qtd. in
Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928. Routledge, 2001.
276
Women's Freedom League
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | |
| politics | Cicely Hamilton | CH
was an active member of several suffrage organizations, always aligning herself with the non-militant suffragists. She first belonged to the Women's Social and Political Union
, but in 1907 she left to join the... |
| politics | Beatrice Harraden | BH
was identified in an interview of 1897 as a pronounced Suffragist. |
| politics | Jane Hume Clapperton | She also joined the Central arm of this organization in 1890, subscribed to the Women's Emancipation Union
in 1894 and 1896, and subscribed to the Women's Social and Political Union
(WSPU) in 1907. By 1908... |
| politics | Violet Hunt | VH
shared a self-described passion for women's suffrage Hunt, Violet. I Have This to Say. Boni and Liveright, 1926. 51 |
| politics | Edith Craig | EC
and Christopher St John
worked with Charlotte Despard
's new Women's Freedom League
. Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell, 1998. 83 |
| politics | Charlotte Despard | CD
was a leader among those dissenters from the WSPU who founded the Women's Freedom League
for constitutional militants. She was to become president of the new organization. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| politics | Dora Marsden | Following her split with the WSPU
, DM
considered joining the Women's Freedom League
or the Fabian Society
, but instead began to plan for a radical feminist journal that would stimulate discussion of diverse... |
| politics | Eunice Guthrie Murray | EGM
accepted a post with the Women's Freedom League
in Scotland as secretary for scattered members—those living outside large cities. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| politics | Charlotte Despard | CD
stood as a pacifist Labour candidate on 14 December 1918, for the constituency she knew best, in Battersea, in the first British election in which women were entitled to do so, and was... |
| politics | Eunice Guthrie Murray | EGM
(who this year became president in Scotland of the Women's Freedom League
) was arrested for speaking at a meeting outside the Prime Minister's house in Downing Street, London. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| politics | Eunice Guthrie Murray | Her interest in suffrage succeeded to an interest in the temperance movement. She became an active suffrage lecturer, and (with her mother and one of her sisters) joined the Women's Freedom League
(founded by Charlotte Despard |
| politics | Marie Stopes | Stopes was a feminist and suffragist before she became a birth-control activist. Her retention of her own name after marriage was a political act. On the suffrage issue she was a non-militant, belonging to the... |
| politics | Christopher St John | She was arrested in 1909 for setting a pillar box on fire. She worked for the Women's Social and Political Union
, the Writers' Franchise League
(which she helped found), the Catholic Women's Suffrage Society |
| politics | May Sinclair | MS
became a member of the Women Writers' Suffrage League
some time after it was founded in June 1908. Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1973. 96 |
Timeline
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...
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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
February 1909: The Suffrage Atelier was established; like...
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February 1909
The Suffrage Atelier
was established; like members of the Artists' Suffrage League
, SA members produced posters and banners to advertise suffrage activities.
Tickner, Lisa. The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign, 1907-1914. University of Chicago Press, 1988.
20
Tickner, Lisa. The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign, 1907-1914. University of Chicago Press, 1988.
20-1, 25
18 June 1910: A From Prison to Citizenship Procession,...
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18 June 1910
A From Prison to Citizenship Procession, in support of the Conciliation Bill, took place in London, organised by the Women's Social and Political Union
and the Women's Freedom League
.
Tickner, Lisa. The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign, 1907-1914. University of Chicago Press, 1988.
111ff
17 June 1911: The Women's Coronation Procession was attended...
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17 June 1911
The Women's Coronation Procession was attended by 40,000 women from at least twenty-eight women's suffrage organisations, including both the Women's Social and Political Union
and the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
.
Tickner, Lisa. The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign, 1907-1914. University of Chicago Press, 1988.
122-32
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
109
6 March 1912: The Women's Freedom League denounced Women's...
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6 March 1912
The Women's Freedom League
denounced Women's Social and Political Union
militancy in a letter to the Manchester Guardian.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
133
After 4 August 1914: The Women's Freedom League formed the Women's...
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After 4 August 1914
The Women's Freedom League
formed the Women's Suffrage National Aid Corps to assist women and children during wartime.
Garner, Les. Stepping Stones to Women’s Liberty: Feminist Ideas in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1900-1918. Heinemann Educational, 1984.
40
September 1914: Two women's police forces were formed: the...
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September 1914
Two women's police forces were formed: the Women's Police Volunteers
and the Women Patrols
.
Levine, Philippa. “Walking the Streets in a Way No Decent Woman Should: Women Police in World War I”. Journal of Modern History, Vol.
66
, No. 1, Mar. 1994, pp. 34-78. 39
Pugh, Martin. Women and the Women’s Movement in Britain 1914 - 1959. Macmillan Education, 1992.
32
Marwick, Arthur. Women at War, 1914-1918. Croom Helm, 1977.
40, 42
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopædia Britannica. 12th ed., Encyclopædia Britannica Company, 1922, 3 vols.
3: 1044-5
Saturday 19 June 1926: About a hundred thousand participants of...
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Saturday 19 June 1926
About a hundred thousand participants of the Peacemakers' Pilgrimage (all wearing blue armbands showing the white dove of peace and the word Pax) converged on Hyde Park in London.
Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta, 1995.
85
Ducey, Mitchell F., editor. Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Papers, 1915-1978. Microfilming Corporation of America, 1983.
3: 311
Times. Times Publishing Company.
New York Times. New York Times Company.
2 February 1927: Margaret Rhondda, as Chairman of the Equal...
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2 February 1927
Margaret Rhondda
, as Chairman of the Equal Political Rights Campaign Committee
, with many other suffrage veterans, signed a letter to the editor of The Times pressing for women to vote on equal terms...
6 July 1928: Four days after the Representation of the...
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6 July 1928
Four days after the Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act received the royal assent, a celebratory breakfast was held at the Hotel Cecil in London.
“July 6, 1928, Celebrating full women’s suffrage”. Guardian Weekly, 6 July 2007, p. 20.
20
Texts
Despard, Charlotte. Woman’s Franchise and Industry. Women’s Freedom League, 1913.
Ford, Ford Madox. This Monstrous Regiment of Women. Women’s Freedom League, 1913.
Murray, Eunice Guthrie. Woman’s Value in War Time. Women’s Freedom League.