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Suffrage Stories: Emily Wilding Davison and Kate Frye – Derby Day 1913
The memorial brooch to Emily Davison that Mary Leigh kept all her life, I can’t explain the scribbles! In yesterday’s post I explained that on the evening of 3 June 1913 Emily Davison went to...
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Suffrage Stories: June 2013
In case readers of Woman and Her Sphere haven’t had enough Emily Wilding Davison here is a piece I was commissioned to write for the OUP blog. Or, to be exact, this is the piece I chose to write,...
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Suffrage Stories: Kitty Marion, Emily Wilding Davison And Hurst Park
Emily Wilding Davison died in Epsom Hospital during the afternoon of Sunday 8 June. However, by the previous evening a plan was already afoot to commemorate, if not yet her death, at least her action...
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Suffrage Stories: Parliamentary Radio Interviews Recorded At The Emily...
5 June 2013 100 years since Emily Wilding Davison, the Suffragette died Parliament pays tribute to her Westminster has paid tribute to the Suffragette Emily Wilding Davison 100 years after she was...
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Suffrage Stories: The International Suffrage Shop
Another in my series documenting the places that would once have been so familiar to both suffragettes and suffragists in the area surrounding the new home of the Women’s Library @ LSE. The main sites...
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Collecting Suffrage: 14 June 1913 Emily Wilding Davison’s Funeral Programme:...
Official Programme for Emily WIlding Davison’s Funeral Procession I published this post last October, before the extent of interest in the 100th anniversary celebrations of the event commemorated in...
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Women Writers And Italy: Dorothy Nevile Lees
Plaque at Via Foscola, 32, in Florence Dorothy Nevile Lees was born in Wolverhampton in 1880, the youngest of the seven children of William and Rose Lees. The Lees were a long-established...
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Suffrage Stories: Emily Wilding Davison or Harold Hewitt?
Emily Davison at the Derby 4 June 1913 or Harold Hewitt at Ascot 20 June 1913 For many years, since I acquired this photograph, I had thought it showed Emily Davison lying on the Derby racetrack on 4...
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Books And Ephemera For Sale: Catalogue 180 (Which Includes A Sale Section)
WOMAN AND HER SPHERE Catalogue 180 [Including a SALE SECTION - see items 346-498] Elizabeth Crawford Email E.Crawford@sphere20.freeserve.co.uk Prices are net, postage...
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Suffrage Stories: Bloomsbury Links (Part 2)
In 1907 it was Philippa Strachey, sister of Lytton, who, as secretary of the London Society for Women’s Suffrage, organised the first large-scale London street procession of women prepared to risk...
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Suffrage Stories: Suffrage Sympathisers In Late-19th-Century Alton, Hampshire
While researching ‘women’s suffrage’ in the Hampshire Record Office, Anthony Brunning came across an interesting record of the 19th-century campaign. He has kindly given me permission to publish –...
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Suffrage Stories: Mrs Frood, Topsham’s Suffragette/ist
Some time ago, when researching a talk, ’No Vote No Census’, that I gave in October 2011 conference on the 1911 census organised by the National Archives, I came across the boycotting census form of...
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Suffrage Stories: New Post On No 10 Website & Other Suffrage Guest Blogging
In the past – very suffragette -month the following guest posts commissioned from me have appeared: For the No 10 website: We Wanted to Wake Him Up: Lloyd George and Suffragette Militancey For the OUP...
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Suffrage Stories: Women’s Tax Resistance League Sale, Hampstead, May 1914
The photograph above was taken on Monday 18 May 1914 at the sale in Hampstead of goods belonging to Mrs Louisa Thomson Price and others – all of whom had refused to pay their tax. ‘No Taxation Without...
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Kate Frye’s Suffrage Diary: Live in Wood Green, 25 July 2013
Do come along and experience a taste of suffrage life Campaigning for the Vote: Kate Parry Frye’s Suffrage Diary is published by Francis Boutle Publishers Wrap-around paper covers, 226 pp,...
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Suffrage Stories: Make Millicent Fawcett Visible
Because of copyright issues, I don’t feel able to show you the portrait of Mrs Pankhurst that hangs in the National Gallery. But I wonder how many of you know without looking here which one I mean?...
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The Garretts and Their Circle: Annie Swynnerton’s ‘The Dreamer’
The Dreamer by Annie Swynnerton, 1887. (c) Manchester City Gallery – image courtesy of BBC Paintings and the Public Catalogue Foundation In yesterday’s post I drew attention to Annie Swynnerton’s...
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Kate Frye’s Suffrage Diary: In Bed – Photographed With Radio Headphones At...
Working my way through Kate Frye’s extensive collection of photographs I have just come across this one. It is so unusual to see a photo of a woman lying in bed that I thought I must share it with...
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The Garretts And Their Circle: Annie Swynnerton’s ‘Illusions’
‘Illusions’ by Annie Swynnerton, Collection Manchester City Galleries, courtesy of BBC Your Paintings & the Public Catalogue Foundation This painting was left to the City Art Gallery, Manchester,...
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The Garretts And Their Circle: Annie Swynnerton’s ‘The Town of Siena’
‘The Town of Siena’ by Annie Swynnerton, Manchester City Art Gallery Collection, photo courtesy of MCAG, BBC Your Paintings and the Public Catalogue Foundation This is another of Annie Swynnerton’s...
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