Women Writers' Suffrage League

Connections

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Performance of text Elizabeth Baker
EB 's one-act comedy Edith was performed at a fundraising event for the Women Writers' Suffrage League at the Prince's Theatre .
Weiss, Rudolf. “Versions of Emancipation: The Dramatic World of Elizabeth Baker”. Sprachkunst, Vol.
20
, No. 2, 1989, pp. 305-16.
315
Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press, 1973.
490
Stowell, Sheila. A Stage of Their Own. University of Michigan Press, 1992.
102
Performance of text George Paston
The play was performed alongside Cicely Hamilton 's Pageant of Great Women as part of a fundraising event organised by Inez Bensusan on behalf of the Actresses' Franchise League and the Women Writers' Suffrage League
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 Violet Hunt
VH shared a self-described passion for women's suffrage
Hunt, Violet. I Have This to Say. Boni and Liveright, 1926.
51
with Sinclair, her longtime friend. Sinclair introduced her to the Women's Suffrage League , the Women's Freedom League , and the Women's Social and Political Union
politics Flora Annie Steel
FAS , as President of the Women Writers' Suffrage League , spoke at the Criterion Restaurant in London debate about the suffrage, against Mary Augusta Ward , who was speaking for the Anti-Suffrage Society .
Powell, Violet. Flora Annie Steel: Novelist of India. Heinemann, 1981.
125
politics Marie Belloc Lowndes
MBL was an active member of the Women Writers' Suffrage League : the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography reports that she served as its President. She wrote later that most members of the Thirty Club
politics Flora Annie Steel
FAS was a supporter of the women's suffrage movement and a member of the Women Writers' Suffrage League . Women's lack of the vote, she felt, was illogical, not to say grotesque—exactly the kind...
politics May Sinclair
MS marched, along with her friends Alice Meynell , Alice Zimmern , and Marie Belloc Lowndes , in the From Prison to Citizenship procession as a member of the Women Writers' Suffrage League .
Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press, 2000.
111
politics May Sinclair
MS was one of twelve Vice-Presidents of the Women Writers' Suffrage League when Flora Annie Steel took over the presidency from Elizabeth Robins .
Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1973.
96
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
That year she also joined the Women's Freedom League , collected money in the streets...
politics Elizabeth Robins
ER became president of the Women Writers' Suffrage League , founded this year by Cicely Hamilton and Bessie Hatton .
John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge, 1995.
153
politics Elizabeth Robins
Aligning herself with the non-militant Pethick-LawrencesFrederick William Pethick-Lawrence , ER resigned from the Women's Social and Political Union and the Women Writers' Suffrage League .
John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge, 1995.
167-71
politics George Paston
GP belonged to the Women Writers' Suffrage League and the London Women's Suffrage Society .
Kaplan, Joel H., and Sheila Stowell. Theatre and Fashion: Oscar Wilde to the Suffragettes. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
163
Much of her writing reflects a feminist viewpoint.
politics Elizabeth Baker
EB 's plays reflect her commitment to socialist and feminist ideas. Her involvement in the suffrage movement included contributing a one-act play, Edith, to a Women Writers' Suffrage League fundraiser and subscribing to the...
politics Sarah Grand
In an interview in 1896, SG made clear her belief in the need for female suffrage: We shall do no good until we get the Franchise, for however well-intentioned men may be, they cannot understand...

Timeline

June 1908: The Women Writers' Suffrage League was established...

National or international item

June 1908

The Women Writers' Suffrage League was established by Cicely Hamilton and Bessie Hatton .
Norquay, Glenda. Voices and Votes: A Literary Anthology of the Women’s Suffrage Campaign. Manchester University Press, 1995.
xv
Stowell, Sheila. A Stage of Their Own. University of Michigan Press, 1992.
2, 40, 102, 126n1
Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell, 1998.
89
Whitelaw, Lis. The Life and Rebellious Times of Cicely Hamilton. Women’s Press, 1990.
68-74
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.
25
, No. 3, Aug. 2018, pp. 347-61.
349

17 June 1911: The Women's Coronation Procession was attended...

National or international item

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.
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Texts

Sinclair, May. Feminism. Women Writers’ Suffrage League, 1912.