Women Writers' Suffrage League

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politics Christopher St John
She was arrested in 1909 for setting a pillar box on fire. She worked for the Women's Social and Political Union , the Writers' Franchise League (which she helped found), the Catholic Women's Suffrage Society
politics Marie Belloc Lowndes
MBL was an active member of the Women Writers' Suffrage League : the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography reports that she served as its President. She wrote later that most members of the Thirty Club
politics Flora Annie Steel
FAS , as President of the Women Writers' Suffrage League , spoke at the Criterion Restaurant in London debate about the suffrage, against Mary Augusta Ward , who was speaking for the Anti-Suffrage Society .
Powell, Violet. Flora Annie Steel: Novelist of India. Heinemann, 1981.
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politics Flora Annie Steel
FAS was a supporter of the women's suffrage movement and a member of the Women Writers' Suffrage League . Women's lack of the vote, she felt, was illogical, not to say grotesque—exactly the kind...
Textual Features Elizabeth Robins
As preface it reprints Woman's Secret (first published in 1900 for the WSPU by the Garden City Press of Letchworth), which argues that women's disadvantaged position is not the result of a conspiracy by...
Textual Production May Sinclair
MS 's pamphlet Feminism, which puts the case for women's suffrage, was published by the Women Writers' Suffrage League , Women's Press .
Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1973.
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Textual Production Elizabeth Robins
Betweem 1908 and 1910 ER gave a series of speeches to the Women Writers' Suffrage League (all later collected in Way Stations).
Liggins, Emma. “The ’Sordid Story’ of an Unwanted Child: Militancy, Motherhood, and Abortion in Elizabeth Robins’s Votes for Women and Way Stations”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
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, No. 3, Aug. 2018, pp. 347-61.
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Textual Production Sarah Macnaughtan
SM gave a speech at a reception for the Women Writers' Suffrage League . The complete text is not known, but important parts of the speech were highlighted in an article by Evelyn Isitt which...

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