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Suffrage Stories: ‘Home Art Decorator’ To The Queen – And The ‘Human Letter’
For some time I have been meaning to investigate Charlotte Robinson, ‘Home Art Decorator’ to Queen Victoria, mention of whom I came across years ago while researching the interior design career of...
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Mrs Hartley Brown And Miss Townshend -19th-c Interior Decorators: Who Were They?
In a chapter on ‘Decorative Art in England (Travels in South Kensington, 1882) Moncure Conway commended Rhoda and Agnes Garrett for their ‘admirable treatment of the new female colleges connected with...
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Suffrage Stories: Christabel, The Ballot Box And That Hat
Pretend you are taking a GCSE paper. One of questions states that this picture shows Christabel Pankhurst casting her first parliamentary vote. You have to decide whether this statement is true or...
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Books And Ephemera For Sale: Catalogue 187
Woman and her Sphere Catalogue 187 Elizabeth Crawford 5 Owen’s Row London EC1V 4NP e.crawford@sphere20.freeserve.co.uk Item 495 (for description see below) Index to Catalogue Non-fiction: Items 1-169...
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The Story Of An Absent – And Errant – Great-Grandfather
Most posts on this blog tell of campaigners for women’s rights. However among them I have already included two of more general interest that relate to the history of my own family. One – ‘Glad Were...
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Kate Frye’s Diary: 20 April 1915: Condemnation Of The Prattlers For Peace
In April 1915 Kate Frye was still working with the New Constitutional Society for Women’s Suffrage when it was announced that an International Congress of Women would convene at The Hague. Around 1200...
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Suffrage Stories: The 1866 Petition: J.S. Mill And The South Hackney Connection
In a previous post that I wrote about the 1866 women’s suffrage petition I recorded something of how the petition came into being and investigated the connections that had led an erstwhile near...
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Suffrage Stories: The 1866 Petition: The Aldeburgh Connection
In a previous post I recorded something of how the 1866 women’s suffrage petition came into being. Comprising 1499 names, it was presented to John Stuart Mill, MP for Westminster, by Emily Davies and...
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Suffrage Stories: Two New Exhibitions
Last week I visited two small exhibitions – both centring on the theme of ‘Campaigning’. The first was a temporary exhibition (alas, it ends tomorrow, Friday 22 May, so hurry to catch it) – Blackguards...
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Caroline Crommelin and Florence Goring Thomas: 19thc Interior Decorators: Who...
Caroline Anna de Cherois Crommelin (c 1854-1910) was born in Co Down, Ireland, one of the many children of Samuel de la Cherois Crommelin of Carrowdore Castle. Carrowdore Castle Although of gentle...
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Kate Frye’s Suffrage Diary: London’s First Zepp Raid 1915
Kate is living in Pimlico and still working at the office of the New Constitutional Society for Women’s Suffrage in Knightsbridge. The society is now devoting itself to supporting the war effort....
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Suffrage Stories: Helen Watts And The Mystery Of The Unclaimed Trunk
In May I attended a very interesting seminar – ‘”I am a part of all who I have met”: Why Social Networks Mattered for Suffragette Militancy‘ – given at the Institute of Historical Research by Dr Gemma...
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Books And Ephemera For Sale: Catalogue 188
Woman and her Sphere Catalogue 188 Elizabeth Crawford e.crawford@sphere20.freeserve.co.uk WSPU China – see items #401-#404 Index to Catalogue Non-fiction: Items 1-158 Biography: Items 159-216 Ephemera:...
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Kate Frye’s Suffrage Diary: Kate And The ‘Right To Work’ March, 17 July 1915
This summer is passing so quickly that I realise that I’ve missed – by two weeks or so- the 100th anniversary of Kate Frye’s final involvement with the New Constitutional Society for Women’s Suffrage....
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Kate Frye’s Diary: Abbie Frye, ‘L. Parry Truscott’, Ditchling And The...
I dedicated Kate Parry Frye: the long life of an Edwardian actress and suffragette to all those women who, in the words of George Eliot, have ‘lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited...
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Suffrage Stories/Walks: Anne Cobden Sanderson And 15 Upper Mall, Hammersmith
One day last week, while thunder raged outside, I spent some time researching an archive at the William Morris Society premises in Upper Mall, Hammersmith. Just before I left I remembered that close by...
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Suffrage Stories/Collecting Suffrage: Countdown To 12 October And Release Of...
To celebrate the release on 12 October of the film ‘Suffragette’ (with which I had a slight association) I will post each day an image of a suffrage item that has passed through my hands. For my...
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Suffrage Stories/Collecting Suffrage: Countdown To 12 October And Release Of...
To celebrate the release on 12 October of the film ‘Suffragette’ (with which I had a slight association) I will post each day an image of a suffrage item that has passed through my hands. For my...
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Suffrage Stories/Collecting Suffrage: Countdown To 12 October And Release Of...
To celebrate the release on 12 October of the film ‘Suffragette’ (with which I had a slight association) I will post each day an image of a suffrage item that has passed through my hands. For my...
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Suffrage Stories/Collecting Suffrage: Countdown To 12 October And Release Of...
To celebrate the release on 12 October of the film ‘Suffragette’ (with which I had a slight association) I will post each day an image of a suffrage item – or, in the case of today, items – that have...
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