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1911 Census Boycotters
These British suffragettes and suffragists are known to have participated in the boycott of the 1911 United Kingdom census. The number of boycotters has been estimated to have been in the thousands, but was probably fewer than 100,000 in total. Notable women who participated in the boycott include: * Laura Ainsworth, 38 other women and one man sought to hide in Jezreel's Tower in Gillingham, Kent, but they were betrayed and still counted by census officials. * Rhoda Anstey: participated on behalf of the Anstey College of Physical Education, which she had founded in 1897 * Helen Archdale: hosted a mass census boycott party with Adela Pankhurst * Minnie Baldock * Inez Bensusan: member of the Actresses' Franchise League who performed during a mass evasion party * Rosa May Billinghurst * Mary Blathwayt * Nina Boyle * Georgina Brackenbury * Marie Brackenbury * Constance Bryer * Florence Canning * Joan Cather and her husband * Joseph Clayton * Annie Coultate * Ellen Cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suffragettes Boycotting 1911 Census In Manchester
A suffragette was a member of an activist women's organisation in the early 20th century who, under the banner "Votes for Women", fought for women's suffrage, the right to vote in public elections in the United Kingdom. The term refers in particular to members of the British Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), a women-only movement founded in 1903 by Emmeline Pankhurst, which engaged in direct action and civil disobedience. In 1906, a reporter writing in the ''Daily Mail'' coined the term ''suffragette'' for the WSPU, derived from Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom#Pressure groups, suffragist (any person advocating for voting rights), in order to belittle the women advocating women's suffrage. The militants embraced the new name, even reappropriation, adopting it for use as the title of the newspaper published by the WSPU. Women had won the right to vote in several countries by the end of the 19th century; in 1893, New Zealand became the first self-governing coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
