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Women Writers And Italy: Stalking Matilda Hays And ‘Adrienne Hope’
View up the Spanish Steps from the apartment A brief visit to Rome last week – staying once again in the abidingly diverting Landmark Trust apartment at the side of the Spanish Steps – allowed me to...
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Kate Frye’s Diary: What Happened When The Thames Flooded At Bourne End?
There is nothing new in Thames floods. Over 120 years ago (although from reading Kate Frye’s diary it seems like yesterday) the Thames overtopped the banks at Bourne End and flooded the garden of the...
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Suffrage Stories: 1911 Census: Vanishing For The Vote
TO BE PUBLISHED ON 6 MARCH 2014 As readers of this blog will know, since 2009 I have been involved in research on the suffrage boycott of the 1911 census. With Dr Jill Liddington, I worked to uncover...
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Suffrage Stories: Anti-Suffrage Sneaks And Their Stealthy Stickering
Below is an item that I found in a postcard album compiled by Mrs Louisa Thomson Price, one of the leaders of the Women’s Freedom League. Mrs Thomson Price acquired this sticker at a ‘Anti-Suffrage...
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Suffrage Stories: Five Reasons To Love Sally Heathcote Suffragette
I knew only of Mary Talbot as the author of the Costa-winning Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes when, a year ago, she got in touch, sending me PDFs of the bulk of Sally Heathcote Suffragette and asking what...
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Suffrage Stories: The 1866 Suffrage Petition – And The Geyser
Back in the days when the world was young, there was no internet, and antiquarian booksellers – as well as the layman/woman book-buyer – had to search their quarry among the stacks of brick and mortar...
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Suffrage Stories: 1911 Census: View House of Commons Talk – Vanishing For The...
A couple of months ago, to coincide with the publication of Dr Jill Liddington’s latest book, Vanishing for the Vote, I was pleased to take part in a three-hander talk – with Jill and Prof Pat Thane...
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Suffrage Stories: Shoulder To Shoulder – Conference And Campaign
Shoulder -To-Shoulder: Female Suffrage, Second-Wave Feminism and feminist TV Drama in the 1970s. I very much enjoyed attending this conference -Shoulder To Shoulder: Female Suffrage, Second-Wave...
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Kate Frye’s Suffrage Diary: Buckingham Palace, 21 May 1914
A hundred years ago today, on 21 May 1914, having failed to influence the government, Mrs Pankhurst’s Women’s Social and Political Union, decided to appeal directly to the King. Kate Frye, although not...
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Books And Ephemera For Sale: Catalogue 184
Woman and her Sphere Catalogue 184 Elizabeth Crawford 5 Owen’s Row London EC1V 4NP e.crawford@sphere20.freeserve.co.uk Image is taken from # 588 1.500 HOUSEWIVES Five Hundred Household Hints Country...
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Suffrage Stories/ Walks: The Actresses’ Franchise League – And Kate Frye
The Actresses’ Franchise League was founded in December 1908. Its purpose was to stage propaganda plays, the majority of which were specially written by members, hold meetings, sell suffrage...
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Suffrage Stories: Emily Wilding Davison: Centennial Celebrations
The Women’s History Review asked me to write a ‘Viewpoint’ about the 2013 100th anniversary commemoration of the death of Emily Wilding Davison. The resulting article – ‘Emily Wilding Davison:...
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Suffrage Stories: What Links Charles Dickens, The Rokeby Venus And The Number...
Mary Richardson, c 1913. This image of her was included in the sheet of ‘surveillance photographs’ of known suffragettes sent to museums and art galleries I was asked the other day to speak briefly on...
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Mariana Starke: Toxophilia – And Then To Italy, 1791
1791 was a most important year in the life of Mariana Starke. We last met her in January of that year when, with her friend and patron, Mrs Crespigny, she attended her play, The Widow of Malabar, on...
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Kate Frye’s Diary: Coming Soon: Kate Frye On Both The Small – And Even...
ITV have issued this press release which includes mention of my forthcoming e-book, to be published by ITV, Kate Parry Frye: the long life of an Edwardian actress and suffragette. ITV marks First...
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Kate Frye’s Diary: The Lead-Up To War: 2 July 1914
On 31 July 2014 ITV will publish an e-book, Kate Parry Frye: The Long Life of an Edwardian Actress and Suffragette. Based on her prodigious diary, this is my account of Kate Frye’s life and is a...
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Kate Frye’s Diary: The Lead-Up To War: 3 July 1914
On 31 July 2014 ITV will publish an e-book, Kate Parry Frye: The Long Life of an Edwardian Actress and Suffragette. Based on her prodigious diary, this is my account of Kate Frye’s life and is a...
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Kate Frye’s Diary: The Lead-Up To War: 4 July 1914
On 31 July 2014 ITV will publish an e-book, Kate Parry Frye: The Long Life of an Edwardian Actress and Suffragette. Based on her prodigious diary, this is my account of Kate Frye’s life and is a...
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Kate Frye’s Diary: The Lead-Up To War: 5 July 1914
On 31 July 2014 ITV will publish an e-book, Kate Parry Frye: The Long Life of an Edwardian Actress and Suffragette. Based on her prodigious diary, this is my account of Kate Frye’s life and is a...
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Kate Frye’s Diary: The Lead-Up To War: 6 July 1914
On 31 July 2014 ITV will publish an e-book, Kate Parry Frye: The Long Life of an Edwardian Actress and Suffragette. Based on her prodigious diary, this is my account of Kate Frye’s life and is a...
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