Maude Royden
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Standard Name: Royden, Maude
Birth Name: Agnes Maude Royden
Indexed Name: A. Maude Royden
Married Name: Agnes Maude Shaw
Married Name: Agnes Maude Royden Shaw
Maude Royden
, famous as an early twentieth-century campaigner for women's status in the ministry of the Church of England
, was also a preacher, suffragist, feminist, and anti-war activist. She published at least fifty works in forty years, most of them polemical. Her pamphlets, sermons, and speeches range in topic through religion and Christianity, women's role in the Church
, sexual morality and birth control, female suffrage and women's rights, pacifism, and national and international politics. She established the interdenominational fellowship the Guildhouse
in 1920, preached there, and published the monthly Guildhouse Fellowship. From the 1910s until the late 1940s, she published many letters to the editor of the Times as well as articles there. Her autobiography details her unconventionally shared life with the Rev. Hudson Shaw
and his wife
.
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | Monica Furlong | It is the exercise of power which Murdoch
calls a dangerous delight. Furlong quotes this passage as epigraph along with a remark by Daphne Hampson
: that religion is the most potent ideology the world... |
Literary responses | Dora Marsden | The close friendship of these two was near its end. Letters on The Freewoman from Mary Augusta (Mrs Humphry) Ward
and Agnes Maude Royden
, a prominent member of the NUWSS
, were printed in... |
Literary responses | Mary Gawthorpe | The paper was highly controversial from its inception. Not only anti-suffragists and anti-feminists, but also sexual conservatives like Maude Royden
and Millicent Garrett Fawcett
disliked it. But a suffragist wrote to MG
from the USA... |
Occupation | Eleanor Rathbone | ER
took on this new visitor role at a time when she had been Parliamentary Secretary of the LiverpoolWomen's Suffrage Society
for five years. Settlements were a way for young people of education to... |
Occupation | Kathleen E. Innes | Among those drafted to form the Mandate's Honorary Council in Britain were prominent politicians, clergy, feminists, and writers such as Margaret Ashton
, Margaret Bondfield
, Vera Brittain
, Arthur Henderson
, Laurence Housman
,... |
politics | Susan Miles | Here Ursula Roberts
took up suffragette activism. She sold the pamphlet Votes for Women in the streets of Rugby; her husband wrote letters to newspapers denouncing force-feeding of suffragists in prison, and spoke at... |
politics | George Egerton | GE
never identified herself with a single political group or party, but her second husband
's conservative politics influenced her to some degree. Terence de Vere White
, who edited her letters, describes her as... |
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... |
politics | Dorothy Wellesley | Her fellow signatories included Violet Bonham Carter
, Stafford Cripps
, archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans
, historian H. A. L. Fisher
, scientist-philosopher Julian Huxley
, sculptor Laura Knight
, writers Edith Lyttelton
and J. B. Priestley |
politics | Virginia Woolf | With the declaration of war, however, on 4 August, 1914, VW
's politics and those of the NUWSS parted company. The NUWSS supported the government, and on August the sixth resolved to suspend political activity... |
politics | Pamela Hansford Johnson | During the 1970s PHJ
declared herself in sympathy with many of the aims of the Women's Liberation Movement. Equal pay for equal work, equality of opportunity, in so far as it is possible. Johnson, Pamela Hansford. Important to Me. Macmillan; Scribner, 1974. 57 |
politics | Edith Lyttelton | A letter in the Times signed by EL
, Margaret Bondfield
, and Maude Royden
drew attention to half a million unemployed women workers, many of whom faced starvation or were compelled to accept derisory... |
Textual Features | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | She opens her discussion here with a question: What does the Woman's Movement mean and what is its significance in our modern life? Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. The Meaning of the Woman’s Movement. Woman’s Press. 3 |
Textual Features | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | Extending Mill
's idea that the unemancipated woman was a danger to the community, Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda,. Leisured Women. Hogarth Press, 1928. 5 Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda,. Leisured Women. Hogarth Press, 1928. 6 |
Textual Production | Susan Miles | The Bodleian Library
holds SM
's wartime journal and an unpublished memoir; the Women's Library
holds other papers (including correspondence with Maude Royden
). “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Timeline
15 April 1909
The Common Cause, the official organ of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
, began weekly publication in Manchester.
January 1912
The Church League for Women's Suffrage began monthly publication in London.
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...
December 1914
A group of Christian pacifists including, among others, George Lansbury
, Maude Royden
, William Temple
, Dr Henry Hodgkin
, and Leyton Richards
, held a meeting at Cambridge to found the Fellowship of Reconciliation
(FOR
), an international organisation.
January 1916
The Coming Day, a suffragette periodical from the Free Church League for Women's Suffrage, began monthly publication in London.
Autumn1916
The National Council for Adult Suffrage
was founded. Its early joint secretaries were Maude Royden
and James Middleton
.
29 March 1917
The Life and Liberty Movement
, founded and led by William Temple
, met for the first time at St Martin's Vicarage in London.
December 1917
The Church League for Women's Suffrage ended monthly publication in London.
January 1918
The Church Militant, an Anglican feminist monthly campaigning for the ordination of women, began.
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.
14 May 1920
Time and Tide began publication, offering a feminist approach to literature, politics, and the arts: Naomi Mitchison
called it the first avowedly feminist literary journal with any class, in some ways ahead of its time.
Mitchison, Naomi. You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. Gollancz, 1979.
168
June 1920
The Coming Day, from the Free Church League for Women's Suffrage
, ended its monthly publication in London.
October 1928
November 1935
Boriswood Limited
was in court again (having only a year earlier been fined for publication of Boy), this time for publication of a scientific and philosophical study, The Sexual Impulse by Edward Charles
.
October 1955
The Guildhouse Fellowship ended publication in London.