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Books and Ephemera For Sale: Catalogue 197

  Woman and her Sphere Catalogue 197       Item #23A   Elizabeth Crawford 5 Owen’s Row London EC1V 4NP elizabeth.crawford2017@outlook.com   Index to Catalogue Suffrage Non-fiction: Items 1-8 Suffrage...

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Suffrage Stories: Women’s History Review – Women’s Suffrage Centennial...

If you are one of my readers interested in the history of the women’s suffrage movement, you will be pleased to know that, in this centennial year, Women’s History Review is allowing free access to a...

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The Garretts And Their Circle: Fanny Wilkinson And Middlethorpe Hall

  Middlethorpe Hall, York As part of Bloom! – a festival celebrating horticulture and flowers in York – I was invited give a talk yesterday about Fanny Wilkinson, Britain’s first professional woman...

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Suffrage Stories: Ella And Geraldine Stevenson, Suffragette Sisters

Place is important to me and sometimes my attention is caught by an incident occurring somewhere I’ve known well. And so it was that four years ago I noticed that a suffragette ‘outrage’ had taken...

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Suffrage Stories: The Hodgson Sisters And Their Suffrage Souvenirs

My new catalogue – No 198 – will contain a large collection of suffrage ephemera kept all their lives by three sisters, Edith Lizzie (1881-1958), Florence Emily (1882-1967), and Grace Margaret...

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Books and Ephemera For Sale: Catalogue 198

Woman and her Sphere Catalogue 198     WFL Dolly Bag Item #83   Elizabeth Crawford 5 Owen’s Row London EC1V 4NP elizabeth.crawford2017@outlook.com   Index to Catalogue Suffrage Non-fiction: Items 1-6...

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Suffrage Stories: Save Mrs Pankhurst’s Statue

A planning application has been made to Westminster Council to dismantle this statue of Mrs Pankhurst – which stands as close as possible to the Houses of Parliament. The plan is to banish this statue...

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Suffrage Stories: The Prison Diary of Annie Cobden-Sanderson

One of the many new books I have enjoyed in this suffrage centenary year is The Prison Diary of Annie Cobden-Sanderson, edited by Dr Marianne Tidcombe. This postcard is for sale – item 153 in my...

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Suffrage Stories: Mrs Pankhurst’s Statue – UPDATE 22 October 2018

This statue of Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst, erected by her admiring and loving followers, will remain THE memorial to her at Westminster. I reported on 15 September the very welcome news that, as a result...

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Suffrage Stories: ‘Woman And Her Sphere’ At Buckingham Palace

  Yesterday was surreal – as I found myself at Buckingham Palace to receive an OBE for ‘Services to Education – in particular for promoting knowledge of the women’s suffrage movement’. This was an...

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Kate Frye’s Diary: Armistice Day 1918

Kate Frye had worked as an organiser for the New Constitutional Society for Women’s Suffrage from 1911 until the summer of 1915. In January 1915 she had married her long-time fiancé, John Collins, an...

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Suffrage Stories: The First Women General Election Candidates, 1918: Mary...

Today, 21 November 2018, marks the 100th anniversary of the passing of the Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act, by which women were for the first time able to stand for election as members of...

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Suffrage Stories: The First Women General Election Candidates, 1918: Margery...

21 November 2018 marked the 100th anniversary of the passing of the Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act, by which women were for the first time able to stand for election as members of Parliament....

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Suffrage Stories: The First Women General Election Candidates, 1918: Winifred...

21 November 2018 marked the 100th anniversary of the passing of the Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act, by which women were for the first time able to stand for election as members of Parliament....

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Suffrage Stories: The First Women General Election Candidates, 1918: Violet...

21 November 2018 marked the 100th anniversary of the passing of the Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act, by which women were for the first time able to stand for election as members of Parliament....

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Suffrage Stories: The First Women General Election Candidates, 1918:...

21 November 2018 marked the 100th anniversary of the passing of the Parliament(Qualification of Women) Act, by which women were for the first time able to stand for election as members of Parliament....

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Suffrage Stories: The First Women General Election Candidates, 1918: Norah...

21 November 2018 marked the 100th anniversary of the passing of the Parliament(Qualification of Women) Act, by which women were for the first time able to stand for election as members of Parliament....

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Suffrage Stories: The First Women General Election Candidates, 1918: Alison...

21 November 2018 marked the 100th anniversary of the passing of the Parliament(Qualification of Women) Act, by which women were for the first time able to stand for election as members of Parliament....

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Suffrage Stories: The First Women General Election Candidates, 1918: Emmeline...

21 November 2018 marked the 100th anniversary of the passing of the Parliament(Qualification of Women) Act, by which women were for the first time able to stand for election as members of Parliament....

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Suffrage Stories: The First Women General Election Candidates, 1918: Janet...

21 November 2018 marked the 100th anniversary of the passing of the Parliament(Qualification of Women) Act, by which women were for the first time able to stand for election as members of Parliament....

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