At the Working Girls' Club in the summer of 1892, EPL
met the essayist and novelist Edith Ellis
(wife of sexologist Havelock Ellis
). She admired Edith Ellis's unconventionality and freedom, and the two women...
Literary responses
Henrik Ibsen
Edith Ellis
wrote later that this play made her and her friends breathless with excitement. Their debates over it were restive and impetuous and almost savage. They felt it was either the end of the...
politics
Harriet Shaw Weaver
Also around 1912, HSW
took out a subscription to A Weekly Feminist Review: The Freewoman. She soon joined the Freewoman Discussion Circle
. In the discussion circle she heard a talk by Edith Ellis
politics
Dora Marsden
According to Marsden, twelve to fifteen people were expected at this meeting but about a hundred attended. Meetings were open to male and female members and were held every two weeks, while chapters were also...
Timeline
June 1908: The Women Writers' Suffrage League was established...
Whitelaw, Lis. The Life and Rebellious Times of Cicely Hamilton. Women’s Press, 1990.
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Liggins, Emma. “The ’Sordid Story’ of an Unwanted Child: Militancy, Motherhood, and Abortion in Elizabeth Robins’s Votes for Women and Way Stations”. Women’s Writing, Vol.