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Georgina Brackenbury
Georgina "Ina" Agnes Brackenbury (1 July 1865 – 27 July 1949) was a British painter who was known as a militant suffragette. She was jailed for demonstrating for women's rights. She followed Emmeline Pankhurst's lead as she became more militant (and lost former colleagues). Brackenbury was one of Emmeline Pankhurst's pallbearers. Her portrait of Pankhurst was bought by her memorial committee for the nation. Life Brackenbury was born at Royal Military Academy in Woolwich where her father, Major General Charles Booth Brackenbury who had been a Times correspondent before he was wounded was Director of the artillery college.Lloyd, E. (2004-09-23).Brackenbury, Charles Booth (1831–1890), army officer. ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''. Retrieved 8 January 2018. She was brought up by Flora Shaw, a governess housekeeper - as Brackenbury's mother, Hilda Eliza, disliked housework. In 1890 the family moved to Kensington after the death of their father. Her parents both had a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
The Royal Military Academy (RMA) at Woolwich, in south-east London, was a British Army military academy for the training of Officer (armed forces), commissioned officers of the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers. It later also trained officers of the Royal Corps of Signals and other technical corps. RMA Woolwich was commonly known as "The Shop" because its first building was a converted workshop of the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich Arsenal. History Origins in the Royal Arsenal An attempt had been made by the Board of Ordnance in 1720 to set up an academy within its Arsenal (then known as the Warren) to provide training and education for prospective officers of its new Royal Regiment of Artillery, Regiment of Artillery and Corps of Royal Engineers, Corps of Engineers (both of which had been established there in 1716). A new building was being constructed in readiness for the Academy and funds had been secured, seemingly, through investment in the South Sea Company; but the latter's col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Blathwayt
Mary Blathwayt (1 February 1879 – 25 June 1961) was a British feminist, suffragette and social reformer. She lived at Eagle House in Somerset. This house became known as the "Suffragette's Rest" and contained a memorial to the protests of 60 suffragists and suffragettes. The memorial was bulldozed in the 1960s. Early life Mary Blathwayt was born 1 February 1879 in Worthing, Sussex, the daughter of Colonel Linley Blathwayt, an army officer who had served in India, and his wife, Emily, who were first cousins. Upon retiring from active service, Colonel Blathwayt and his family moved from India to Eagle House, Batheaston, on the outskirts of Bath. Her younger brother, William, trained as an electrical engineer and taught English in Germany for many years before returning to England at the beginning of the First World War. Mary, remained at home and attended Bath High School. Campaigning for women's suffrage Blathwayt and her mother started attending meetings of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holland Park
Holland Park is an area of Kensington, on the western edge of Central London, that lies within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and largely surrounds its namesake park, Holland Park. Colloquially referred to as 'Millionaire's Row', Holland Park is among the most expensive residential areas in London and the United Kingdom. Past and present residents include David Beckham, David and Victoria Beckham, Sir Elton John, David Cameron, Ed Sheeran, Sir Richard Branson, and Robbie Williams, among others. The small neighborhood is further home to the List of diplomatic missions in London, embassies of several countries, including Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Greece, Jordan, Russia and Lebanon. The area is principally composed of tree-lined streets with large Victorian mansions and contains shops, cultural tourist attractions such as the Design Museum, luxury spas, hotels, and restaurants along Holland Park Avenue and Kensington High Street. Location and boundaries Holland Park is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Wylie
Barbara Fanny Wylie (11 September 1861–1954) was a British suffragette. In 1909 she joined the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and in 1910 she joined the Glasgow branch of WSPU as an activist and organizer. Wylie is best known for delivering a speech in support of women's suffrage during her 1912 Canadian speaking tour where she spoke the phrase "deeds not words". Family Barbara Fanny Wylie was born on 11th September 1861 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, daughter of Scottish civil engineer, David Wylie and Elizabeth Clarke. Wylie had three sisters and six brothers. All four Wylie sisters were a part British women's movement. Her brother David James Wylie achieved a civil engineering degree from Cheltenham College and in 1880 he emigrated to Saskatchewan, Canada and became representative with the Provincial Rights Party, from 1905 to 1917. Women's Social and Political Union – WSPU The Women's Social and Political Union was founded by Emmeline Pankhurst in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ada Wright
Ada Cecile Granville Wright (c. 1862–1939) was an English suffragette. Her photo on the front page of the ''Daily Mirror'' on 19 November became an iconic image of the suffrage movement. Biography Ada Cecile Granville Wright was born in Granville, Manche, Granville, France, around 1862. She attended the Slade School of Fine Art and University College, London, where she followed the physics lectures by Margaret Whelpdale (half-sister of Octavia Hill) and English lectures by Edward Aveling. For a short time she taught in Bonn, and then back in England, she wanted to take up social work, but was prevented in doing so by her father. She noted inequality of women and "wished [she] had been born a boy". After travelling widely with her family, she was able to follow her previous desire and take up social work in 1885, when she settled in Sidmouth. She worked in a settlement house with a niece of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. She joined the local women's suffrage society. After l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Naylor
Marie Naylor (1856 – 1940) was a British artist and militant suffragette. Life Naylor was born in London in 1856. She studied art and had a self portrait exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1890, which was commented on by the ''Illustrated London News''. She studied in Paris and exhibited in various exhibitions and she had a one-woman exhibition at Galerie Dosbourg in 1898 before returning to the UK where she took an interest in women's suffrage. In 1907, she joined the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), after previously belonging to the non-militant women's suffrage societies the National Union of Suffrage Societies and the Central Society for Women's Suffrage. Emily Blathwayt described her as "one of their (WSPU) best London speakers." In February 1908, Naylor was one of several suffragette including Vera Wentworth and the sisters Georgiana Brackenbury and Marie Brackenbury who were arrested for the Pantechnicon Raid. This WSPU stunt was to drop off a large group ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine "Kitty" Marshall
Katherine "Kitty" Marshall (born Emily Katherine Jacques; 1870–1947) was a British suffragette known for her role in the militant Women's Social and Political Union and as one of the bodyguard for the movement's leaders who had been trained in ju-jitsu. Life Marshall was born Emily Katherine Jacques in 1870, the daughter of the Rev Kinton Jacques of West Houghton, Lancashire. Her first marriage was to Hugh Finch, a doctor, the son of a vicar, who had contracted venereal disease in 1899 and passed it to Kitty, and from whom she was divorced in 1901. She then married Arthur Marshall, a solicitor, in 1904. She was involved as an active member of the Women's Social and Political Union which had been started by Emmeline Pankhurst in 1903. Arthur Marshall leaving Bow Street Court The Marshalls had set up the Pankhurst Testimonial Fund to buy Mrs Pankhurst's Devon home, although she did not stay in it much before going to the USA. When Emmeline Pankhurst died on 14 June 1928, Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mildred Mansel
Mildred Ella Mansel (, c. 1868 – 11 March 1942) was a British suffragette and organiser for the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) in Bath. Family Mansel was born in 1868 in Roehampton, Surrey. Her parents were the conservative politician Arthur Guest (1841–1898) and suffragist Adeline Chapman (1847–1931). Her mother was a member of the Central Society for Women's Suffrage and the Women's Tax Resistance League. She had a brother, Arthur Rhuvon Guest. Her family were well connected in society, as Mansel’s grandmother was the aristocrat and linguist Lady Charlotte Guest (1812–1895) and her first cousin was Ivor Churchill Guest, 1st Viscount Wimborne (1873–1939), member of Parliament for Cardiff and the Liberal Party chief whip. She married Colonel John Delalynde Mansel of Bayford Lodge, Wincanton in 1888. They had three children, two daughters and a son. Activism Mansel became an campaigner for women's enfranchisement and was a member of the WSPU by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harriet Kerr
Harriet Roberta Kerr (1859–1940) was a British suffragette and office manager of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). Life Kerr was born in 1859 in Wanstead, Essex. Her father was a professor of architecture at King's College London King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public university, public research university in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of George IV of the United Kingdom, King George IV .... Kerr ran a successful secretarial agency in London, but she gave up her business to dedicate herself to working for the campaign for women's enfranchisement. In 1906, she was appointed as the paid office manager of the national headquarters of the WSPU in Clement's Inn, London, on the agreement that her work would be solely administrative. She oversaw volunteers and mentored new recruits such as Charlotte Marsh. On 30 April 1913, Kerr was arrested alongside Beatrice Sanders, Rachel Bar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmeline Pankhurst
Emmeline Pankhurst (; Goulden; 15 July 1858 – 14 June 1928) was a British political activist who organised the British suffragette movement and helped women to win in 1918 the women's suffrage, right to vote in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Great Britain and Ireland. In 1999, ''Time (magazine), Time'' named her as one of the Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century, 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century, stating that "she shaped an idea of objects for our time" and "shook society into a new pattern from which there could be no going back". She was widely criticised for her militant tactics, and historians disagree about their effectiveness, but her work is recognised as a crucial element in achieving women's suffrage in the United Kingdom. Born in the Moss Side district of Manchester to politically active parents, Pankhurst was 16 when she was introduced to the women's suffrage movement. She founded and became involved with the Women's Franch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Group Photograph Of Suffragettes At Bazaar In Glasgow In 1910
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Marion Wallace Dunlop
Marion Wallace Dunlop (22 December 1864 – 12 September 1942) was a Scottish artist, author and illustrator of children's books, and suffragette. She was the first and one of the most well known British suffrage activists to go on hunger strike on 5 July 1909, after being arrested in July 1909 for militancy.''The Militant Suffrage Movement : Citizenship and Resistance in Britain'', by Laura E. Nym Mayhall, Assistant Professor of History Catholic University of America She was at the centre of the Women's Social and Political Union and designed some of the most influential processions of the UK suffrage campaign, as well as designing banners for them. Biography Wallace Dunlop was born at Leys Castle, Inverness, Scotland, on 22 December 1864, the daughter of Robert Henry Wallace Dunlop and his second wife, Lucy Wallace Dunlop (née Dowson; 1836–1914). Although commonly believed to have studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, there is no official record of Wallace Du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
