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The Garretts And Their Circle: Annie Swynnerton’s ‘Crossing The Stream’
‘Crossing the Stream’ by Annie Swynnerton. Manchester City Art Gallery Coleciton. Photo courtesy of MCAG and BBC Your Paintings with the Public Catalogue Foundation Another of Annie Swynnerton’s...
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Suffrage Stories: ‘Laura Grey’: Suffragettes, Sex-Poison And Suicide
Lavendar Guthrie’s Hunger Strike Medal and Votes for Women brooch, photo courtesy of Christie’s. On the morning of Monday 8 June 1914 – a year to the day after the death of Emily Wilding Davison – a...
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WALKS: The Women’s Library @ LSE Now Open
Today, 1 August 2013, is a red-letter day for women’s history researchers – for once again they have access to the magnificent Women’s Library archive and museum collections – now open at The Women’s...
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Suffrage Stories: Marjorie Hamilton: An Unknown Suffrage Artist
I have long admired this image, created to advertise the 1911 ‘Women’s Coronation Procession’. This particular item was carefully laid by Kate Frye between the pages of her diary. She was proud to be...
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Kate Frye’s Suffrage Diary: The Suffrage Shop in Hythe High Street
In mid-1912 this shop at 83 High Street, Hythe- now occupied by ‘Ideas’ - opened as the local Suffrage Shop and Club, run by Miss Georgina Cheffins and Miss Eva Lewis, who, although members of the...
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WALKS: What Would Bring Campaigning Women to Buckingham Street, Strand?
Ever since the decision was made for the Women’s Library to move to LSE (now open as the Women’s Library @ LSE) I have been writing posts that draw attention to the many locations associated with the...
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WALKS: Mrs Ayres Purdie, Kingsway And (Alas) Covent Garden Tube Station
Ever since the decision was made for the Women’s Library to move to LSE (now open as the Women’s Library @ LSE) I have been writing posts that draw attention to the many locations associated with the...
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Books And Ephemera For Sale: Catalogue 181
Woman and her Sphere Catalogue 181 Elizabeth Crawford e.crawford@sphere20.freeserve.co.uk Sections: Non-fiction: 1-177 Biography: 178-229 Ephemera: 230-342 Kate Parry Frye Archive: General Ephemera:...
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Kate Frye’s Diary: A Visit To Ditchling And Tea With Eric Gill, 1910
In January 1910 Kate Frye is paying a short visit to Ditchling in Sussex, staying with her dear cousin, Abbie, and her husband, Basil Hargrave, at their home, Chichester House, 11 High Street,...
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A Poster Speaks: The Mystery of the Disappearing Doctor
This is the framed poster that for many years has hung above my desk. I first saw it – or, more probably, but not certainly, another copy of it – hanging on the stairs up to the attic of a marvellous...
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Kate Frye’s Suffrage Diary: Following In Kate’s Footsteps: Norfolk
It was in this house, 65 Commercial Road, East Dereham, that on Thursday 16 March 1911 Kate Frye embarked on her career as an organizer for the New Constitutional Society for Women’s Suffrage 65...
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Suffrage Stories: The 1911 Census: More Birmingham Boycotters
Suffragette evaders of the 1911 census can be very difficult to uncover – that, of course, was their intention. It is well nigh impossible to identify individual evaders who, with their companions,...
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Suffrage Stories: The 1911 Census: The Gillingham Suffragettes’ Boycott
Jezreel’s Tower in 1906. (Courtesy of Medway Lines.com) It was in a hall associated with the crazy folly that was Jezreel’s Tower that a band of Gillingham suffragettes amused themselves on the night...
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WALKS/Suffrage Stories: The London Opera House, Kingsway
Ever since the decision was made for the Women’s Library to move to LSE (now open as the Women’s Library @ LSE) I have been writing posts that draw attention to the many locations associated with the...
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Suffrage Stories: The 1911 Census: The Bradford Boycotters
Mary Phillips ‘NO VOTE NO CENSUS Posterity will know how to judge the Government if it persists in bringing about the falsification of national statistics instead of acting on its own principles and...
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Books and Ephemera For Sale: Catalogue 182
Woman and her Sphere Catalogue 182 Elizabeth Crawford 5 Owen’s Row London EC1V 4NP e.crawford@sphere20.freeserve.co.uk Sections: Non-fiction Biography Ephemera Fiction & Poetry Suffrage Non-fiction...
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Suffrage Stories: The 1911 Census: The Leicester Suffragettes’ Mass Evasion
As I have explained in previous posts, the militant suffrage societies, the Women’s Freedom League and the Women’s Social and Political Union, laid plans to boycott the 1911 census. They urged...
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Suffrage Stories: The 1911 Census: A Liverpool Boycott – Or John Burns Meets...
As I have explained in previous posts, the militant suffrage societies, the Women’s Freedom League and the Women’s Social and Political Union, laid plans to boycott the 1911 census. They urged...
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Christmas List 2013 – To Give Or Receive
Woman and her Sphere List for Christmas 2013 Elizabeth Crawford 5 Owen’s Row London EC1V 4NP Send orders to me by email: e.crawford@sphere20.freeserve.co.uk Payment may be made by cheque, Paypal...
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Suffrage Stories: The British Museum’s Hunger-Strike Medal And The 1911...
Rather belatedly you might think, I’ve just realised that the British Museum holds a hunger-strike medal. It, together with a Holloway brooch (which rather oddly is the main image used to illustrate...
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