16 10 286 https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/01b1f9041dd8e65320f0253c2fbf8048.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: Courtesy of the National Archives. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Private means Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 51 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 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 Frances Stirling and her daughter (see) Elvira Stirling were supporters of the WSPU from 1911 when a local branch was set up by Ada Flatman. Frances gave 1 gn. to their funds in the year 1911-12 and took part in the boycott of the government census that year along with her daughter Elvira. Frances declares that the census form 'is filled in through the magnanimity of a suffragette' in the hope that just legislation for women will soon be forthcoming - qualifying the two women as census resisters (see image). In common with a number of local supporters, Frances Stirling later joined the CUWFA and in 1912 signed the presentation to the Conservative MP under that organisation's heading. It is not known whether this was because she became disillusioned with WSPU tactics or whether she maintained dual allegiance. Frances was Canadian and four of her five living children with her British born husband were born there. In 1913, the whole family returned to Canada. 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 Frances 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/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/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 https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/ddc798d6688c79bf7def7d38441e31e5.jpg 461851c697f1db2c2c434ab8c1e8f65c 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 Lilian's Holloway Prison badge. Source: ebay. 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 31 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 Mostyn Villas, Hales Road (now 29 King's 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 Lilian Borovikovski(y) (nee Prust) was a member of the WFL and was Cheltenham's first women's suffrage prisoner. In February 1909, she was arrested with seven others in a 'raid on the Commons', was charged with obstructing the police and declined to be bound over or pay sureties. She was sentenced to one month in Holloway prison but was released after two weeks. It is unclear whether this was because she went on hunger-strike. On her return to Cheltenham, the WFL branch presented her with a Holloway badge and two books. In 1912, she became Honorary Secretary of the branch. At the age of 22, Lilian Prust had married Sergei Alexandrovitch Borovikovsky. In the marriage register, he was described as a 'Noble Minister of Finance' at St. Petersburg and his father was a 'senator'. A son Sergei was born in 1904. Lilian's arrival in Cheltenham in March 1911 from a trip to Russia is recorded but she never seems to have lived there for any length of time and it is not known how she met her husband. As she does not appear on the census in 1911 and yet was in England, it is assumed that she evaded. She died in Gloucester Mental Hospital in 1926, by then a widow. Researcher/writer 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 Lilian Borovikovski (Madame) 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(-229364.50443818205 6781612.431197136) WFL https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/196f466bb9a6124714dc1f6c39f8d060.jpg 62e3b49aeeef7fabacb7712540c4e4d3 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 Florence Earengey and her daughter. Source: Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic, 3 December 1910. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/45f1aa4ca819b55a9b587397d943bb4f.jpg e84c8af4bbaa04e4f6f016198043ea2e 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 Occupation Not given Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 34 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 Ashley Rise, Battledown, 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 Born How, Florence was the daughter of John How, a wealthy grocer and tea dealer. She was educated at the North London Collegiate School and matriculated with a Univerity of London B.A. She married a local Cheltenham solicitor, William Earengey in 1899 and they had one daughter, Oenone. Initially a supporter of the NUWSS, she was then a member of the short-lived Cheltenham WSPU and in 1907 was its representative to the local MP. But when her sister, (see) Edith How-Martyn, led the national breakaway from the Pankhursts' grip on the WSPU and was one of the founders of the WFL, Florence followed suit. From 1908 she led the local branch which became a small but tightly-knit group. A woman with a 'bubbling electric personality' and 'magnetism and drive' according to her grandson, she inspired much admiration. She was at the forefront of the Cheltenham census boycott, her husband having advised the national WFL and her sister on the legalities involved. Both she and her daughter evaded the census, probably with her devoted domestic servant Rose. Her husband wrote a statement on the census return to indicate their absence. He had always been an active supporter of the cause and became President of nearby Winchcombe NUWSS. Researcher/writer 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 Florence Earengey 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(-228121.44421246296 6780865.14052243) WFL https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/2ab0b162f76e57af70623fbc562e7a68.JPG 3d467ef391546b79d32ce9775ae097da 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, 29 April 1911. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Not given. Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 64 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 Sandford Lawn (now 105-7) Bath Road, Cheltenham. 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 Evades Biographical Text Mrs Swiney was the mainstay of Cheltenham's NUWSS being President from its re-founding in 1896 throughout its existence. She appeared on the platforms of the local WSPU, to which she contributed money in its early years, and the WFL and was not opposed to law-breaking. This is evidenced by her census evasion in 1911 in protest at women not having the parliamentary vote. She was a respected speaker and campaigner, prepared to speak in outdoor venues and outlying villages as well as in the Town Hall for example. In 1913, she was assaulted while speaking to a crowd gathered for the arrival of the Pilgrimage in Cheltenham but, undeterred, she continued the next day to Cirencester where there was a similar attack and she had to take refuge in a nearby village. Before her marriage to Major General John Swiney, she was an aspiring painter. Four of her six children were born in India where she had also been born but the family settled in Cheltenham in the late 1870s. She was a supporter of the Eugenics Society, the Ethical movement and the Theosophical Society and was Vice-Chairman of the local Food and Health Reform Society. Researcher/writer 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 Rosa Frances Emily Swiney 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(-231341.77236532603 6780515.02392553) NUWSS https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/dbfff829480660dcc09bdfcdad884da1.png 00a270a758b5bdcf914c720fb0dc3dc6 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 Hilda's warrior-like Joan of Arc design for the later WSPU newspaper The Suffragette. Source: The Victoria and Albert Museum (E.648-1972). https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/4e67183a8c47a1197cf0eff74d86daa2.png 39704eed22a394c1ccbea234646ae42d 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 Hilda Dallas WSPU Christmas card design, 1911. Source: Museum of London (50.82/853). https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/c4ff7eca84d03cc827df60500ce63fee.jpg b2987bd2f921520d468a9eded5e9e192 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 Hilda's designs like this one often featured in the WSPU's newspaper Votes for Women. Source: Votes for Women 2 August, 1912. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/2603d4383cb88e32b3d59a55b6f02ff6.png da5851ecf8d7c3eca7d2bbb5858a6ba2 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 late 1920's costume design by Hilda for a stage play. Source: Victoria and Albert Museum (s.558-1987). Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Artist Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 33 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 35 St George's Mansions, Red Lion Square, Holborn, 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 Hilda Mary Dallas was born in Japan in 1878 to British parents and had two surviving siblings – a sister Irene and brother William. Her father Charles taught English in Japan and was renowned as an excellent linguist. Exactly when Hilda returned to England is not entirely clear but by 1901/2 she was enrolled in classes at the Slade School of Art in London. There is nothing to suggest she ever rented a studio and so, like many women artists, likely worked from home. Her commercial portfolio is scant, but she did hold numerous exhibitions with the Allied Artists Association and later with the Society of Women Artists. However, it was in 1909 when her sister Irene was imprisoned for trying to speak with the prime minister, that the two sisters became involved with the WSPU. Hilda who was described as ‘a handsome fair-haired girl’ became the WSPU organizer for South St Pancras and also lent her artistic skills to the WSPU. She designed two striking WSPU posters between 1910 and 1912 and in 1911 produced a WSPU Christmas card (see image). That same year, when the government census survey was taken, the Hilda and her sister were absent from their flat at 35 St George’s Mansions and so, as they are not recorded anywhere else, they were likely participating in the WSPU boycott of the 1911 census by evading. The area where the mansions were has been substantially redeveloped. The following year when there was a split within the WSPU which saw the Pankhursts launch a new newspaper called The Suffragette, Hilda produced a poster for it. The design depicted a Joan of Arc warrior-like figure holding a pennant with WSPU written across it (see images) and was used on other WSPU items such as badges and postcards. During the First World War, Hilda likely became a pacifist and a Christian Scientist. She also turned her hand to stage set and costume design one of which is held at the Victoria and Albert Museum (see images). Hilda and her sister Irene lived together in London for the remainder of their lives until Hilda’s death in 1958. Source: Elizabeth Crawford, Art and Suffrage: A Biographical Dictionary of Suffrage Artists (Francis Boutle, 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 Hilda Dallas 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(-13196.491485691522 6713609.149184717) WSPU https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/e57e96576c514a5d4f63dab007957cc2.png ca37c9268a3ab950eaa1392eb1c58a5f 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: Southwark Local History Library and Archive, Wellcome Images. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/5f883ab178c6497608b9ce1320b7d558.jpg 2be7e333f11356838e9fc6e146e13e73 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/9b6ec2d1d2a90deda1c469992957c829.png f30e0dee4364031c2475e43f7d22aa3f 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 Bermondsey Settlement circa 1903 (Women's Houses for residents). Source: Harvard Library, HOLLIS HUAM5899soc. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/efe730179db9561e7868db1c0be21b67.png ef0f954f8413954a1fe0691f0a9c9509 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 Ada's statue on the docks. Source: Lynn Morris. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Social Worker/Politician/Pioneer of Ethical Socialism Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 44 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 5 Stork's Road, Bermondsey, London. 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 Ada was born into a well to do Methodist farming family in Raunds, Northamptonshire in 1866. A champion of ethical socialism, she left the comfort of Raunds as a young woman to work in the slums of St. Pancras as a Sister of the People to improve the lives of working women and their families. She later transferred to the Bermondsey Settlement where she ran several Working Girls Clubs and other community initiatives for the poor. It was there that she met her husband Alfred a medical doctor and the two married in 1900. Ada aligned herself with the radical wing of the Liberal Party, but she left in 1906 when it failed to honour its promises on votes for women, joining the Independent Labour Party (ILP) instead. She became deeply involved in the work of the ILP, a party that organised emancipation in the factories and on the streets. She was enthused by the ‘real business’ of ‘practical socialism’ and in that same year helped found and lead the Women’s Labour League. When it formed a year later in 1907, Ada supported the Women’s Freedom League (WFL) a Votes for women society led by her friend and fellow poverty campaigner Charlotte Despard. Ada eschewed the more violent tactics of Mrs Pankhurst’s WSPU. In 1909, Ada became the first woman Councillor in London, and with husband Alfred, she helped lead the ‘Bermondsey Uprising’ in 1911 when the working population of Bermondsey went on strike for better working conditions. Ada’s recruitment of 14,000 local women into the National Federation of Women Workers led by Mary Macarthur was instrumental. Ada did not take part in the suffrage boycott of the census that was also organised in 1911 to protest at women not having the vote and endorsed by the WFL. The reasons are unclear why she complied, but many women like Ada who campaigned for better living conditions in poor areas believed women should fill in the census because its details helped reveal the true state of overcrowding and infant deaths for example. The couples census form also reveals the tragic loss of their own daughter Joyce to scarlet fever. Interestingly, Ada's husband Alfred lists Ada on the census as simply a ‘housewife’ - yet she was so much more. Ada also became the first woman Mayor in London in 1922. As Mayor of Bermondsey, she steadfastly refused to wear the mayoral regalia, nor acknowledge Royal ceremonial occasions. Neither would she fly the Union Jack on Bermondsey Town Hall; instead, she chose to fly the red flag of socialism, emblazoned with the Bermondsey heraldic symbol. Ada believed strongly and campaigned throughout her life for the development of co-operatives, green spaces, universal suffrage, free school meals, free national health service, slum-clearance and humane working conditions. During her time in office, she planted thousands of trees in Bermondsey to improve the air quality, developed green spaces, planted municipal flower beds, had well-designed social housing built, communal laundries, clinics, swimming pools and a solarium. As pacifists, she and Alfred turned to Quakerism and both passionately spoke out against WW1 and then WW2, which they saw as an inevitable consequence of the injustices of the Versailles Treaty towards Germany. Ada is only the 15th woman in London to be accorded a statue. Her figure (as part of Dr Salter’s Daydream group sculpture, situated by the Thames in Bermondsey) marks her work as a woman trade unionist, a woman environmentalist, a Quaker, and a woman politician. Contributed by: Lynn Morris, playwright and performer inspired by Ada's story (www.journeymentheatre.com) Sources and further reading: Ada Salter: Pioneer of Ethical Socialism by Graham Taylor (Lawrence and Wishart 2016) Under Salter Lectures, there is a full transcript of Lynn Morris’s one woman play about the life of Ada Salter called ‘Red Flag Over Bermondsey’ at https://quakersocialists.org.uk/ 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 Ada Salter 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(-7163.520551040778 6709422.736140364) WFL https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/8e19a477defd41ab6b2242d85d62ed1e.jpg 9dac641560e88022c2dd360da2f55d72 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 Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 14 Gomm Road, Rotherhithe, Bermondsey Occupation Probably Social worker at Bermondsey Settlement 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 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 Resists Biographical Text Miss Bowers was likely a social worker at the Bermondsey Settlement in 1911. She 'resisted' the government's census survey that year as part of a boycott organised by suffrage societies prepared to break the law like the Women's Freedom League (WFL) and the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in protest at women's exclusion from the parliamentary vote. It's likely Miss Bowers colluded in the census protest with fellow Settlement workers living nearby at 63 Union Road, as their defiant messages and hers 'Not filled in as protest against a non representative Government' are uncannily similar (see census image). She is currently ascribed circumspectly on our map to the WFL along with her fellow 'conspirators'. Do you know anything about Miss Bowers? Could you find more? If so please contact us. 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 Miss Bowers 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(5954.190131027311 6709184.070968044) WFL https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/c720b379e8daad323bba9b61b72e4598.jpg 2741743a05ae0a705c876667de4e69e3 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 Maria evaded the 1911 census and so her form for 63 Union Road is blank - and yet it speaks volumes. Source: The National Archives. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/c251c5d1756b312909e4ca2ed81fde55.png 95c0fd0a8a511654e14c7b1a042a9ad4 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 Sketch map c. 1903 of how to get to the Bermondsey Settlement in Farncombe Street where Maria and her fellow residents worked. Source: Harvard Library, HOLLIS HUAM5836soc. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/105438f583acc7810dacda300589c7d4.png bee4be3b44ada080f8bd9cf8afadbc6a 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 Maria's death in 1938 was declared an open verdict. Source: The West London Observer, 11 March, 1938. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 63 Union Road, Rotherhithe, Bermondsey Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Evades Occupation Social Worker Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 45 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 WFL? Biographical Text Maria was born in 1866 in London - the same year that the first nationally organised petition for female suffrage was handed to parliament by Liberal M.P John Stuart Mill. By 1901, Maria was living in Kent with her sister Edith. The two employed three servants and described themselves as living ‘on own means’ and so were likely in receipt of an annuity from their father, a wealthy merchant. Three years later in 1904, we find Maria working to help those in poverty at the Bermondsey Settlement and occupying a property in Rotherhithe rented in relation to her activities there. This property rental allowed Maria, with fellow Settlement worker (see) Anna Martin, to claim for and successfully win the right to be listed on the municipal voters register that year, despite opposition in court from a local Conservative M.P. By 1911, women’s right to vote was important enough to Maria to take part in the illegal boycott of the government census organised by suffrage societies like the Women's Freedom League (WFL) and the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in protest at women’s exclusion from the franchise. She was then living at 63 Union Road and performed her protest together with fellow residents Anna Martin and Miss Britten. Maria chose to ‘evade’ the census, leaving her form completely blank (see images). However, she did write on the cover, ‘I refuse to fill up form as a protest against a non-representative Government’. We have supposed for the moment on our map, that she was a supporter of the WFL due to her participation in the boycott and the likely societal sympathies of her fellow residents and settlement workers. The following year in 1912, Maria donated £1 in response to an appeal to raise funds for the children of families struggling as a result of a transport workers strike, via the socialist newspaper the Daily Herald, publicly supported by the WFL. We know little else about Maria at present, other than she died in 1938 aged 72 at her later home in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, which she shared with sister Edith. An open verdict was declared on her death which was ascribed to a 60ft fall from a balcony at her home and was suggested by her sister to have been suicide. A brief obituary about Maria refers to her love of painting and her work at the Bermondsey Settlement for which she was clearly well remembered. Can you tell us more about Maria’s life? If so, please contact us. Researcher: 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 Maria White Frank 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(-6518.123539358456 6709999.205369114) WFL