7 10 286 https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/bc153fc6ef47899c92e7e748742d9844.jpg f71d2b31be9885405f2422f3a8d648f1 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 23 Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Bishops Farm, Lighthorne, Warwickshire, CV35 0BB 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 Clare Verney was the daughter of the honourable Walter Verney, Rector of Lighthorne and Vicar of Chesterton who died in 1912. She attended several Warwickshire CUWFA meetings aone and with her mother Elizabeth throughout 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 Clare Verney 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(-167153.0189680639 6834171.005306485) CUWFA https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/75a01a11b0df56d35ee93c8fa9d3088b.jpg 72a693bb73d59dd54628be3c079da801 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 Constance Andrews. Source: Ipswich Women's Festival Group. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/0ac3d0d7c406c474949d7cd40344c4a9.png 85c3700f0dd9ebf800ecf09af028a8eb 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 160 Norwich Road, Ipswich. Source: Goggle Maps, 2019. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/8202735b5f54c8e58c49a8917724b22c.jpg bf48c03124c232796d46bb6f4b610409 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 Constance and her sister Lilla 'evading' the 1911 census at 160 Norwich Road. Source: The National Archives. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/2dabfd79830b0da02d28fd6d535efb44.jpg f5b413f038d38d2b4232c8e17b85d278 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 mass evasion at the Old Museum Rooms organised by Constance (page 1). Source: The National Archives. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/7814ea2b68d8ea83e7c23e772942fe1d.jpg fda8fdd94efb74aeaa1be096c6c903eb 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 mass evasion at the Old Museum Rooms organized by Constance (page 2). Source: The National Archives. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/3c8bda290276982fe65b5254b6aa3921.png 6b21779bb64f5fc1be3375528985d26f 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 Newspaper report about Constance's release from prison. Source: The Vote, 3 June, 1911, p. 71. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/3ef48df233052f319b98259c9ac23848.jpg 6c65b3f99d5164c14d44692a666b3ea1 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 Constance in car with WFL leader Charlotte Despard on release from Ipswich prison. Source: www.joybounds.co.uk Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation WFL Organizer Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 47 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 160 Norwich Road, Ipswich. 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 Constance, a former music teacher, was instrumental in founding the Ipswich branch of the Women's Freedom League (WFL) in 1909. She was Honorary Secretary for the Ipswich branch and by 1911, she was also Honorary Organizer for the East Anglia area. The WFL played a central role in orchestrating the suffrage boycott of the government census survey in 1911, and Constance ensured that Ipswich played its part in the boycott. Constance evaded the census with her sister Lilla by sleeping not at Lilla's family home where they lived with Lilla's husband and sons, but at the Old Museum Rooms (by then a dance hall) in Arcade Street on the evening of the 2nd April when the census official called. Probably because Constance was so well known locally, the census official was aware that as suffragists, the females of the house were likely sleeping at another 'unknown' location writing his suspicions across the census form. Constance was responsible for organizing the mass evasion at the Old Museum Rooms which involved about 20 local people including the sisters servant who evaded with them, sleeping over there for the night (see census image attached). Shortly afterwards, Constance wrote a press report about the evasion at the the Old Museum Rooms - 'the storm centre' of the Ipswich movement. The night was a 'real joy' with various disguises worn in case of intruders, and ghost stories recited later in the evening (Suffolk Chronicle, 7 April, 1911). Later that year, Constance was arrested and spent a week in Ipswich prison for refusing to pay her dog licence (or a subsequent fine) as part of a wider suffragette ' no vote no tax' scheme. Risking imprisonment (as Constance had also done by evading the census) and being imprisoned, was a life changing decision for suffrage campaigners. Being classified as criminals potentially ruined their future lives and reputations. Thus, this sacrifice was publicly acknowledged by suffragette society's like the WFL. Upon Constance's release from Ipswich prison, the president and founder of the WFL Charlotte Despard was there to meet her along with crowds of well wishers from the town. Constance was then whisked away to a celebratory meal and reception. Her tireless work for the WFL kept Constance busy and in the following years she relinquished her role as Secretary of the Ipswich branch to her sister Lilla, so that she could travel up and down the country promoting the votes for women cause. Nevertheless, Constance found time in 1914 to visit home and tell her Ipswich friends about her travels. Ever active, Constance was also involved with the Trade Union and Labour Movements. Sources: Jill Liddington, Vanishing for the Vote: Suffrage, Citizenship and the Battle for the Census (Manchester: 2014); Joy Bounds at www.joybounds.co.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 Constance Andrews 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(126959.56163692831 6811908.737032267) WFL https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/1d7079fd4e01ff9c279ecfc2da711281.jpg cfd2994e9a727b54b65ab633adb69767 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 Nina Boyle. Source: The Women's Library, TWL 2009 02 47. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/db12f4be6f173773430444678f9ec394.jpg d2e20ae9afad461a5ad7ca34029fc7ab 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 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 46 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 Flat 6, Block 1, 4 Bessborough Street, Westminster, 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 Resists Biographical Text Constance Antonia better known as 'Nina' Boyle (1865–1943), was born in Bexley, Kent, on 21 December 1865. She lived in South Africa around the turn of the century, where she performed hospital duties during the South African War and worked as a journalist. Her activism for women’s rights started during this period, when she founded the Women's Enfranchisement League of Johannesburg. In 1911, she returned to Britain and joined the Women's Freedom League (WFL). She resisted the census in 1911 likely with 3 other women. Her (see) census form is defaced perhaps with the slightly exaggerated statement that the flat was '...filled with Census resisters. No Votes. No Census. Votes for Women'. The census official notes in red that a total of 5 women slept there that night, one of whom (Boyle's sister) took no part in the protest. In 1912, she became head of the WFL's political and militant department. Boyle was very active, she led numerous demonstrations and campaigns for the WFL. She wrote extensively for The Vote (the journal of the WFL). She was arrested on several occasions and imprisoned three times. She attempted to gain approval for women to be employed as special constables, but after it was refused, she founded the Women’s Volunteer Police (WVP) with Margaret Damer Dawson of the National Vigilance Association. The WVP represented a challenge to male control of the law—particularly in regard to sexual matters. In late 1916 Nina Boyle went to Macedonia and Serbia to perform war relief work. She received the Samaritan order of Serbia and the allied medal. After women over thirty obtained the vote in 1918, there were doubts about their capacity to stand for Parliament elections. In March 1918, Boyle attempted to stand as a WFL candidate in the Keighley by-election. Although her nomination was rejected because of a technical flaw, it was ruled that she could stand for election as a women. This acceptance of her candidature set the principle for other women to stand for election. During the 1920s and 1930s Boyle remained active in a broad range of women's organizations. She campaigned on behalf of the National Union of Women Teachers, the Women's Election Committee, the Open Door Council and organisations concerned with the welfare of women and children in developing countries. In 1920, Boyle published her novel Out of the Frying-Pan, followed by a string of adventure romance novels ending with Good Old Potts in 1934. Sources: M. Brodie, Boyle, Constance Antonina [Nina] (1865–1943), women's rights campaigner. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (May 25,2006, ). Jill Liddington, Vanishing for the Vote: Suffrage, Citizenship and the Battle for the Census, (Manchester: Manchester Uni Press, 2014). Contributed by: Oihane Etayo, 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 Constance Antonia 'Nina' Boyle 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(-14869.6123001324 6708315.2049665) WFL https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/294970b7762bb0b5be24883091d7ea1c.JPG b7e7f17857fbddf27df5a17c60610b71 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 Constance Cooke. Photo courtesy of Herefordshire Archives and Records Centre https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/0cc398624d250b3a193fe88a319422c2.JPG 75038fb58e51e73ed7443d73e63d146e 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 Hellens Manor. Photo Clare Wichbold https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/5f78e320c025d85a58859b8120349acc.jpg 9d3a6b4c7a9fb9501247c6674ded7270 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 Courtesy The National Archives https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/266284fa133e162b84ff0a5d313e7e38.jpg 7255fca9d76421ad24017cf2a8fffb60 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 Randall Cookery School group. Photo courtesy of Herefordshire Archives and Records Centre Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Social Reformer 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 11 Silverdale Road, Eastbourne 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 Complies Biographical Text The eldest daughter of Charles Radcliffe Cooke, anti-suffragist MP, Constance Chellingworth Radcliffe Cooke was born in London in 1877. When her father inherited Hellens Manor in Herefordshire the family moved there in 1881, and she took an active part in the women’s suffrage campaign in Herefordshire, Worcestershire, and London, from 1908 onwards. She was a member of the WSPU and was involved in a poster parade from Hereford Cathedral in November 1913 alongside (see) Reverend and Ethel Davis. She was a campaigner for public health improvements both in Herefordshire and the Isle of Wight, where she lived for a number of years, and was a member of the Labour Party, and later joined CND. Constance campaigned on environmental issues, wrote books, and was a prolific linguistics and local history researcher. In 1911, she complied with the census despite belonging to the WSPU who encouraged a census boycott, probably because she was working at Elsie Randall's cookery school in Eastbourne though she still managed to describe herself on her census return as a "social reformer". Constance died in 1963, leaving her remarkable collection of papers and photographs to the Herefordshire Archives. Researched and contributed by Herefordshire community fundraiser & author Clare Wichbold, MBE. Source: Herefordshire Archives and Records Centre, E69, personal papers of Constance Radcliffe Cooke. Also see Clare's blog 'These suffrage papers are to be given to Hereford Museum and Library' about Constance on our Suffrage Blogs & News page. 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 Constance Cooke 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(31325.861302320554 6578952.439176281) WSPU https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/301e3baba5241dd0f8a0c613fcd094c0.jpg fa5cbef69b8562c6121d398147159c9f 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 Lady Constance Lytton circa 1911. Courtesy The National Portrait Gallery. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/b815aa266a378bff92ea30a2c9f4e244.jpg 9cccddab798fc9b8bcbc2841a618e469 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 Pankhurst and Constance Lytton at Waterloo Station, c.1910. Courtesy of The Women's Library at LSE. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/bcecd23d9467700665a23ecc3080ce2c.jpg 4c455343b3e68792e1b54d507651e253 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 Letter from Constance Lytton to Miss Browne on her arrest following a deputation in 1909 (p.1). Courtesy The Women's Library at LSE. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/fb531e9cf8dddc38048305652abf5c1a.jpg 278b5c1cff64a52fd188f75bbdeb3268 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 Letter from Constance Lytton to Miss Browne on her arrest following a deputation in 1909 (p.2). Courtesy The Women's Library at LSE. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/d5240857fe6f31855f4eedfa491b77d3.jpg 532f60f504720b1c83eeb24ed2b3ead0 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 Lady Constance Lytton dressed as seamstress 'Jane Warton'. Image courtesy of The Museum of London. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/ff799cdafb3a6cc90ca59a1a4f736338.jpg 9ad9c44cca59d44a87ac4f1d730ed88b 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 1911 census form for Constance Lytton's London flat at 15 Somerset Terrace where she resisted. Courtesy The National Archives. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/7339e9ba7b23f93d5657f5db2878b9fe.jpg 56073ecb112edc0f77a2a795a2f08c07 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 Suffragettes Constance Lytton and Lesley Lawless with other women outside Bow Street Magistrates' Court, carrying suitcases, parcels, rugs, c. 1912. Courtesy The Women's Library at LSE. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/27841df39c7960190a3161ed7b861be8.jpg 5c6b4aeeb7aaff3cb89cd831e9eafbc0 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 Constance Lytton parading in the WSPU's From Prison to Citizenship Pageant, 1911. Courtesy The Women's Library at LSE. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/652d3dac9772dfe54b84f02b3ce1925f.jpg ca1fd28c7fb9f0843347c6c26a6407ea 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 Letter from Constance Lytton to Mrs Pankhurst asking that Miss Avery, a teacher at Knebworth school, be excused from joining the March 1912 window smashing campaign. Courtesy The National Archives. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/bdd2f8f07e871cfaa0bfc6e7996837f6.jpg aa7ac00e7ec8b672722b85386042d380 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 Constance Lytton 1910. Courtesy The Women's Library at LSE. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation None Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 42 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 15 Somerset Terrace, 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 Biographical Text Lady Constance Lytton (1869-1923) joined the WSPU in January 1909 and was a committed suffragette. She was imprisoned in Holloway prison for one month in February 1909 but was found to have a weak heart so began her sentence in the hospital wing, rather than the cells. During her sentence she carved the letter ‘V’ on her chest with a hairpin (with the intention of writing ‘Votes for Women’). She was arrested in October 1909 after throwing a stone at a car in Newcastle. Constance was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment and began a hunger strike. On her third day without eating, following a medical examination, her sentence was terminated, and she was released. Constance did not want the special privileges that she felt she had been given because of her family (her father had been Viceroy of India), so in January 1910 she travelled to a protest in Liverpool disguised as a seamstress named Jane Warton. She was arrested and sentenced by contrast to two weeks in the Third Division criminal class of prison. ‘Jane’ did not reveal her medical condition and went on hunger strike. She was force-fed eight times before her real identity was established and she was released. Following her release, she wrote a graphic account of her experiences for The Times and provided a report to the Home Office. The furore surrounding Constance's preferential treatment compared to lower class 'Jane' was embarrassing for the government and a publicity coup for the WSPU: though her treatment as 'Jane' took a serious toll on Constance's health. From June 1910 she was a paid organiser for the WSPU, earning £2 per week. She rented a flat near the Euston Road, where she lived at the time of the 1911 census and gave speeches around the country. She refused to give her details for the census, and they were completed by the registrar with an estimated age. After a stroke in the autumn of 1910, she became paralysed down one side, but subsequently recovered and carried on with speaking engagements. Constance’s last imprisonment was in November 1911 after she threw stones, breaking glass at a Post Office. She was sentenced to fourteen days in the First Division, but her fine was paid anonymously, and she was released, even though this was against normal suffragette policy. Another stroke in May 1912 meant that Constance moved back to Knebworth to live with her mother. She taught herself to write left-handed and wrote a book about her experiences called Prisons and Prisoners, which was published in March 1914. Constance did not take part in any more direct suffragette action but continued to hold the cause dear and was visited by many of her WSPU friends. During the First World War she worked on behalf of a range of different causes and sold many of her possessions so that she could give more money. Constance was delighted when some women were given the vote in 1918. She died in 1923, and a palm leaf in Suffragette colours was placed upon her casket by Emmeline Pethick Lawrence. For more about Constance’s life at Knebworth read my blog for Mapping Women’s Suffrage. Sources: B. Barnett-Sanders and E. Lenton (ed.) Suffrage Stories: Tales from Knebworth, Stevenage, Hitchin, and Letchworth (Stevenage: Stevenage Museum, 2019) P. Miles and J. Williams, An Uncommon Criminal (Knebworth: KHEPT, 1999) L. Jenkins, Lady Constance Lytton: Aristocrat, Suffragette, Martyr (London: Biteback, 2015). Contributed by Katherine Dunstan, Education Officer, Knebworth House Education and Preservation Trust www.knebworthhouse.com 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 Constance Lytton (Lady) 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(-14406.189260024557 6715117.602641573) WSPU https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/557c94af6b48188182a5779417b14a98.jpg 6316aa61feb41a5effcc90c6f636d04a 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 Missess Allen-Brown. Source: courtesy of Henfield Museum. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/d0b70f59eb1670add6aee66a376bfb9d.jpg 80002bd815be3cadbeb378aa13240aa8 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 Miss Allen (at the back) supervising work on frames. Source: courtesy of Henfield Museum. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/9aaf0fd70f6d035daf573d09adfbffa3.jpg ea4e3e68092a766eae4a20d5de162969 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 Miss Brown in a field of bell Jars. Source: courtesy of Henfield Museum. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/c567d920bf918cb8ab399d0e51ba0a1f.jpg 105583edd99d8e3d049dc1662d95bd5f 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 In front of Holmgarth. Source: courtesy of Henfield Museum. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/927666a5526b2c1947cedf8281e426dd.jpg c9967d7e0c06a5f179eafbce020d70ee 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 Votes for Women 31 Dec 1908. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/5db134fd88de4af5cb967f8fcd97ba3b.jpg 022267ed48de0509ac06f2e1aa8bb35d 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 Votes for Women 19 March 1909. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/8fa41ca4ed0f4903ca7b94e1e2d72300.jpg 6ec428b28510f1f2d4a3d2c244aecea3 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 Votes for Women 17 May 1909. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/294200d05abc48c0e2ad42cafaa4441a.jpg 51b7c2fe28248e528641b6842bb62307 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 Votes for Women 5 July 1912. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Horticulturists Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 44 & 55 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 Holmgarth, The Common, Henfield, West Sussex 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 Decima Allen (1869-1951) and Ada Brown (1856-1915) lived in Holmgarth, Henfield from about 1899. The house was owned by a relative of Ada Brown by marriage. By 1906 they were marketing the products of the Violet Farm they established there, referring to themselves as Misses Allen-Brown FRHS. They began by advertising boxes of freshly cut violets in the Morning Post in March 1906; in the autumn the magazines The Gentlewoman and The Queen promoted their soap, bath salts, perfume, and protective ‘motor lotion’. A year later their business was publicised as being world-famous and scented ‘novelties’ were proposed as Christmas gifts. From April 1908, when Votes for Women progressed from a monthly to weekly publication, Misses D and A. Allen-Brown are listed as contributors to WSPU funds. From August 1908, each week’s issue of the paper carried advertisements for their ‘preparations’. In September, a page headed ‘Progress of Women’ included an announcement of the founding of a French Horticultural School by ‘those two excellent friends of the WSPU, Misses Allen-Brown’. Training was to be conducted on up-to-date scientific principles and based on fashionable French methods. The two-year course would lead to a diploma, and endeavours would be made to place students in good positions in France or England. Misses Allen-Brown, by now major employers of women in Henfield, helped arrange a women’s suffrage meeting held on 11 July 1910 in the village Assembly Rooms. NUWSS organiser Barbara Duncan reported in their newspaper the Common Cause that she and Florence Basden, chair of the Brighton and Hove Women’s Franchise Society, ‘went to Henfield where Miss Mack (aka feminist playwright Margaret Macnamara) and the ladies of the Violet Nurseries had gathered a delightful audience’. Reverend CC Pridgeon, Vicar of nearby Steyning, was in the chair, with (see) Elizabeth Robins in support. It was as WSPU members, however, that Misses Allen-Brown refused to sign the 1911 Census: the Holmgarth page lists only the cook, housekeeper, and a housemaid. The Votes for Women newspaper reported the first WSPU meeting to take place in Henfield: on 27 November 1911. It was chaired by Elizabeth Robins and addressed by Isabel Seymour, a WSPU administrator, and ‘The platform was decorated by the ladies of the Violet Nurseries.’ In 1912 Henfield suffragists followed Elizabeth Robins in supporting Emmeline and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence when the couple were prosecuted for conspiracy in the WSPU’s campaign of violent destruction, even though they did not participate in this themselves. When the Government tried to recover some of the costs of window-smashing by auctioning the contents of the Pethick-Lawrence house in Dorking on 31 Oct 1912, much of its contents was purchased by friends and returned. The Misses Ada-Brown were among the women of the village who contributed to a collection made by Ada Baxter, wife of the Captain of the Henfield Fire Brigade, towards this purchase fund. Misses Allen-Brown oversaw the planting of the flower beds at Backsettown, a record of which was kept by Elizabeth Robins at the back of her Visitors Book. In 1913 they published The Violet Book, dedicated to ‘Our neighbour, Miss Elizabeth Robins’. Sources: Votes for Women, Common Cause, Brighton Gazette, The Gentlewoman, The Queen, Bystander, Tatler, with thanks to Alan Barwick, Henfield Museum. Contributed by independent researcher & writer France Stenlake. 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 Decima Allen & Ada Brown 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(-30058.266260833996 6608708.916645386) https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/c555ad4a4e7e597c5a0a7733e873882e.jpg c0bee7c340b8a6ee31ce0fd18a3e154b https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/ad06c06144e60d8f788e16156c03421c.jpg b9ec7e25029e09029df8f7f5a2617e79 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 31 Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 22 Howard Street, off Pellon Lane, Halifax HX1 5RJ Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Married Occupation Slave' 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 Complies Biographical Text Born in Keighley in 1979, Dinah’s mother was unable to sign the birth certificate, just marking it with a cross. Dinah, who had been a woollen weaver, married Charles Connelly, a stone mason. They lived in the congested terraced housing of Halifax’s industrial suburbs ~ in 1901 just off Queen’s Road, and by 1911 at 22 Howard Street, by Pellon Lane. So Dinah lived at the heart of Halifax’s nest of suffragettes. At New Year 1907, Dinah was among the 22 Halifax women who signed the ILP Manifesto to the WSPU. Then in February 1907, Dinah went down to London to take part in the WSPU’s Women’s Parliament; she was arrested ~ and sentenced to 14 days in prison. Dinah Connelly complied with the 1911 census, Charles signed the household schedule, and all the information is provided. However, a closer look at Dinah’s occupation reveals that it is given as ‘slave’ (the word is deleted, presumably by the census official). Why ‘slave’? It’s easy to see. In 1911, Dinah’s family consisted of herself, Charles (undoubtedly coming home with clothes covered in stone dust), and three sons, aged 9, 2 and 11 months. All five were squashed into a small 4-roomed terrace house. Domestic slavery indeed. Dinah's house is now demolished, but the photograph featured here is of similar houses that remain at the end of her street. One of Dinah’s younger children, Laura Mitchell, later became Mayor of Halifax ~ and has an impressive Laura Mitchell health centre named after her in the town centre. 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 Dinah Connelly 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(-208922.55915714244 7118699.646811421) WSPU https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/cfdb1ad83f8afe0511c3a03191c1dcab.jpg e78ec3adc22d1d0fb07c11f9829e68c7 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 37 Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Clive House, Warwick 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 Dora (born Vickers-Jones) married Dr. Frederick Harman Brown who worked for Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital before going into practice with Dr. William Fraser Annand in 1909. Dora was active on the charitable side of the Hospital committee and in its nursing institute. She joined the Coventry Women's Suffrage Society (the local branch of the law abiding NUWSS) and regularly attended its local meetings. When her husband retired in 1919, the couple moved to Newton Abbot, Devon. 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 Dora Harman Brown 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(-169024.81564203126 6872759.348969207) NUWSS https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/17e5cf2e085d7aa01a6e1b5d8b6263e7.jpg 10ef188059912c37dd8cc3a8043690de 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/489851ffb778e26f0d652b34f742cd5a.jpg 3f91f4c5935b82935ff3203176369f49 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 37 Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 48 Leam Terrace, Leamington Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Single Occupation Private means Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census CLWS Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Complies Biographical Text Dora was a member of the Church League for Women’s Suffrage (CLWS) in 1911. Later in 1913, she became its Honorary Secretary. She regularly attended CLWS meetings and fetes and in June 1911 travelled down to London with other local women and men to join the Women’s Coronation Procession. The procession was organised by suffrage societies to rival the official Coronation procession of George V from which women were excluded. Approximately 40,000 women from around 30 women’s suffrage societies participated, and the procession was seven miles long. The CLWS was a peaceful suffrage society and Dora wrote to the local press on several occasions eschewing militancy; emphasising to members of the Leamington public that not all suffrage campaigners were law breakers or violent! 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 Dora Seville 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(-169639.5938850703 6852220.63353451) CLWS https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/846a650388fb9d8ee0628da02f84dfb9.jpeg 740f4016602874bb16500c74919fe18b 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 Suffragists at Burgess Hill, 21 July 1913, photographed by (see) Douglas Miller. Source: Mid Sussex Times archive. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/510de0a929bd1af0e7eb304cfa9bf271.jpg 283dad7ddce8536ccc52ee18203ac300 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 Copy of Pemberley Shades by Dorothy Bonavia Hunt (1949). https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/0fd9e3954816812333bde62b9c640f55.jpg 3376996c0e744f0feeb57b7f01e7e9fb 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. 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 30 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, Park Road, Burgess Hill, West 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 Dorothy Bonavia Hunt came to live in Burgess Hill in 1905 when her father, Revd Henry Bonavia Hunt, took over as Vicar of St John the Evangelist after 30 years at St Paul’s, Kilburn. The family was musical and literary: Dorothy’s father had founded the Trinity College of Music; her mother, Madeline, was a much-published author. By 1905 Dorothy’s pianist sister Ethel, her elder by 10 years, was teaching music in India. Dorothy herself performed at local events as a soprano and violinist. In 1909 Dorothy organised a WSPU meeting held on 1 June in the Parish Hall. This was addressed by ‘polished platform speaker’ Helen Ogston who had begun work a few months earlier as the first WSPU paid organiser in Brighton after achieving notoriety in December 1908 for wielding a dog whip against stewards who tried to eject her from the Albert Hall for interrupting a speech to Women Liberals by Lloyd George. A report in Votes for Women of the Burgess Hill meeting claimed that copies of this paper were sold out. Three months later the Mid Sussex Times reported that Helen Ogston, having ‘made out so good a case for votes for women in such a brilliant speech’, had been invited to return to Burgess Hill, and delivered ‘another fine exposition of the subject’. This second meeting was chaired by Revd Baldwin Pinney, senior curate at St John’s. By August 1910, however, Dorothy had allied herself to the non-militants, and a Central Sussex Women’s Suffrage Society garden party hosted by Mrs Carey of Lea Copse, Burgess Hill, concluded with a display of Morris dancing by schoolgirls under Dorothy’s direction. In July 1913, when the Brighton Road contingent of the Great Suffrage Pilgrimage stopped for a meeting under the Reformers Tree in the centre of Burgess Hill, Mrs Bonavia Hunt was ’one of the numerous prominent Burgess Hillians present’. Dorothy ‘was among the cyclists who bore the suffragist colours’ and was also named in the report of the Pilgrims setting off from Cuckfield the next morning. By September 1913 Dorothy had become secretary of a new Burgess Hill branch of the Central Sussex Women’s Suffrage Society and had also joined the Mid Sussex branch of the Church League for Women’s Suffrage. In February 1914, she and her father attended a large meeting in the St John’s Institute addressed by ‘one of the foremost women speakers in the country’, Maude Royden, editor of Common Cause and a leading figure in the Church League for Women’s Suffrage. The annual report delivered at the Central Sussex Women’s Suffrage Society AGM in Cuckfield’s Queen’s Hall, in July 1914, where the guest speaker was Millicent Garrett Fawcett, made special mention of the first year’s activity of the Burgess Hill branch ‘under the able leadership of Miss Bonavia Hunt’. Dorothy is known now as the author of Pemberley Shades, a sequel to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, first published in 1949 while she was living with one of her two brothers, a vicar in Bedfordshire. Sources: Mid Sussex Times; Votes for Women; Common Cause. Contributed by independent writer and researcher Frances Stenlake. 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