8 10 286 https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/b42539e2f1b7142b6d827d4fc3ce605e.jpg fb69eb15d1d9d6dc3990535ae52b3a47 https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/70510680665e5bc45802d30b9b21741c.jpg cb4a476cccffe325190fd55f5e2f148c 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 29 Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 4 Mill's Buildings, Knightsbridge, London SW1X 7LJ Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Unmarried Occupation Art Student 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 Marjorie Hamilton was born in Derbyshire, the daughter of one of the partners in a local bank. After her father's death, Marjorie, her mother, and sister moved to Canada c. 1906. However by 1911 Marjorie had returned to England and, now an art student, was living in a boarding house in what was then a poor part of Knightsbridge. Although she had complied with the census, she was a member of the WSPU and was commissioned by them to produce the attractive flyer that advertised the suffrage Coronation Procession of 17 June. She also produced front-page cartoons for the 9 June and 8 September 1911 issues of the WSPU’s paper, Votes for Women. Marjorie Hamilton continued to work as an artist but eventually returned to Canada where, having married in 1926, she remained for the rest of her life 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 Marjorie Hamilton 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(-17934.742117831356 6710593.875593986) WSPU https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/a8396c68db783173f832dc41cec17fee.png 64ed061742b076e749adc50627b37dba 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 Selina Cooper 1890 (copyright LSE) https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/c781964954496ba2369bac1de02237ea.jpg eb2872be68d3ff8fafe7250ebd216a38 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 1901 Petition. Permission of the Parliament Archives (ref: HC/CL/JO/6/797) https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/69d29d3c705ff6b1c42f49465dbf8dd8.jpg 125aff8403ab769c2a153a27d767d1f1 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 Clitheroe Women's Suffrage Society, 1911. Selena Cooper is centre left. Lancashire Records Office https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/545e3fce44a8598415db3af9db686033.JPG 29c17649c341dc8ded9aea2b9e24cc12 https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/a136a9b30bb6d6c7e6f844c9b4d882cf.jpg 6f6ba1ea4a21489f9a2ae093b015f9b1 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 Liverpool Women's Suffrage Society, Kirkdale by-election, 1910. Selina Cooper is seated on right. Lancashire Records Office. 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 43 Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 59 St Mary's Street, Nelson, Lancashire, BB9 7AY Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Married Occupation NUWSS organizer & Lecturer 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 Selina Cooper (1864-1946) at the age of 11 became a half-timer in a Lancashire cotton mill, working full-time from her thirteenth birthday. In 1896 she married Robert Cooper, a cotton weaver. Their son, John Ruskin, died as a baby; their daughter Mary was born in 1900; and the family moved into 59 St Mary’s Street, Nelson ~ where all three lived for the rest of their lives. Nelson was a hotbed of socialism, and the Coopers were drawn into the Independent Labour Party (ILP). Selina gained public speaking experience through the Women’s Cooperative Guild, and soon was collecting women cotton workers’ signatures on a suffrage petition ~ and in 1901 she accompanied the 29,359-signature petition down to Westminster. Selina was elected a Poor Law Guardian; in 1903 helped launch the Lancashire Women Textile Workers’ Representation Committee; and in 1906 organized the Nelson Suffrage Society which met in the Coopers’ small front room. By 1911, Selina Cooper had been employed as a NUWSS organizer for five years; an excellent public speaker, she travelled round the country, supporting pro-suffrage candidates ~ like young Bertrand Russell. In June 1911, she organized the local suffragist group, now called the Clitheroe Women’s Suffrage Society, on a special train down to London for the Coronation Procession (see image, taken on Nelson Station). Then, given the betrayal by Asquith’s Liberal Government, the NUWSS made an election alliance with the Labour Party; and from 1912, Selina Cooper was heavily in demand as a speaker, travelling the country to support Labour candidates at by-elections. From 1914, Selina Cooper, like others in the ILP, opposed the war and supported conscientious objectors. In 1924 she was appointed a JP; and in 1934 she joined a small deputation to Nazi Germany to visit four women prisoners. Selina Cooper died aged 81, and many years later, her house at 59 St Mary’s Street was commemorated with a blue plaque. For more see, Liddington & Norris, One Hand Tied Behind Us, 1978 & 2000. Liddington, The Life & Times of a Respectable Rebel, 1984. The Selina Cooper papers are deposited with the Lancashire Record Office, Preston. 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 Selina Cooper 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(-247318.6462443778 7138883.614277022) NUWSS https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/d3de9a4bc990b8a9d004466bcd6c8e97.jpg 531e982d2e2f85d3f59ce44d58fd3c68 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 32 Skircoat Green, Halifax, West Riding, HX3 ORX Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Married Occupation Not known 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 Mary and Arthur Taylor were pioneer members of the early labour movement in Halifax. As a member of the engineers’ union, he was victimized, lost his job  ~ and then was elected a Labour councillor. Mary was a key member of the Women’s Labour League and was elected a Poor Law Guardian. They had lived in the terraced suburbs of Pellon Lane, birthplace of Halifax’s nest of suffragettes. They had one daughter, Hilda, who as a teenager somehow managed to stay on at school. In 1905, the Taylors moved out of smoky Halifax to more rural Skircoat Green, and into a larger house ~ with six rooms. At New Year 1907, when the Halifax WSPU branch was formed, Mary was undoubtedly a moving spirit; and she was among the 22 Halifax women who signed the ILP Manifesto to the WSPU. Then in February 1907, Mary went down to London to take part in the WSPU’s Women’s Parliament, was arrested ~ and was sentenced to 14 days in prison. In 1911, when Emmeline Pankhurst came to address a crowded meeting in the Halifax Mechanics’ Institute on 30 March, Mary was undoubtedly present: her husband, Councillor Arthur Taylor, proposed the resolution supporting the Conciliation Bill. Certainly, for the census boycott three days later, we can be absolutely sure that Mary was an evader. Both Mary and Arthur Taylor were appointed magistrates. Alderman Arthur Taylor JP died in Dec 1923, and Mary Taylor JP in April 1934, aged 70. For more see, Liddington, Rebel Girls: their fight for the vote, 2006. 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 Mary 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 POINT(-207407.50298675176 7114078.075421537) WSPU 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/730433e9f406b55a1f7d416d6126640c.JPG 97ada88c8ebcc00aec41b56a986c38e5 https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/59925008775aba66ff8cf9583c60c307.jpg 3062a73521e6f63cc1ce15b0440aada3 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 29 Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 13 Park Place(?), off Queens Road, Halifax HX1 3XS. Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Single Occupation Probably a weaver 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 Lavena was born in Hebden Bridge in 1881, the daughter of a fustian dyer. Around her tenth birthday, she became a half-time tailoress in a local clothing factory, leaving school to work full-time soon after. In the 1901 aged 19, she is recorded as working as a machinist fustian clothing tailoress, still in Hebden Bridge. Little is known of Lavena’s next five years. However, finding small-town Hebden Bridge restricting, in c. 1906 she moved up to more cosmopolitan Halifax, working as a weaver. Here there were more like-minded women in the Women’s Labour League and in the WSPU. Living off Queens Road, Lavena found herself in the heart of Halifax’s nest of suffragettes. In March 1907, she went down to Westminster, was arrested ~ and imprisoned for 14 days. The next year, February 1908, she was again down in London, for the WSPU’s Women’s Parliament, was again arrested ~ and sentenced to 6 weeks. Such harsh prison sentences inevitably took their toll. And from 1908, Lavena seemed to distance herself from WSPU militancy. In ‘Suffragettes on the Tramp’, she and Laura Wilson dressed in old clothes, walked the 25 miles to Wakefield to experience life as a tramp. And increasingly Lavena turned to the  new educational opportunities offered by the Workers’ Education Association (WEA): she wanted to make up for her few years’ schooling, cut so brutally short. Lavena now found her voice ~ and was soon writing her wonderful ‘The Letters of a Tailoress’ (The Highway, WEA), reflecting back on the confining horizons of her late-Victorian girlhood. Lavena had emerged as a talented writer.  In March 1911, when Emmeline Pankhurst came to Halifax and spoke on the census boycott at the Mechanics’ Institute Hall, Lavena was probably sitting on the platform behind her. Three days later, on census night itself, she was undoubtedly an evader (from 13 Park Place, off Queens Road, where she was a boarder).  In 1917, she married George Baker, a private soldier, at the Unitarian Chapel, Halifax ~ and they moved to Bradford. Sadly, Lavena fell into virtual obscurity for the next 40 years. She died in 1957 in Bradford, one of the ‘the disappeared’.  For more see, Liddington, Rebel Girls: their fight for the vote, Virago Press 2006 (includes selections from Lavena’s writings). 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 Lavena Saltonstall 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(-209161.8870294605 7116985.81594354) WSPU https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/fdb037ab72ce054163e77982d5b12ed3.jpg 710e1ca8c8b41fd964830cbca97f0e4c https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/f2f8fae303da5ecaa8ea3047badd39a4.jpg dc00a78e39d283d96b8b95d797ae85c9 Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 41 Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 3 Rhodesia Avenue, Halifax, West Riding HX3 OPB Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Single Occupation Medical Doctor 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 Born in 1870, Helena Jones grew up in north Wales and became an early Fabian. One of the pioneer generation of impressive women doctors, she studied at the Royal Free in London, qualifying in 1901. A suffragette, she spoke at the great 1908 WSPU rally in Hyde Park ~ and soon impressed Emmeline Pankhurst.  Circa 1909 Dr Helena Jones was appointed the first schools’ Medical Officer for the West Riding, and moved up to live in Halifax. Despite her demanding job, she became the WSPU organizer for Halifax, linking the Pankhursts’ headquarters in London (undoubtedly by telephone) with local suffragettes - like Mary Taylor who lived just a short walk away. Helena Jones was the organizing genius behind Emmeline Pankhurst’s census boycott meeting in Halifax on Thursday 30 March 1911. It was  held in the town-centre Mechanics’ Institute Hall and Dr Jones took the chair at this crowded meeting. Three days later, on census night itself, Helena Jones was a very resolute evader: the enumerator wrote a statement to this effect on her schedule, which was signed by her domestic servant, the only occupant of the house. In World War I, Dr Jones worked in Corsica with the Fabian Relief Fund. She then returned to Wales, working as assistant Medical Officer of Health in the Rhondda, in charge of the maternity and child welfare clinic. She died in September 1946. For more see, Ryland Wallace, The Women’s Suffrage Movement in Wales 1866-1928 (University of Wales Press, 2009). 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 Helena Jones (Dr.) 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(-206951.92797074374 7114879.389367339) WSPU https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/c29e769f4f25b56ef0ea881624be7cb4.jpg fa56a62feeb617aadc878c439deb5444 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 for the Vicarage at 35 Church Street, Lenton, where Alice is described as 'Secretary Suffragist Society'. 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 Lenton Vicarage, 35 Church Street, Nottingham 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 Occupation Secretary of Suffrage Society Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 27 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Single Biographical Text Alice was the younger sister to (see) Helen Kirkpatrick Watts. Her father was the Vicar of Holy Trinity church in Lenton, Nottingham, and both he and his wife were known supporters of the East Midlands Federation of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies. He had allowed suffrage meetings to be held in the church hall. When Helen became an active suffragette and was arrested and imprisoned in Holloway she made sure that her sisters at home at the vicarage, Alice and Ethel, received the Votes for Women newspaper. We do not know what Alice's activities were except that on the 1911 census form she is listed as the ‘Secretary of Suffragist Society’ and may therefore have occupied a paid position with the local NUWSS. Researched and contributed by Nottingham Women's History group www.nottinghamwomenshistory.org.uk. Sources: No Surrender! Women's Suffrage in Nottinghamshire, Rowena Edlin-White (Ed.) Nottingham Women's History Group ISBN:978-1-900074-31-5 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 Alice Watts 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(-130831.68647523507 6973479.733651238) NUWSS https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/e9e9505f30235a372c27fdcff2f20386.png 669d9a5668418ca38c1487fb62a5c05a 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 Edith c.1910. Source: London School of Economics (LSE) Library. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/2429e099f58f65f8ccf8f9908fc175a0.jpg ee33eb217d47409e7b21ccb0d310b49f https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/c1881993be2ee3b4d44bf4574db7dea6.png 51d01e331529bd42f0ba42d32c9d152d 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 Edith making Jam for the cause c. 1910. Source: London School of Economics (LSE) Library. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/ea4c0a5abb37d3eba319561454a83da3.png 7fedee018ebe67f1b3acc32a9bf20f7d 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 Edith (left) with WFL members. Source: London School of Economics (LSE) Library. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Lecturer Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 36 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 38 Hogarth Hill, Hampstead, 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 Edith (1875-1954) was born in Middlesex and married her husband George in 1899, afterwards obtaining a BSc Degree. She was a member of the Independent Labour Party and first engaged in Votes for Women politics through Mrs Pankhurst's WSPU. Edith was an early member - joining the society in 1906 - and sacrificed her career as a lecturer in Mathematics to work for the women's suffrage cause. That year she was arrested for 'scuffling' with police in the House of Commons lobby and served one month imprisonment. Edith was also jointly appointed the WSPU's honorary secretary with fellow member Charlotte Despard. However, in 1907 - along with Charlotte Despard and others - Edith broke away from the WSPU helping to form a new suffrage society - the Women's Freedom League (WFL). She had come to see the WSPU's more violent militancy as hindering Votes for Women. Edith had no objection to law-breaking, but instead believed that acts of passive resistance could better win over the general public and importantly politicians. Hence, Edith took part in the suffrage census boycott of 1911, writing 'No Votes for Women-No information from Women' across her census form as well as other statements highlighting women's status as 'non persons'. She and her husband were at home when the census official called, so were 'resisting' rather then 'evading', but they may have housed other census evaders there for the night. The red ink on the census form represents the census official's attempt to fill in the blanks of information. Edith acted as honorary secretary for the WFL until 1911 when she became head of its 'Political and Militant' department. However, by 1912, ill health forced her to resign. In 1918, Edith stood as an independent candidate in Hendon in the General Elections, but was unsuccessful. In 1919, she became Middlesex County Council's first female member and later, its first female chairman. For more on Edith, see, Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928 (London: Routledge, 2001) and Jill Liddington, Vanishing for the Vote: Suffrage, Citizenship and the Battle for the Census (Manchester: Manchester Uni Press, 2014). 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 Edith How Martyn 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(-22001.596039435877 6725771.8051592605) WFL https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/939b6a6f749f84df58e9866716925354.jpg c7470a582dbd13649aa42fe0148df5cf https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/43bcca9b567fff11de09042fd6f5dae4.png 085eec8e804ac0528249502296eaff56 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 Google maps 2019 https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/0f80d63bd5f232fb65cf3d4f6d5a736e.png c8abdbf5516d76b2272e398bcad34dad 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 WSPU antiques valuation event at 30 Bouverie Road West. Source: Votes for Women, 1 March 1912, p. 347. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/585278aba684ec9071314dc784fed525.png 92ebb442eb76dfc424f72f2e90c4611d 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 Catherine Smart's death in 1915. Source: Folkestone, Hythe, Sandgate and Cheriton Herald, 23 January, 1915, p. 8. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Boarding house keeper 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 Widow Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 'Trevarra' 30 Bouverie Road West, Folkestone. 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 Catherine Annie Smart (1847-1915) was a member of the local WSPU in Folkestone and Boarding housekeeper at 'Trevarra' for several years. One of her long term residents there appears to have been WSPU organiser for Canterbury and South Kent, Miss Florence Macaulay. The hotel proprietor, a Miss Marjorie Key, was clearly sympathetic to the votes for women cause as she consented to several fund raising events and suffrage planning meetings being held at Trevarra. This included in 1912, a suffragette equivalent of the 'Antiques Roadshow' where members were invited to bring items for valuation in exchange for a donation to raise funds for the WSPU! (see image). On census night in 1911, Catherine oversaw a census 'evasion' at the boarding house, providing a safe space for 3 other women to evade - one of whom was likely Macaulay. Catherine resists rather than evades the 1911 census, listing herself as 'Mrs Smart'. The census official writes suffragette next to her name, creating - presumably unintentionally - a rather witty read of 'Mrs Smart Suffragette'. The census official also notes that Mrs Smart and the others refused to fill in the schedule because 'women have no vote'. Still at 30 Bouverie Road West, Catherine died in January 1915 aged 68. See also Elizabeth Crawford and Jill Liddington's 'Gazetteer' in Liddington, Vanishing for the Vote: Suffrage, Citizenship and the Battle for the Census (Manchester: 2014). 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 Catherine Annie Smart 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(130165.78037891384 6635094.164059349) WSPU https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/162d29b688c15c9c307c81722a75cab5.png 085eec8e804ac0528249502296eaff56 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 Google maps 2019. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/21c4187185377eb0271e7339c73f455a.png cab9ae3e037958a48896aaea3f5e0d03 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's speech in support of women's suffrage. Source: The Canterbury Journal and Farmers Gazette, 18 Feb, 1911, p. 2. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/192c0cb5cb5775fb1beb6dc0e27e0db1.jpg c7470a582dbd13649aa42fe0148df5cf 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 was likely one of the unnamed women evading on the census form for 30 Bouverie Road West under Mrs Smart. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/579f5a4dea84f87f4354233ff3ffaaa3.png f1732487ab931cfd259b38dcd8722625 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's letter organizing local travel to the Women's Coronation Procession in London in 1911. Source: The Dover Express and East Kent News, 9th June, 1911, p. 2. 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 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 'Trevarra' 30 Bouverie Road West, Folkestone. 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 Florence (1862-1945) attended Somerville College, Oxford, via a grant, but her time there was cut short by her father's death. She took up several subsequent teaching posts over the next twenty years, spending six years teaching at Great Yarmouth High School. She became a member of the WSPU and one of its organizers. This meant that Florence led a nomadic lifestyle, living and organizing in Brighton, Bristol, the Midlands and Edinburgh between 1907 and 1909. However, by 1910 and until the end of 1912, Florence was based at 'Trevarra' and was the WSPU organizer for Canterbury and South Kent. It is likely that Florence took part in the organised suffrage boycott of the census in 1911, and that she was one of the unknown women listed at Trevarra and 'evading' courtesy of Trevarra's house keeper, Catherine Smart. Also in 1911, Florence was key in organizing local women's participation in the huge Women's Coronation Procession through London organised by suffrage campaigners across societies and gave a speech arguing for Votes for Women which was well received in the local press - not always the case. One argument put forward against female suffrage was that 'women had not sufficient political knowledge to warrant the vote'. Florence riposted in her speech that - 'There is no education for using the vote like having it ... we want to mind our own business and set the men free to mind theirs' to which their was much laughter (see image). Florence was arrested in 1913 in London when leading WSPU figure Annie Kenney was also arrested for incitement to riot. Florence was sentenced to 21 days in prison or a £5 fine for obstruction. Her fine was paid. Interestingly, Florence was also the author of 'The Women's Marseillaise' in 1909 a popular marching song published by the WSPU. See, Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928 (London: 2001). 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 E. M. Macaulay 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(130165.78037891384 6635094.164059349) WSPU