Ella Smith

DS 's mother, Ella (Furber) Smith , came from an artistic family; both Ella and her own mother wrote and composed. She did not have much formal education, but she loved to read and to...

DS was first exposed to the suffrage movement when she and her mother took part in the Women's Coronation Procession to the Albert Hall in London.

At the age of fourteen, DS unwillingly moved from Manchester to a suburb close to London with her mother and her new stepfather .