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Mary Gawthorpe
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Standard Name: Gawthorpe, Mary
Birth Name: Mary Eleanor Gawthorpe
Nickname: Nellie
MG
, from a working-class family with a tradition of self-education, became a remarkable speaker and writer on behalf of women's suffrage. She co-edited The Freewoman, working somewhat uneasily with Dora Marsden
. Her memoirs, published in her old age after her emigration from England to the USA, give a vivid account of her early struggles.
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Residence | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | The Pethick-Lawrences divided their time between London and the country. In town they lived in Clement's Inn (on more than one floor, with the most private part at the top), where the rich simplicity in... |
| 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Emmeline Pankhurst | She later deeply impressed Mary Gawthorpe
by being the only woman she knew to declare that if given the chance she would not change one iota of her life experience, including her marriage and her... |
| Friends, Associates | Emmeline Pankhurst | EP
was by now a legendary figure for suffragists of her own generation and the next. Mary Gawthorpe
recorded her first sight of her as neat, dainty, the very picture of discontent and mutinous intention... |
| Textual Production | Sylvia Pankhurst | Her chief motive for writing it was financial: as a new mother and family breadwinner she needed such a project. Longman
had approached her in 1928 about writing a history of the suffrage movement; they... |
| Literary responses | Sylvia Pankhurst | The book was well received, and enhanced SP
's reputation with the general public. George Bernard Shaw
praised it in a speech on the BBC
in which he compared SP
to Joan of Arc
... |
| Reception | Dora Marsden | A landmark in DM
's career was her founding and editing, from 23 November 1911, of The Freewoman: A Weekly Feminist Review, with Mary Gawthorpe
as co-editor. Garner, Les. A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960. Avebury. 59 |
| Textual Production | Dora Marsden | Marsden's first major collaborator was Mary Gawthorpe
. The two began their friendship in about 1906 and had since frequently shared personal and professional concerns, including possible courses of action in the feminist movement. Garner, Les. A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960. Avebury. 48 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Dora Marsden | The Freewoman's other writing contributors included Rebecca West
, radical feminists Ada Neild Chew
and Theresa Billington-Greig
, Stella Browne
(later founder of the Abortion Law Reform Association
), anarchists Rose Witcop
and Guy Aldred |
| politics | Dora Marsden | DM
, Mary Gawthorpe
, and Rona Robinson
were arrested in their academic gowns at Manchester University
after protesting against the recent start of force-feeding at Birmingham's Winson Green Prison
. Garner, Les. A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960. Avebury. 36 Barash, Carol. “Dora Marsden’s Feminism, the <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘j’>Freewoman</span>, and the Gender Politics of Early Modernism”. Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. 49 , No. 1, pp. 31-56. 39 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Dora Marsden | At about this time a close friendship began between two influential early twentieth-century feminists: DM
and Mary Gawthorpe
. Garner, Les. A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960. Avebury. 48 |
| Friends, Associates | Dora Marsden | Introduced to each other by Mary Gawthorpe
, DM
and Rebecca West
began a friendship based on their shared interest in feminist issues. Garner, Les. A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960. Avebury. 93 Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton. 16-17 |
| Reception | Dora Marsden | |
| politics | Dora Marsden | Christabel
and Emmeline Pankhurst
, Mary Gawthorpe
, and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
also spoke at this event. |
| Occupation | Dora Marsden |
Timeline
3 January 1880: The popular Girl's Own Paper began as a weekly...
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3 January 1880
The popular Girl's Own Paper began as a weekly published by the Religious Tract Society
; it later became a monthly.
18 January 1894: The monthly magazine Home Notes (another...
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18 January 1894
The monthly magazineHome Notes (another of those which Mary Gawthorpe
called specialized offerings for women, edited by men) began publication.
23 March 1895: A weekly magazine entitled Home Chat began...
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23 March 1895
A weekly magazine entitled Home Chat began publication, one of those called by Mary Gawthorpespecialized offerings for women, edited by men. . . . all small, dainty in their appeal.
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
.
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.
1907: Alfred Richard Orage and Holbrook Jackson...
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1907
Alfred Richard Orage
and Holbrook Jackson
acquired the weekly reviewNew Age (founded in 1894).
Kindley, Evan. “Ismism”. London Review of Books, Vol.
36
, No. 2, pp. 33-5. 34
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Orage
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
23 November 1911: Dora Marsden and Mary Gawthorpe edited the...
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23 November 1911
Dora Marsden
and Mary Gawthorpe
edited the first issue of The Freewoman: A Weekly Feminist Review, a paper about sexual reform.
Texts
Marsden, Dora, and Mary Gawthorpe, editors. The Freewoman. Printed by Hazell, Watson, and Viney.
Gawthorpe, Mary. Up Hill to Holloway. Traversity Press, 1962.
Gawthorpe, Mary. Votes for Men. Women’s Press, 1907.