11 10 286 https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/7b7037498f0fbf48f1ced5a872f0db1e.jpg 55bac62f1384d0cf1a097ac5e23147e2 Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 60 Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Hillside, Park Hill, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, CV8 2JG Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Married Occupation No Occupation Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census CUWFA Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Complies Biographical Text Mrs Fayerman and her family regularly attended CUWFA meetings in 1911. The CUWFA formed in 1908 to work peacefully and constitutionally for ‘the removal of the sex disqualification from the franchise’ by bringing Conservative and Unionist’s together.  'Hillside' the Fayerman house may have been demolished. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ellen Elizabeth Fayerman Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant POINT(-174579.01780206556 6863573.303886168) CUWFA https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/e9473e104bd86b4d973c26ac764b25e3.png 81b02a7945f34e72e1875b80164ce3a9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Ellen Pitfield's list of arrests from a Home Office Index of Suffragettes Arrested. Source and Copyright: The National Archives. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/aa660254eb89c42c26cb3c57e6f8e546.jpg ff015337c563bb41d1513eea2b5f398a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Photograph of the New Women's Hospital where Ellen worked and resided on Euston Road, circa 1899. Source: The Wellcome Collection. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/8f88cd96a0dc650ed8339505537b4fcc.jpg 7425d7240592fc4f45f54b15a77f6be8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Two wards at the New Hospital for Women from a magazine, 1899. Source: The Wellcome Collection. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/0e7e9aa14459f901f453b8a3feb1aaa5.jpg 92dfe73ac1f4785bf90478a24c883eb6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Ellen's 1911 census return. Source: The National Archives. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/d756f5f2d1e9e602b36514d1f5fdb5cc.jpg 52b27513c88d6828465678d0d5bf7ad0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 'A Soldier to the Death'. A transcript of Ellen's letter to WSPU leader Emmeline Pankhurst, 1912. Source: The National Archives. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/84918023d2093057475927e6cde2f6b0.jpg 4bc1936b2c82a327287882a3c0ce1953 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Home Office Record of Ellen's final act of militancy at the Post Office in 1912. Source and Copyright: The National Archives (Ref HO144-1193-220196-1-2330086). Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Nurse Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Single Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census New Hospital for Women, Euston Road, London. Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census WSPU Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Resists Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 43 Biographical Text Ellen Pitfield was a trained nurse and midwife and probably joined the WSPU in 1908. She subsequently became a fully-fledged WSPU suffragette and was arrested five times during the women’s suffrage campaign for militant activity – twice in 1909, twice in 1910 and once more in 1912 (see image). In 1909, Ellen went on hunger strike during a term of imprisonment and was awarded the WSPU’s Hunger Strike Medal. When she was arrested in November 1910, it was at an infamous protest that became known as ‘Black Friday’ because of the violence meted out upon suffragettes by the police. Ellen was injured in the scuffles that broke out. In 1911, when the census survey was taken, Ellen was working and residing at the New Hospital for Women, Euston Road, London. The hospital was originally founded by Britain’s first female doctor, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, and occupied several premises before finding a home in Euston Road (see images). Ellen appears on the census survey taken there but resists, refusing to give her information. The census official writes: ’Suffragette – Refused Information’. Subsequently, Ellen discovered she had cancer and would not recover. Her commitment to the suffragette cause is really captured by what she did next despite her diagnosis. A demonstration was organised by the WSPU on the 4th March 1912 in support of which Ellen wrote to WSPU leader Emmeline Pankhurst declaring herself 'A Soldier to the death'. She then set fire to a basket of wood shavings at the General Post Office, also breaking a window there, and gave herself up to police to raise publicity for the cause. That month, she was sentenced to six months imprisonment and was carried from court to the prison hospital. Prison authorities aware of her condition, asked Ellen to swear an undertaking against further militant action in consideration of her early release. She refused but expressed that ‘it was not in her to offend again’. A petition ensued for Ellen's release which likely happened in May. She was cared for upon her release by (see) WSPU Nurse Catherine Pine and Gertrude Townend at their nursing home at 9 Pembridge Gardens, Notting Hill. She died a few months later in August, 1912. Sources: Various documents courtesy of the National Archives. 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Source: courtesy The National Archives Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation None known Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 50 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Single Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Lower Rookery, Ditchling, Sussex Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census NUWSS Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Complies Biographical Text Rose Chute Ellis (1861-1947) was the daughter of a member of the Legislative Council of South Australia, and appears to have come to Sussex in 1908, the year of the marriage of her brother, Boer War veteran Lt-Col William Chute Ellis, to Constance, the youngest of the four Bull sisters who ran a girls’ school at their home, Trevelyan, in Haywards Heath. Rose lived first in Ditchling with her companion Susan Armitage and Susan’s orphaned niece and nephew. By 1911 Rose was a popular speaker for the Central Sussex Women’s Suffrage Society (CSWSS): a speech at a summer garden meeting was reportedly ‘as refreshing as fizzing magnesia’. With Brighton’s Edith Pickworth and (see) Flora de Gaudrion Merrifield, Rose addressed outreach meetings in Ditchling and the village of Streat. In 1912 she and Susan moved their household to Cuckfield to live near CSWSS secretary and treasurer, (see) Edith Bevan, and helped Edith Bevan organise the Haywards Heath Sweated Industries Exhibition. Rose was on the platform at its opening, with Flora, Marie Corbett, and Louisa Martindale. As a member of the Girls Friendly Society, she worked with Dorothy Bonavia Hunt and her mother, and Mrs Bonavia Hunt expressed appreciation of the ‘spiritual aspect’ of Rose’s suffragist principles. Rose was the leading light of the Sussex Suffrage Amateurs, who performed plays written for the Actresses’ Franchise League. A favourite was A Chat with Mrs Chicky. Rose always played the title role; those who took a turn to play opposite her included (see) Alys Russell. Rose enjoyed the support of her brother, Lt-Col Chute Ellis. Declaring himself to have been a suffragist for 30 years, he chaired a meeting, held by the Burgess Hill Pleasant Wednesday Evening Society, addressed by Rose on Woman’s Place and Power in the State. When he and his wife hosted a suffrage garden meeting at their Burgess Hill home in Burgess Hill, he introduced speaker Rose as ‘well-known in the neighbourhood’. On Monday 21 July, Rose was among Cuckfield and Central Sussex suffragists, led by Edith Bevan and accompanied by photographer (see) Douglas Miller, who met suffrage Pilgrims from Brighton at Stonepound Crossroads, Hassocks. The following morning, she and Susan joined Edith Bevan, (see) Marie Corbett, (see) Louisa Martindale, Flora de Gaudrion Merrifield, (see) Dorothy Bonavia Hunt, and other CSWSS members, to set off from Cuckfield for the second day of marching. At the Hyde Park rally at the end of that week, Rose, Susan, and Edith were among the CSWSS stalwarts present around the Reformers’ Tree. A month later, at a CSWSS meeting at Ditchling, Rose referred to the Pilgrimage as ‘the most delightful week of my whole life’, a vindication of NUWSS non-militant methods. During the War, Rose’s campaigned for NUWSS hospital tents and children’s welfare; she helped organise a Ministry of Food talk in Cuckfield by (see) Elizabeth Robins. After the War, she and Susan moved with Edith Bevan to East Chiltington, Plumpton. Here Rose became successively founder, secretary, and President of the Plumpton WI, and ten years later, founder member of the League of Nations Plumpton branch. Sources: Mid Sussex Times Sussex Express Common Cause ESRO WI/62/3/1 Plumpton WI scrapbook. NB. the location of Ellen's home is approximated on the map. Contributed by: Frances Stenlake, Independent Researcher & Writer. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ellen Rose Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(-12476.577206882555 6607011.444362038) NUWSS https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/d84a5d5e0e3f4cecb0b25466f120582f.jpg 6a13cd68837089a3974be41eb3595b34 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Source: The National Archives. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 41 Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Rosehill, Coventry (situated between Radford Road and St Nicholls Street) Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Married Occupation None given Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census NUWSS Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Complies Biographical Text Elsie was born in Preston, Lancashire, and married Sidney Cash, chairman of the Coventry Company Messrs. J & J Cash Ltd, founded by his late father Joseph Cash. The couple had two sons one of whom was killed in the First World War. Elsie was a regular campaigner for female suffrage and was a member of the Coventry Women's Suffrage Society, the local branch of the large, law abiding NUWSS. She was likely also a member of the CUWFA (Conservative and Unionist Women's Franchise Association). Elsie was also active in the wider Coventry community fundraising for local charities, campaigning for the extension of University examinations to girls, sitting on the Council's National Insurance Committee and its Education Committee until her resignation in 1915. She later moved to Keresley House and then to Walcote, Blackdown, where she was active in the church and wider community. Elsie died there in 1953 aged 84 and her funeral was held at Lillington Church. Researcher: Tara Morton. Coventry research funded by Warwick University. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Elsie Cash Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(-168849.27929636213 6875562.316638395) NUWSS https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/46896e60e8899d5bdd012d50adce55dc.jpg 9db1fb58a9aa1288a537f1213c6138e8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Vicarage (Easebourne Street) Easebourne, Midhurst. Source: courtesy of the Midhurst Society 2021. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/7485fdb70000a710ca7882541276a9d6.jpg 5b2b1d79fa050cf1440bc0059f658c34 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Elsie Cummins 1909 WFL badge (front). Source: https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/17955/lot/1017/ https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/0b66c62f6a9f0fbe0bfe73b0b52a4e08.jpg 38a171fd17e6bf38caa6fd56f1efee47 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Elsie Cummins 1909 WFL badge (back). Source: https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/17955/lot/1017/ https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/1fb40240df466fe1b53097305275783b.jpg 886e2698b583e8a423a91c80e332effd Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource 1911 census form for the Vicarage naming Elsie's sisters Vinvela & Christabel as 'Suffragettes wandering about all night'. Source: courtesy The National Archives. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation None given Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Unknown Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Single Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census The Vicarage, Easebourne, West Sussex Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census WFL Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Complies Biographical Text The Cummin family lived at Easebourne Vicarage from 1892 when Revd Joseph Cummin was appointed Vicar. In July 1908 Muriel Matters’ caravan tour of the Bognor and Chichester area resulted in the formation of a Midhurst/West Sussex WFL branch. Its secretary was Vinvela Cummin, the eldest of the four surviving Cummin sisters; Elsie was treasurer. Florence de Fonblanque chaired its first public meeting, held at Easebourne. When, in October, Muriel Matters was arrested for chaining herself to the Ladies Grille in the House of Commons, Vinvela wrote to North Sussex MP Lord Winterton asking him to support the transfer of Muriel Matters from 3rd to 1st Division. His hostile reply was printed in several provincial newspapers. In March 1909 a triumphal procession preceded a lively meeting at Midhurst welcoming Madge Turner back from imprisonment for trying to present a petition to PM Asquith on behalf of the West Sussex WFL. This was led by WFL founder member Anne Cobden Sanderson, who, as fourth daughter of Richard Cobden, had spent her early years at Dunford House, Midhurst. Vinvela carried the banner donated by her mother. In July 1909 it was widely reported that Elsie was one of four women arrested for refusing to move away from the door of 10 Downing St while waiting for a reply from Asquith to a petition they had handed in. They were sentenced to three weeks in Holloway. A celebratory breakfast and afternoon appearance in Trafalgar Square took place on the day of their release, and each of the women was presented with a prison banner and silver prison brooch at a Caxton Hall reception five days later. Elsie’s return to Easebourne was celebrated at a meeting in the Vicarage where she was presented with an illuminated address. The West Sussex WFL qualified to march, carrying its banner, in the WFL section of the WSPU’s Prisoners’ Pageant in London on 18 June 1910. In April 1910 Vinvela, already ‘the lady member’ of Easebourne Parish Council, stood for the WFL as the first ‘lady’ candidate in the local Rural District Council election. She failed to win one of the three Easebourne seats but was reported to be undeterred by her defeat and began to campaign with other local suffragists at meetings of the National Committee for the Prevention of Destitution. A particular Easebourne ally of the Cummin sisters was Annie Roff who later joined Florence de Fonblanque’s Marchers Qui Vive. She reported to the WFL newspaper The Vote on a meeting at Midhurst at which tax resistance and Census evasion were recommended. Elsie and her youngest sister, Mary, remained at the Vicarage to be listed on the Census with their father. Below their names, were written in red the words ‘Suffragettes wandering about all night’, then the names of Vinvela and Christabel. Following their father’s retirement in 1912, the Cummin sisters moved to Froxfield, near Petersfield, Hampshire, and Vinvela, continuing to demand improved village housing, became chair of the Petersfield branch of the National Land and Home League. In 1913 she announced herself as a tax resister and at the beginning of December an auction sale at the home of ‘the Misses Cummin’ was followed by a supportive protest meeting on Froxfield Green addressed by the WFL’s Eunice Murray and Nina Boyle. By 1913 the WFL was campaigning against the failure of the Courts to convict men accused of sexual abuse of women and children and took up the case of a 14-year-old girl who became pregnant as a result of being raped by one of her mother’s police constable lodgers. At the Old Bailey PC Wetherall was acquitted of repeated criminal assault and remained in post, and as part of the WFL’s demand for a re-trial, members took turns to picket outside the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. Elsie and four others were arrested here at the end of March 1914. Brought before magistrates at Bow Street, they ‘spoke out strongly’ against the protection of criminals such as PC Wetherall and his being allowed to remain in the force. All refused to pay the 40 shillings fine, so were sentenced to 14 days. The WFL held a ‘Prisoners’ Reception’ in April 1914 to award ‘prison badges’ to the 12 members who had been imprisoned for their part in publicising the Wetherall case. Elsie was one of two absentees who sent letters regretting that it was impossible for them to be present but saying that they were full of eagerness for further service. Sources: Bognor Regis Observer, Brighton Gazette, Chichester Observer, Hants Advertiser, Hants News, Portsmouth Evening News, West Sussex County Times, West Sussex Gazette, London Evening Standard, Vote, Women’s Franchise. Contributed by Frances Stenlake, Independent Researcher. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Elsie Cummin Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(-80578.61339949444 6620704.527634925) WFL https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/c7c08233f5ab37e58b7e0c80ceabf315.png 4febc738429f396223f5eabe3d7b9de4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Elsie Howey in 1909. Source: Bath in Time Archive. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/ce1e225f608570b5fe40ab404c7458ed.png 6eccf20e75214c078af989b87338c77b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Source: Elsie Howey, 1909. Courtesy The National Archives Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation None known Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 26 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Single Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census WSPU Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Evades Biographical Text Elsie Howey was the daughter of a clergyman. She was born in Finningley, South Yorkshire, in 1884 but the family moved to Malvern after her father’s death in 1887. Her sister (see) Mary Howey was also a suffragette. She attended the University of St Andrews, studying English, French and German between 1902-1904. In February 1908 Elsie was arrested, along with her sister Mary, for taking part in a demonstration outside the House of Commons. She was sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment. In May 1908, she campaigned with Annie Kenney and Mary Blathwayt at a by-election in Shropshire. Elsie was arrested for the second time after taking part in a demonstration outside the home of Herbert Asquith. She was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. Others called her “a wonderful speaker”, but eventually her voice was damaged due to forced feeding when on hunger strike during a prison term. Elsie went to work for the WSPU in Bristol. Whilst there, she and Vera Holme hid in a large pipe organ at Colston Hall to disrupt a political meeting calling ‘Votes for Women‘ from the organ but no-one could discover where the sound was coming from. In 1909, Howey rode as Joan of Arc (see image) at the head of the procession to welcome Mrs Pethick-Lawrence on her release from Holloway Prison. Together with Vera Wentworth and Jessie Kenney, Elsie also assaulted Herbert Asquith and Herbert Gladstone on a golf course. She was criticised for this attack by WSPU supporter and the owner of Eagle House in Bath who wrote to Christabel Pankhurst that Elsie and Vera would no longer be welcome there. Eagle House belonged to the Blathwayt family and was used as a refuge by numerous suffragettes on the run from police or recovering from their treatment during terms of imprisonment. He wrote that "an attack on one undefended man by three women was an act I did not expect from the Society". Elsie had planted a tree there on 9 May, 1909. In January 1910, Constance Lytton was imprisoned and forcibly fed at Walton Gaol. In response, Howey broke the gaol governor's windows so that she too would be jailed in support. She was arrested again in 1910, in Penzance, and was on hunger strike for 144 hours. In total, she was arrested six times. It took her four months to recover from throat injuries caused by forced feeding carried out to undermine her hunger striking. It appears that Elsie evaded the government's 1911 census being absent from her family home at Holly lodge. Like many suffragettes, her life and living arrangements at this time were transient. Elsie continued her militant campaign. Her final arrest, in 1912, resulted in all her teeth being broken. In June 1913, Elsie again played the role of Joan of Arc at the funeral of Emily Wilding Davison.  Elsie died on 13 March 1963 at the Court House Nursing Home, Court Road, Malvern after a lifetime of illness. Source: https://suffragettestories.omeka.net/bio-elsie-howey & Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928 (Routledge). Contributed by Herefordshire community fundraiser, Clare Wichbold MBE. Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Holly Lodge, Cradley, Malvern Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Elsie Howey Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(-258541.08693620883 6824086.783521306) WSPU https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/26a89034b4c0b16c05c1e428ccfbbcd5.jpg 2a3bcedd1c064a0458eff07b0d6a4b4a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Elvira Stirling. Source: Ancestry.com https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/3c624d59f1918c68945b9c7de654bfce.jpg aacbc618cd2e7ca7dac088dd4926043b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Source: The National Archives. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/7073582a192fff31836c0814c5633bdc.jpg 94544e0afab9dbd138474b1671878487 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The committee rooms Elvira is reported to have 'dressed'. Source: Gloucester Citizen 28 April 1911. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation WSPU worker. Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 24 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Single Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 30 Clarence Square, Cheltenham. Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census WSPU Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Resists. Biographical Text Miss Elvira Stirling and her mother Frances were supporters of the WSPU, apparently recruited when the WSPU organiser, Ada Flatman, arrived in Cheltenham in early 1911 to set up a local branch. Both were galvanised by activities in the spring of 1911 when a campaign for a by-election at the end of April coincided with the local and a national campaign for votes for women supporters to take part in the census boycott. Miss Elvira is reported to have 'dressed' the committee-room window (see image) in a prominent position in the High Street. Elvira and her mother's statement across the census form (see image) plus their details constitutes a form of resistance to the government census. Elvira's mother was a Canadian whose British husband was involved in various businesses in both countries before finally settling in Canada as a fruit farmer. Four of their five living children were born there and the whole family moved back there in 1913. Researched and contributed by Sue Jones author of 'Votes for Women: Cheltenham and the Cotswolds' (The History Press, 2018). Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Elvira Stirling Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(-230892.55434947825 6783085.035034238) WSPU https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/b7dd7e655d125d9ce368adc73dde0961.png d3227af482f12963a221d7d717a70a35 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Emily Wilding Davison. Source: London School of Economics (LSE) Library. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/fc7287cf7b0172d7de0480bc4259464c.jpg 7f3edfea1b4ff97e0b85a186e84fd178 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Emily's 1911 census recording her (with errors) in parliament. Source: National Archives. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/4aeb747453932c22dbd2f209f4fafeaa.jpg c1ce96ab2bb6729625f2c5bb88be998e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Emily's 1911 census recording where she was living in Coram Street. Source: National Archives. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/262ae270fa7adf842636fa467611e1e0.jpg c9abeb47a1ee4892d7decb28352de788 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Emily's mother Margaret Davison's house (with billboard) in Longhorsley, c.1930. Source & contributed by: Longhorsley Local History Society Archive. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/4e898365e295b4a90c0acdeb2d16be44.jpg 26c52ea2dd5e4e70091e50d47a3ed73a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Emily's handwritten letter to North Mail. Source: Longhorsley Local History Society Archive. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/1e35d2b5fd0cb22f287bd82fd5ffebe8.jpg f4550ed207b42e532173d36a8c007544 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Wall plaque erected in 1993 commemorating Emily's final visit to Longhorsley. Source: Longhorsley Local History Society. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/1509fdbe13349b2cdb7db85a2c36a1a3.png c575efd97d77dcad9884ef0b0432f595 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Hate letter to Emily from 'An Englishman' as she lay in her hospital bed (June 1913). Source: London School of Economics (LSE) Library. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/4ef3ba92e5de7019a505a339997318b9.png 24a872a151ff2a8728ca94a9ebf16ac4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Emily's funeral in London, 1913. Source: London School of Economics (LSE) Library. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/845859e94e7e25345844b788463c72f4.png 75ed75ecbd5b5d3e517b52e07e81843a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Source: courtesy Parliamentary Archives HCSASJ1012/66. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Political secretary Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 38 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Single Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 31 Coram Street, London. Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census WSPU Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Evades Biographical Text Emily (1872-1913) went to Kensington High School and later obtained a first class degree having attended London and Oxford university. She worked chiefly as a governess and joined the WSPU in November 1906. In March 1909, Emily was one of several women arrested after taking part in a deputation to try and meet with Prime Minister Herbert Asquith. She was imprisoned for one month. This experience marked a turning point in Emily's life. Afterwards, she wrote a letter to the WSPU magazine, Votes for Women (11 June, 1909) expressing how: 'Through my humble work in this noblest of causes I have come into a fullness of joy and an interest in living which I have never before experienced'. Thereafter, Emily embarked upon a series of militant actions that eventually led to her death after being trampled under the King's horse when she rushed onto the track at Epsom Derby in 1913. Her militant actions included smashing windows, throwing fake bombs into a political meeting, and hiding herself in the Houses of Parliament whenever possible. One such occasion was on census night on the 2nd April, 1911, when Emily took part in the orchestrated suffragette boycott of the government census. She hid out in a cupboard there (where there is now a commemorative plaque) and upon her discovery a clerk recorded her place of residence on the census survey as the Houses of Parliament - a symbolic location for a disenfranchised woman. In fact, Emily was recorded twice on the government census survey in two different places (see images). She was also recorded - though evidently absent that night - at the place she was then living as a lodger in Coram Street where she appears on our suffrage map (approximate location). Her details were likely provided for the census by her 'helpful' housekeeper Mrs Bateman and far more accurately than those recorded by the parliament clerk. During the suffrage campaign, Emily endured multiple arrests, imprisonments, hunger strikes and was subjected to forcible feedings in prison. This was a brutal practice originally implemented to prevent suffragette 'martyr' deaths as well as their early release from prison as a result of hunger striking. Emily regularly visited Longhorsley in Northumberland during the campaign to visit her mother, Margaret, who ran a shop in the village (see image). She recuperated from spells of imprisonment in Longhorsley and was nursed back to health by her mother. Emily stayed in Longhorsley from late June 1912 for five months with short trips to other parts of the country. She wrote letters to many newspapers in the autumn of 1912 (see image) and called Longhorsley home. There is a plaque commemorating the final time she spent there before her death at Epsom Derby (see images). Upon Emily's death in 1913, she was given a lavish funeral through London's streets by the WSPU, though she had been considered something of a 'rogue' suffragette by them in life. The hate mail Emily received during her short time in a coma in hospital before death, demonstrates the vitriol some had for suffragettes. The letter (see image) written by 'An Englishman' hopes that she 'suffers torture' and laments the missed 'opportunity of starving and beating you to a pulp'. Emily's friends founded the Emily Wilding Davison club in her memory. Many thanks to Margaret Scott and Longhorsley Local History Society for providing information and images related to Emily's time in Longhorsley. You can read more about their research into Emily's life in Longhorsley at https://sites.google.com/site/longhorsleylocalhistorysociety/emily-wilding-davison. For general sources used see: Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928 (London: 2001). There is much recent literature available on Emily as well as electronic sources, but a classic text is A. Morley and L Stanley, The Life and Death of Emily Wilding Davison (London: 1988). For more on Emily's relationship to the Houses of Parliament see https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/electionsvoting/womenvote/case-studies-women-parliament/ewd/. Contributed by: Tara Morton. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Emily Wilding Davison Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(-14067.142746534888 6714465.501112172) WSPU https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/cfc6b4e47c2da7bd02ac639ff8be7904.jpg d7036483b4bb0333989a10f744d225de Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Emma circa 1910. Source & Copyright: Wolverhampton Archives. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/fac07d460235ce0252ca6da9be6d5640.png 9a26943a20e50ae2d4a1ed006c603bc2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Emma's name in the Home Office 'Suffragettes Arrested Index'. Source: courtesy of The National Archives. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/77b7f4eb224ad76aeebc6cdc56a09953.jpg 7651b35f0bc2ddf7ef7e53bed7867df1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Source: Courtesy of the National Archives. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/a0461e4a1f0903e6d303f2cc26c8659b.png f0af62150f3951e67d004b07aa7cf05f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Poem Emma wrote in Stafford prison in 1911. Source: The Vote, 15 July, 1911. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation None given Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 43 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Married Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Kelmscott, 225 Hordern Road, Wolverhampton Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census WFL Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Complies Biographical Text Emma Sproson (nee Lloyd) was born in West Bromwich in 1867. She left school at 13 years of age to work in domestic service. The family moved to Daisy Bank, Bilston in 1875, where Emma took an interest in socialism and feminism and educated herself. She joined the Independent Labour Party (ILP) in Wolverhampton in 1895, where she met its secretary, Frank Sproson, a postman whom she married in 1896. In 1906, Frank invited Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst of the suffragette WSPU to Wolverhampton to speak, and Emma joined the WSPU the same year. Frank was fully supportive of Emma's Votes for Women activity. In February 1907, Emma took part in a suffragette march to Parliament Square, London, where more than 700 suffragettes attempted to force their way into the Houses of Parliament. Sixty-seven women were arrested, including Emma, and served 14 days in Holloway Prison. At that time she had two young children at home and a six month old baby so going to prison represented a huge sacrifice. She was arrested in a further raid on the House of Commons on 18 March 1907, along with (see) Elizabeth Price. On her prison experience she wrote: 'I measured my cell with my feet, and the shoes they gave me were too big and different sizes. My dress was a coarse grey linsey, covered with broad arrows… The bed was coarse, fibre mattress and pillow, placed on a plank 4” from the floor… Near the top of the thick iron door, such as you see in a large safe, was a space that converged to a glass-like bull’s eye. When I heard a click, I knew that a Warder was using it for observation… I did not sleep the first night.’ On her release she held a meeting in Wolverhampton, and toured around the Black Country arguing against women's low wages and poor working conditions. When there was a break within the WSPU in 1907, Emma joined the resulting breakaway society the Women's Freedom League (WFL) becoming Wolverhampton branch secretary and a member of its National committee by 1908 undertaking extensive countrywide speaking tours. She likely broke from the WSPU because of its split with the ILP. In 1911, she complied with the government census survey but by then she was also a member of the Women's Tax Resistance League and so was arrested and imprisoned in May that year for refusing to pay her dog license. She went on hunger strike in prison when she was not classed as a political prisoner. Her dog was sadly shot by the police. In 1912, and disillusioned by suffrage politics, she resigned from the WFL and afterwards took little interest in the movement, focusing instead upon improving social conditions. Emma also known as “Red Emma”, later became the first woman Councillor for Wolverhampton Borough Council when she was elected for Dunstall Ward in 1921 and was re-elected in 1924. Emma died in 1936. Contributed by Heidi McIntosh, Senior Archivist, Wolverhampton City Archives. Please note: Wolverhampton Archives is currently closed due to Covid 19 and so document access is restricted. However, we will be adding more images in relation to Emma Sproson including prison accounts and letters as soon as possible. Additional Sources: Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928 (London); Nicola Gould https://nicolagauld.wordpress.com/2015/02/23/emmas-prison-experience/ Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Emma Sproson Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(-239389.114013397 6909058.29375488) WFL https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/ee098aac0fdec040e1c080224cb9fd87.jpg a317e4c62f1525a1b7965b3ed94c8c1f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Source: Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic, 19 Dec 1931. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/7bc1d802b06cb20b295c73b5b37face1.jpg 3ec49489edf930fa9a2de6259aa5e938 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Emmeline and her husband Edward evaded but were recorded on the census by surname only at their nearby friend Charlotte Bardsley's Guesthouse at 'Snowden'. Source: The National Archives. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation None given. Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 60 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Married. Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 'Glenroy', now Sydenham Villas Road, Cheltenham Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census WFL Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Evades Biographical Text Emmeline Wilkins was married to a retired stockbroker, (see) Edward Wilkins, and they had two sons. They had lived in Cheltenham since the late 1880s and had founded the Vegetarian Society there in the early 1990s (possibly also the Anti-Vivisection Society). Emmeline appeared as the NUWSS representative in a 1907 delegation to the local MP but became a member of the WFL when it was set up in the town. She appeared on its platform a number of times, most notably at a rowdy meeting in the Town Hall in 1908 when the national leaders, Charlotte Despard and Teresa Billington-Greig, were attacked by heckling opponents. In 1911, both she and her husband were probably living at 'Glenroy' - now in Sydenham Villa's Road - but evaded the census and were listed by name only by the enumerator at a Food Reform Guesthouse (see image) down the road where they seemed to have spent periods of time, together with its proprietor (see) Charlotte Bardsley (also a WFL activist). Researcher/contributor: Sue Jones author of 'Votes for Women: Cheltenham and the Cotswolds' (The History Press, 2018). Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Emmeline Wilkins Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(-229888.74131610183 6781351.180098) WFL