Elizabeth Clarke Wolstenholme Elmy

Her interest in social reform brought her into friendship with Charles Bray of Coventry, and her involvement with the feminist movement led to personal friendships with many of its leaders. She became, for instance, one...

HT moved in political and social circles that included Elizabeth Garrett Anderson , Millicent Garrett Fawcett , Louisa Garrett Anderson , Emily Davies , Elizabeth Wolstenholme , Frances Mary Buss , Dorothea Beale , and Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon .

AK 's wide-ranging interests brought her into contact with an array of people known to a greater or lesser extent in the intellectual life of the day. Through the women's movement she met Barbara Bodichon

Partly through her membership of the Kensington Society (a social and political discussion group of about fifty women inaugurated in 1865), JB broadened her acquaintance with significant members of the feminist movement, including Frances Power Cobbe

She consulted Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy at some length by letter during the writing of this work. She then spent a solitary Christmas 1910 putting the finishing touches to it, and received on Boxing Day the...

As a young married woman, AK became active in the women's movement with the likes of Frances Power Cobbe , Barbara Bodichon , and Elizabeth Wolstenholme ; this soon led to her first distinctly political publication.

JB threw herself into social work of all kinds, aiming to assist those less fortunate than herself. She began by visiting and examining oakum sheds, in which women, both prison inmates and creatures driven...

Despite her ill health, JB began in the spring of 1869 to direct her energies towards a new cause, the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts. Perhaps following the advice of Princess Victoria , who...

An early action of the LNA was to publish their petition, or The Ladies' Appeal and Protest, in the Daily News in December 1869, following Harriet Martineau 's letters written as An Englishwoman which...

Its members included Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy , Jane Cobden , William Lloyd Garrison , Josephine Butler , and Mrs P. A. (Clementia) Taylor (convenor of the first Women's Suffrage Committee formed in London), among others.

In 1874 LB supported a suffrage bill brought in by a Conservative MP, which would have given the vote to unmarried women and widows only (on the basis that a married woman would merely duplicate...

It was intended to provide information about progress on an international scale about the campaign for women's education. Biographer Jane Jordan notes that Elizabeth Wolstenholme and Jessie Boucherett backed Josephine with articles for the first...

Among the other women who signed were Harriet Martineau , Elizabeth Wolstenholme , and Florence Nightingale . The petition was compiled by the Ladies' National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts ;...

Josephine Butler collaborated with Emily Venturi and Elizabeth Wolstenholme to publish in final form the pamphlet Legislative Restrictions on the Industry of Women, Considered from the Women's Point of View.