chief Justice ruled in favour of forcible feeding of suffragists, arguing that it was the duty of the prison medical officer to prevent prisoners from committing suicide.
Tickner, Lisa. The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign, 1907-1914. University of Chicago Press, 1988.
105
31 January 1910: Militant suffragettes called a truce, anticipating...
National or international item
31 January 1910
Militant suffragettes called a truce, anticipating H. N. Brailsford
's efforts to organise an all-party parliamentary conciliation committee to promote the settlement of the women's suffrage question.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
65-6
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
65-7
April 1910: The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies...
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
70
Lytton, Constance. Prisons and Prisoners. Heinemann, 1914.
311-12
18 November 1910: A Women's Social and Political Union deputation...
Building item
18 November 1910
A Women's Social and Political Union
deputation protesting against Government inaction on the Conciliation Bill was attacked by police at the House of Commons and 119 were arrested; the day became known as Black Friday...
May 1912: The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies...
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
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.
1045
Texts
Rathbone, Eleanor et al. Equal Pay and the Family: A Proposal for the National Endowment of Motherhood. Headley, 1918.