6 10 286 https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/d1d5edb4b30eeb9c9193eb870deff132.jpg ef4d3a35762a489b773addddcce4643e 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 Charlotte Bardsley is centre. Source: Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic, 10 December 1910. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/cdba1e7241d829099652820cd55a1654.jpg 1644d811eb5b9d8c2aeaee713915dcaf 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 Charlotte advertised her guesthouse in the Cheltenham Chronicle and other local newspapers regularly from 1909-1916. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/b3977d4d489d1c8814d8de057b043c9a.jpg 397d63eae80fca652c6f72c5759b2835 Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Proprietress Food Reform guesthouse Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 49 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 'Snowdon' now 56 London 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 Resists Biographical Text Charlotte was born in Lancashire on the 3 June 1861, the daughter of a fairly successful corn miller and flour merchant. Until the census of 1901, she appeared to have lived at home, with no recorded occupation, but in 1901 she was resident at Anstey College as a cookery teacher. It is likely that in this 'hotbed' of feminism she imbibed her radical ideas. Her next appearance in the records is as the proprietress of a small Food Reform guesthouse in Cheltenham at 'Snowdon' in London Road. In the period before World War I, she belonged to the NUWSS and WFL in Cheltenham and strengthened the already strong vegetarian movement in the town. She hosted meetings at Snowdon and appeared in the December 1910 election campaign under the WFL banner. Miss Bardsley has been classed a census resister because she remained at her guesthouse where she sheltered local evaders (see) Dr. and Mrs Wilkins on census night - as recorded by the enumerator. However, it is possible Charlotte meant to evade but her details, and that of her guests, were given by 'helpful' neighbours as happened on occasion. For a short while, she seems to have had Mrs Norah Turbervill, another WFL supporter, as joint proprietor although the latter was not noted by the enumerator. Advertisements for Snowdon disappear after 1916 and Miss Bardsley reappears instead in Redhill, Surrey in the early 1920s and as a proprietress of another small Vegetarian guest-house. She was elected President of the new Vegetarian Society as well as being involved in theosophy, another movement strong among women's suffrage supporters in Cheltenham. Charlotte died in Reigate in 1940 where she was living with her sister Ruth. 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 Charlotte Bardsley 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(-229882.87477893787 6781068.886121119) WFL https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/b551bc9fe20323dad0a076a291817ed1.jpg 932b9a2355725fdb27050ed67da318a4 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 Cry of the Children. C. Hedley Charlton. Circa 1908. Courtesy The Women's Library, LSE. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/57f5e7340f7136c7163801a6fc1fdd99.jpg 38fba129b92e1c8988f08e670efe1e49 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 Greetings from the Alps. C. Hedley Charlton. Circa 1908/9. Courtesy The Women's Library, LSE. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/fce42e85791e933e9a7803aa4f2502a9.jpg dd4c13b7c903def2e804085a16e53808 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 Charlotte's 1911 census record. Courtesy: The National Archives. 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 44 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 103 Hampstead Way, London Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census ASL & NUWSS Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Complies Biographical Text Charlotte Charlton (sometimes known as Charlotte Hedley-Charlton) was born in 1866 and had seven siblings. Her mother and father, who was a coal merchant, were evidently prosperous in Charlotte’s younger years employing a governess and three servants. However, by the mid-1870s they had fallen on harder times and her father’s business was declared bankrupt. Consequently, it was important Charlotte found work and by 1891 she was teaching art at a boarding school in Saltburn, north Yorkshire. She later moved to London where between 1898-1910 she lived with suffragette Ethel Layton who in 1911 appeared in court with Marion Dunlop Wallace, for breaking two panes of glass at the Home Office. In 1911, Charlotte was lodging at 103 Hampstead Way and did not take part in the census boycott. She described herself as an ‘artist illustrator etc…magazines…etc…’ It was likely for career purposes that she signed her artwork ‘C. Hedley Charlton’ (Hedley being her father’s middle name) obscuring her gender and thus making her work more palatable to commissioning editors who were invariably men. By then, she was already a member and artist for the Artists Suffrage League formed in 1907, closely aligned with the law abiding NUWSS. Charlotte contributed to several jointly produced suffrage art works including illustrations for Cicely Hamilton’s ‘Beware! A Warning to Young Suffragists’ published in 1908 and the 'ABC of Politics for Women Politicians’ in 1909. She also produced individual post card designs for the ASL during these years including ‘The Cry of the Children’ and ‘I Pray for all Grown Ups’ available to view at The Women’s Library, LSE, London. The ASL archive there also holds several draft sketches for postcards designed by Charlotte. Whether she produced further suffrage designs for the ASL after 1909 is uncertain but she continued to independently advertise suffrage cards and calendars in the NUWSS newspaper The Common Cause. One design she submitted to the NUWSS during the First World War was considered too ‘wicked’ by them. In it three children are peering over a wall with the message: ‘When I an big I’ll buy a gun, And so will Babs & Sue. We’ll dead those Germans…every one…We’ll dead the Kaiser too’. Charlotte spent her last years living in Brighton close to one of her sisters. She died in 1945. Sources: Thanks to Elizabeth Crawford ‘Art & Suffrage: A Biographical Dictionary of Suffrage Artists’ (2018); The Women’s Library, LSE, London (ASL collection); The National Archives. 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 Charlotte Charlton 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(-21214.489315993444 6724088.177401561) NUWSS https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/fc1097e083e762a0c242d18837a54833.png 9a60bcb4a771f09c17fa35ca9d03616f 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 Charlotte Iliffe in 1937. Source: The National Portrait Gallery. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/dab415649913474725fb876d164cd75e.jpg 6d5cf7004166649f2672e965ae30ec63 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/183c8f2ec6415f4b5a93264c439dc3d1.png d7aa7f722b7337eea9b4efd86f4e813b 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 Charlotte & Edward Iliffe in 1937. Source: The National Portrait Gallery. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/8aee08102b619e411216af5a22070057.png 08e56f2a77705ce0c94831238a432f70 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 Edward speaks out in favour of votes for women on the same terms as men. Source: The Herald, 10 March, 1928, 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 34 Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census The Birches, Keresley nr. Coventry 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 Charlotte (born in Liverpool, Lancashire) married Edward Mauger Iliffe, director of the Iliffe publishing company and son of William Iliffe, the newspaper proprieter whose wife (see) Annette Iliffe was also active in the votes for women movement. Charlotte along with her mother in law Annette, was a member of the Coventry Women's Suffrage Society (CWSS) a local branch of the NUWSS. She was ever present at local suffrage meetings and with her husband Edward, was also active for the Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital (Edward was Chairman of the hospital board) and with the local branch of the NSPCC. During the First World War, Charlotte helped with the Serbian Refugee Fund while Edward worked for the Ministry of Munitions. He later became Conservative MP for Tamworth and Warwickshire and spoke in that role in the 1920s in support of extending votes or women to the same terms as men (finally achieved in 1928). He went on to become President of the British Chamber of Commerce; was knighted in 1922; and made a Lord in 1929. That year he resigned his seat as Conservative MP stating that his action was taken 'from a sense of public duty'. During those years, the couple lived at Allesley Hall, near Coventry, and remained active charity workers. They later moved to Berkshire in retirement. Charlotte (then Dowager Lady Iliffe) was widowed in 1960 and died at home at Yattendon Court, Berkshire in 1987 aged 95. The couple had a son and a daughter the former being made an Alderman of Coventry in 1969. 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 Charlotte Illiffe 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(-170540.074360867 6882132.079788771) NUWSS https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/ffe3cd0b05e0b3033655303a849c0529.jpg b7daaffb2f1d83cf3c206f346f9b8dfe 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 24 Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 'Penvorn', Manor Road, Coventry 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 Charlotte was born in Birmingham and by 1911 had married Percy Vernon - a director of the Coventry firm Messrs. Alfred Herbet Ltd one of the world's largest machine tool manufacturing businesses. Charlotte was active in the Coventry Women's Suffrage Society and sat on its committee in 1914. The couple had one daughter Diana, who sadly passed away suddenly in 1926 aged 15 after returning home from boarding school. Charlotte's husband died just two years later in 1928. 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 Charlotte Mary Vernon 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(-168265.74336607257 6873227.257451194) NUWSS https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/252d9d4cd21d2270b91e6a2399611f9e.jpg 86989abedd8b6680a7a34c9bde8928d7 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 Charlotte's face was splashed with sulphurated hydrogen thrown by youths at a suffrage meeting. Source: Express & Star, 4 March, 1908. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/bcd8b42ad3a8efe2b3651b34f8a78b55.jpg 8d440b21f83e7600a91d81d36382ddab 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 Charlotte's 1911 census form. Source: courtesy The National Archives. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation See below Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 52 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 107 Waterloo Road, Wolverhampton 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 The secretary of the Wolverhampton Women’s Suffrage Society, the local branch of the NUWSS, was a Charlotte Eliza Taylor (nee Butler), born in Rugby in 1859. She had married Frederick David Taylor in Stourbridge in 1882. In 1911, the couple were living at 107 Waterloo Road (now extensively redeveloped). While Charlotte did not follow the suffragette trend of spoiling the census return by being anonymous or refusing to be counted, in the entry for her trade or occupation was written “Housekeeper to above” (i.e. her husband), which had been crossed out, indicating that she was keen to highlight her equal role with her husband. Charlotte appeared in a newspaper report in 1908 (see image) about 'Rowdy Scenes' at a Wolverhampton suffrage meeting held at the Co-operative Hall in Stafford Street. Teresa Billington-Greig, one of the founders of the Women’s Freedom League (WFL) was the speaker and a group of young men at the rear of the room were laughing, jeering and shouting throughout. Mrs Billington-Greig, ignoring the commotion, carried on with her speech regardless, even highlighting the attitude of “green and callow youths who failed to understand the liberties which they inherited, and for which their fathers fought and died”. Following this statement, one of the young men threw a test-tube containing sulphurated hydrogen which hit Charlotte Taylor in the face, filling the air with a pungent sulphuric odour. Charlotte screamed out as 'a crimson stream' ran down the side of her face and she was escorted home. One of the stewards at the event, wrote to the local newspaper the Express & Star to complain about a lack of interference from the police, who did not assist in breaking up the hooligans. Contributed by: Heidi McIntosh, Senior Archivist, Wolverhampton Archives. 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 Charlotte Taylor 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(-237274.600286073 6908032.03173534) NUWSS https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/1dcf11452d850e5e7e4e8f52d3099d8e.jpg 1c69bae0dd46a9146e62b6c853c7a889 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 Cicely Corbett. Source: Schwimmer Lloyd Collection, New York Public Library. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/53fd0645b3430b69166f9bcbdb9fdfdc.jpg 71ac169a86ac74a7d7a581680c3f02a3 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 Cicely's occupation is 'Suffrage Lecturer' on the 1911 census form. Source: courtesy The National Archives. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Suffrage Lecturer Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 25 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 Woodgate, Danehill, 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 Cicely Corbett (later Corbett Fisher, 1885-1959) was the younger daughter of suffrage campaigners Marie and Charles Corbett, of Woodgate, Danehill, Sussex, and sister of (see) Margery Corbett Ashby. She became a practised stage performer through contributing songs to concerts at the Congregational Hall, built by veteran suffragist Louisa Martindale, in nearby Horsted Keynes. After graduating from Somerville College, Oxford, in 1907, and as secretary of her mother’s Forward Suffrage Union in the Women’s Liberal Association, Cicely became much in demand as a speaker all over the country, both to explain the Forward Suffrage Union to WLA branches and to talk on behalf of the NUWSS. In 1909, she took the stage in Cardiff while friend (see) Helga Gill, a Norwegian suffragist, was spending a month as NUWSS organiser there, and joined in the NUWSS Scottish Highlands Campaign, chairing a meeting at Kingussie. In Sussex that year she spoke to the Haywards Heath and Lindfield Women Liberals Association and to the Brighton and Hove Women’s Franchise Society. Cicely participated in Men’s League for Women’s Suffrage (MLWS) rallies in Trafalgar Square and was regularly paired with a MLWS speaker, for example Laurence Housman, to speak at open-air meetings throughout Greater London. In 1909, the International Women’s Franchise Club was formed, under the auspices of the/MLWS, with Cicely its ‘indefatigable’ secretary. Cicely also spoke in company with Millicent Garrett Fawcett, on one occasion singing the suffrage version of Hope and Glory. Speaking tours took her to Ireland in 1911 and again, with Helga Gill, in 1912. She describes her occupation on the 1911 census as (see) ‘Suffrage lecturer’. Having first gone to Hungary in 1910 to help organise suffrage groups there, she returned, as the recently-married Cecily Corbett Fisher, for the IWSA Congress in Budapest in June 1913 where, as ‘a great favourite’, she drew huge audiences. In London, Cicely was a member of the executive committee of the East St Pancras NUWSS, and on the general committee of the Actresses’ Franchise League. She did not neglect Sussex, however, speaking at meetings at Arundel, the tiny village of Slaugham, Rotherfield, and Uckfield, as well as at Horsted Keynes and Danehill. Reflecting the Corbett family’s commitment to disarmament, Cicely reported on the first Peace Study Conference, in Amsterdam, held following the decision taken at the 1926 Conference of the International Alliance for Suffrage and Equal Citizenship to study ‘Peace questions’. She departed from family tradition in becoming ‘an ardent supporter of the Labour movement’: in November 1928, as secretary of the Advisory Committee on Finance and Commerce for the National Labour Party, she addressed a Cuckfield Labour Party meeting in the Queen’s Hall on ‘Disarmament and Peace’. In September 1933, at an East Grinstead Labour Party Fete and Rally in Elm Hall garden, she chaired a talk by ‘Manny’ Shinwell. The subject of a talk by Cicely at the Danehill Women’s Institute in March 1935 was ‘Current Events’, and in 1936 she urged both the Danehill and the Horsted Keynes WI to join the League of Nations Union. ‘As responsible citizens they should not only look upon the light and pleasant side of life.’ Contributed by independent researcher and writer, Frances Stenlake. Sources: Mid Sussex Times; Uckfield Weekly; Irish Citizen; Women’s Franchise; Common Cause. 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 Cicely Corbett 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(363.01285942633336 6628053.466187398) NUWSS https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/0c82740cc99a597e0907c46dcf4a03f2.jpg d0906555e46a5cea57b34152195c2f55 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: Windows on Warwickshire, Heritage and Culture, WCC. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/eae21a3e19afc8968f7d4371149679f5.jpg 35296f27af7f73152e0e352e84714307 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 21 Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Walton Hall, Wellesbourne, Warwickshire, CV35 9HU Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Single 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 The 'Misses Mordaunt' referring to Cicely and her sisters, attended a number of local 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. 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 Cicely Mordaunt 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(-176404.594049394 6830708.114043705) CUWFA https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/b7e3f77a4a9acff9b0d0f1f1d893251b.jpeg f26848cb07986df293c79a52d2a3a74e 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 Cicely in later life. Source: Courtesy & kind permission of Andrew Starr https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/fca290bde0b36f9e4f858525530fd7a7.jpeg a78e745070d4b9fa401261686a9d7589 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 Cicely & husband Ernest with their daughter Cicely Jr. Source: courtesy & kind permission of Andrew Starr. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/14f8355a33a1dfded8c8186b6d38870f.jpg a69d92a5d4dc42633f40e01f1c607de3 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 return where Cicely was living with her father - 'Daughter a Suffragette'. Source: courtesy The National Archives. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Teacher 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 20 Mary Road, Stechford, Birmingham 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 Cicely Neale (1879-1970) later Lucas, fulfilled a long-held ambition to become an educator of girls. Born in 1879 to the headmaster of Westwood Heath school in Warwickshire, her position as the only girl in a family of boys – “an unpaid skivvy” – made her only too aware of women’s position in society as a whole. By the age of 26 she was schoolmistress in a girls’ school in Birmingham. Cicely supplemented her income by teaching needlework to women at evening classes. It was here, in a class entitled “How to make a shirt for my husband”, that she first heard talk of the suffrage movement. In 1905, she joined the WSPU, attending and speaking at events held in Birmingham and London. In later life, she reflected: ‘If a crowd assembled accident, political, noted personage, royalty, roughs, etc., etc., I joined it and worked through to the opposite end and I knew my subject well. I possessed the schoolmistress' voice a carrying, rather than a shouting one, and a dominating tone, and was accustomed to being stared at, etc., etc. I could mount and descend from goods' wagons and my small height would save many a staggering blow. These were some activities I could do and did’. She was aware that she needed to protect her work in education, writing: ‘I was a state schoolmistress so no limelight and no absence from work! No press reports! No medical support reports for injuries inflicted or strained nerves!”. However, she collected the stones that were thrown at her, calling them her “jewels”. Some of these, along with her WSPU sash and satchel are now in the collection of the Warwick Museum. In 1911, she was living with her father in the house she had bought in Stechford, Birmingham. She appears to have evaded the 1911 census, as “Daughter is a suffragette” is written across the form after her father’s entry. Whether Cicely or her father wrote this gesture of defiance is unclear, but it is possible that he shared his daughter’s values. It is interesting to note that the census return for next-door’s house, later occupied by Cicely and her husband, is simply a blank form with one word written on it: “Suffragettes” – perhaps pointing to a group evasion? Cicely married Ernest Lucas in 1912. The couple taught in Paris, Cicely working in the new Berlitz language school until the threat of war forced her and their young daughter to undertake a difficult and dangerous journey back to her family in Westwood Heath. Cicely commenced supply teaching to support herself. When Ernest returned after the war, the couple settled in Claverdon, and Cicely became headmistress of a girls’ school in Solihull. In later life, Cicely became a local newspaper correspondent and a parish councillor, fiercely guarding rights of way in the parish. She also continued teaching children who needed extra support outside the classroom. Her mental faculties remained sharp, and she was active in public life up until her death in 1970 at the age of 91. Sources: Memoir of Cicely Lucas (unpublished); www.ourwarwickshire.org.uk/content/article/cicely-lucas-early-life-an-interest-in-womens-suffrage; thanks to Andrew Starr (Cicely’s great-grandson) and historian Christine Cluley for their assistance. Contributed by Jill Kashi, Westwood Heath History Society. 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 Cicely Neale (later Lucas) Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant |3|0.0000000|0.0000000|osm POINT(-202207.0682597299 6887964.922751988) WSPU Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Shorthand typist for a manufacturer Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 28 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 10 Clifton Street, Wolverhampton 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 Clara was born in Wolverhampton in 1883, the daughter of Dominic and Mary Clara Dilger immigrants from Baden in Germany. She worked as a shorthand typist for a manufacturer in 1911 and was like her sisters Lucy and Maud, a member of the Wolverhampton branch of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies. The “Misses Dilger” were actively involved in collecting subscriptions and delivering notices in the district of Tettenhall Road so it looks as if all three sisters acted together. The Society’s annual report 1913 – 1914 also includes an account of a play 'The Better Half' produced in 1914 by a Miss Dilger (see Lucy Dilger for a fuller account) although which one of the sisters produced it is unclear. Either way it was a success, with the characters 'excellently portrayed' and substantial funds raised for the society from those who attended. Contributed by Heidi McIntosh, Senior Archivist, Wolverhampton Archives. 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 Clara Dilger 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(-238035.802964012 6906423.26349089) NUWSS https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/4dcea5b830c6e93c6570fd32cbdf59ba.png 4a2549861d890b0ad508783b24ccce80 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 Mapdata ©2017Google streetview https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/cd14fa34718797788976985bc45bcab1.jpg 5b057931f61c5cdbc456963d0620392c https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/6de21d61ab3a497e60964eea5372583a.jpg c2043567b21ff673d7dfe1429702aa7d 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: Evening Dispatch, Friday 7th June, 1940, p. 3. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/b095181bf5283686051e489fbfff7daa.png 0d05e41160d364b32715aa139efacf20 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: Leamington Spa Courier, 1908. 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 47 Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 13 Northumberland Road, Leamington Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Married Occupation None 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 NUWSS Warwick and Leamington Branch Chairman. Clara was born in 1864 and lived here at 13 Northumberland Road with her husband Joseph Alfred Hill, their two children Robert and Katherine, and two servants. Clara was already active in the Leamington and Warwick branch of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) by 1908 and Chairman by 1911. She wrote regularly to the local press responding swiftly to letters appearing therein that she took exception to – Clara was certainly not one to leave things untackled (see image below). By 1912, Clara is referred to as the branch’s Honorary Secretary. Clara likely went on to become a senior magistrate locally (see below). Researcher: Tara Morton. 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 Clara Hill 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(-171466.9144581366 6853858.2613865575) NUWSS