Garner, Les. A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960. Avebury, 1990.
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Women's Social and Political Union
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Characters | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | As a young man Arnold falls in love with the suffragist Beryl, a member of the WSPU
. Olga is jealously hostile and dismissive of his love, but when the Great War comes neither woman... |
| Cultural formation | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | GHS
involved herself with the Liberal Party
in about 1906, and the Women's Social and Political Union
soon afterwards. She worked with the Pankhursts
and militant suffragettes. During World War One, prejudice against her husband's... |
| Cultural formation | Beatrice Harraden | BH
was born into the English commercial middle class. Although her novels do not engage in much detail with feminist issues, she was a keen suffragist, involved with the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)
. |
| Cultural formation | Christabel Pankhurst | There is some suggestion that CP
may have had lesbian relationships. She excited devotion among her female followers, and at least one—novelist Elizabeth Robins
—admitted to falling in love with her. CP
also spent much... |
| Education | Christabel Pankhurst | In 1904, with urging from her recently-made friend Esther Roper
, CP
considered studying law at Lincoln's Inn, as her father had done before her. Her application was dismissed on the grounds that she would... |
| Education | Dora Marsden | Though some of DM
's activities and affiliations are unclear, studying and living in Manchester was a highly formative experience for her. By then the city had established strong ties with the labour and suffrage... |
| Employer | Dora Marsden | |
| Employer | Constance Lytton | The Women's Social and Political Union
put CL
on its payroll as a paid organizer at two pounds a week plus expenses, making the appointment retrospective to the beginning of the year. Lytton, Constance. Prisons and Prisoners. Heinemann, 1914. 311 Lytton, Constance. Letters of Constance Lytton. Editor Balfour, Elizabeth Edith, Countess of, Heinemann, 1925. 209 |
| Employer | Mary Gawthorpe | MG
became a paid organizer for the national Women's Social and Political Union
. She worked for the WSPU until autumn 1911 and became one of its leading organizers and speakers. Cowman, Krista. “A Footnote in History? Mary Gawthorpe, Sylvia Pankhurst, The Suffragette Movement and the Writing of Suffragette History”. Womens History Review, Vol. 14 , No. 3/4, pp. 447-66. 450 “Guide to the Papers of Mary E. Gawthorpe, 1881-1990”. The Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
| Employer | Mary Gawthorpe | MG
resigned her position with the Women's Social and Political Union
(she had been trying to continue working while bedridden). Cowman, Krista. “A Footnote in History? Mary Gawthorpe, Sylvia Pankhurst, The Suffragette Movement and the Writing of Suffragette History”. Womens History Review, Vol. 14 , No. 3/4, pp. 447-66. 450 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | A. E. Housman | His sister Clemence Annie Housman
(1861-1955) became a novelist and a wood-engraver who trained at the City and Guilds College
. She joined the Women's Social and Political Union
and threw herself into the suffrage... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Christabel Pankhurst | In January 1914, CP
called Sylvia
to Paris to demand that Sylvia's East London Federation
should break its ties to the WSPU
. Although their mother's suffragist impulse had originally grown in close relation to... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Wheeler | Lady Constance Lytton
(1869 - 1923), a suffragist active in the Women's Social and Political Union
, was AW
's great-grand-daughter. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | EPL
's younger sisters Dorothy
and Marie
followed her elder's lead and became active members of the Women's Social and Political Union
. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Christabel Pankhurst | CP
publicly announced that Sylvia Pankhurst
's East London Federation
would no longer be attached to the WSPU
. Marcus, Jane, editor. “Introduction / Appendix”. Suffrage and the Pankhursts, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987, pp. 1 - 17, 306. 315 |
Timeline
2 November 1903: The London Daily Mirror began publication...
Building item
2 November 1903
The LondonDaily Mirror began publication with a woman editor, Mary Howarth
, as a penny paper for gentlewomen by gentlewomen.
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
367
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
Stott, Mary. “Women in Newspapers”. On Gender and Writing, edited by Michelene Wandor, Pandora Press, 1983, pp. 126-32.
126-7
December 1903: Australian feminist and suffragist Vida Goldstein...
National or international item
December 1903
Australian feminist and suffragist Vida Goldstein
became the first woman in the British Empire to run for a national parliament, standing for the Senate while two other Australian women stood for the House of Representatives...
19 May 1906: Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, newly-elected...
National or international item
19 May 1906
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
, newly-elected Prime Minister, received a deputation of suffragists.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
25n85
Holton, Sandra Stanley. Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Routledge, 1996.
121
: The Women's Social and Political Union moved...
National or international item
Summer 1906
The Women's Social and Political Union
moved its headquarters to London; this relocation was emblematic of its shift away from its Independent Labour Party
and working-class origins.
Holton, Sandra Stanley. “Women and the Vote”. Women’s History: Britain, 1850-1945, edited by June Purvis and June Purvis, University College London, 1995, pp. 277-05.
291
Garner, Les. Stepping Stones to Women’s Liberty: Feminist Ideas in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1900-1918. Heinemann Educational, 1984.
45
23 October 1906: During a demonstration at the opening of...
National or international item
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
.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
30
Holton, Sandra Stanley. Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Routledge, 1996.
127
Holton, Sandra Stanley. Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Routledge, 1996.
126-7
October 1907: Votes for Women, the official organ of the...
Building item
October 1907
Votes for Women, the official organ of the Women's Social and Political Union
, began publication in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
25
King, Elspeth. “The Scottish Women’s Suffrage Movement”. Out of Bounds: Women in Scottish Society 1800-1945, edited by Esther Breitenbach and Eleanor Gordon, Edinburgh University Press, 1992, pp. 121-50.
139
October 1907: Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst and Emmeline...
National or international item
October 1907
Emmeline
and Christabel Pankhurst
and Emmeline
and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence
, wanting to maintain control over the Women's Social and Political Union
agenda, removed by fiat dissident members of the executive and cancelled the forthcoming annual...
November 1907: Charlotte Despard and Teresa Billington Greig...
National or international item
November 1907
Charlotte Despard
and Teresa Billington Greig
left the Women's Social and Political Union
to form the Women's Freedom League
.
Holton, Sandra Stanley. “Women and the Vote”. Women’s History: Britain, 1850-1945, edited by June Purvis and June Purvis, University College London, 1995, pp. 277-05.
291
Garner, Les. Stepping Stones to Women’s Liberty: Feminist Ideas in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1900-1918. Heinemann Educational, 1984.
29
March 1908: Mary Louisa Gordon, who had qualified as...
Building item
March 1908
Mary Louisa Gordon
, who had qualified as both a physician and a midwife and had practised medicine in London since 1900, was appointed the first female prison inspector in Britain.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
21 June 1908: The Women's Social and Political Union organised...
National or international item
21 June 1908
The Women's Social and Political Union
organised a Woman's Sunday which involved (according to the Times estimate) between 250,000 and 500,000 people, mostly women. The WSPU called it Britain's largest-ever political meeting.
Tickner, Lisa. The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign, 1907-1914. University of Chicago Press, 1988.
91-4, 96-7
30 June 1908: The first act of damage was committed by...
National or international item
30 June 1908
The first act of damage was committed by Women's Social and Political Union
supporters Edith New
and Mary Leigh
, when they stoned the windows of 10 Downing Street.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
50
11 November 1908: Hanna Sheehy Skeffington and Margaret Cousins...
National or international item
11 November 1908
Hanna Sheehy Skeffington
and Margaret Cousins
formed the Irish Women's Franchise League
, a militant, non-partisan organisation which wanted women's suffrage included in the Home Rule Bill.
Luddy, Maria, editor. Women in Ireland, 1800-1918: A Documentary History. Cork University Press, 1995.
273
Owens, Rosemary Cullen. Smashing Times: A History of the Irish Women’s Suffrage Movement 1889-1922. Attic, 1984.
42
Moody, Theodore William et al., editors. A New History of Ireland. Clarendon, 1976–2024, 10 vols.
8: 381
Luddy, Maria, editor. Women in Ireland, 1800-1918: A Documentary History. Cork University Press, 1995.
273
Ward, Margaret. “’Suffrage First--Above All Else!’ An Account of the Irish Suffrage Movement”. Feminist Review, Vol.
10
, 1982, pp. 21-36. 24
May 1909: The Women's Social and Political Union held...
Building item
May 1909
The Women's Social and Political Union
held a Votes for Women Exhibition at Prince's Skating Rink, Knightsbridge, London, which netted £5,607 for the suffrage cause.
Lytton, Constance. Letters of Constance Lytton. Editor Balfour, Elizabeth Edith, Countess of, Heinemann, 1925.
164
18 September 1909: Women's Social and Political Union members...
National or international item
18 September 1909
Women's Social and Political Union
members Mary Leigh
and Charlotte Marsh
, imprisoned in Winson Green
, Birmingham, began fasting; they were ordered by Home Secretary Herbert Gladstone
to be forcibly fed.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
54
Tickner, Lisa. The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign, 1907-1914. University of Chicago Press, 1988.
104
Seymour, David, and Emily Seymour, editors. A Century of News. Contender Books, 2003.
Lytton, Constance. Prisons and Prisoners. Heinemann, 1914.
201-2
About 9 October 1909: In response to Women's Social and Political...
National or international item
About 9 October 1909
In response to Women's Social and Political Union
militancy, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
passed a resolution stating that it would employ only constitutional
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
55
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
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