8 10 286 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 16 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 67 Owen 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 Dorothy Florence was born in 1895, the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Carrier. In 1911, aged 16, she was still living with her family at 67 Owen Road, Wolverhampton. Dorothy, despite her young age, was still active with the women's suffrage movement, joining the Wolverhampton branch of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies. Like her sister Beatrice, Dorothy was actively involved collecting subscriptions and delivering notices for the society in the district of Lea Road. Dorothy did not marry, and died 8 June 1961, not long after the death of her elder sister Beatrice. 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 Dorothy Carrier 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(-238648.616760743 6905593.90263312) NUWSS https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/f92dc5e70363a1db9f7e055fba166d46.jpg 573fdffdf6f2c08c4b735cce6c4bcd7c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Photograph by Douglas Miller 'Suffragists at Clayton'. Source: courtesy of www.sussexpostcards.info. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/ea86fba8b6ccfc86136008dcdd5991a9.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 Photograph by Douglas Miller 'Suffragists at Burgess Hill'. Source: Mid Sussex Times Archive. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/47f2ad5bf4b8fec560f2c293b186255f.jpeg 3d034e5d8689fbf1039be9b77beb0f15 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Photograph Douglas Miller, 'Suffragists on road to Hassocks'. Source: courtesy of Mid Sussex Times archive https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/83d4d86e23bc701787b890c2f5aeae0e.jpg 9bcb2dfaa535fd028b7bd43b44272d14 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Photograph by Douglas Miller, 'Suffragists at Cuckfield'. Source: Courtesy Frances Stenlake. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Photographer Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 37 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 9 Boltro Road, Haywards Heath, 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 Photographer Douglas Miller (1874-1961) was a prominent member of the Mid Sussex progressive Congregationalist community, and secretary of the Haywards Heath Liberal and Radical Club. He, his wife Kate, and her sister Lillian Peerless, were among the ‘principal workers’ named in the Mid Sussex Times report of the celebration of the election to Parliament in January 1906 of Liberal suffragist (see) Charles Corbett. The Liberal and Radical Club did not always live up to its name. When, in March 1913, Douglas Miller proposed, in a Club debate conducted exclusively by men, that the Parliamentary franchise be extended to women and men on equal terms, ‘everyone voted against the motion except the mover’. A few months later the NUWSS Great Suffragist Pilgrimage, converging on London from starting points across the country, was Douglas Miller’s opportunity to contribute to the documentation of suffrage activity in this part of Sussex. On Monday 21 July 1913, Kate Miller, a committee member of the Haywards branch of the Cuckfield and Central Sussex Women’s Suffrage Society, joined Brighton and Hove, Worthing, Littlehampton and Seaford suffragists to set off up the Brighton Road, marching with them as far as Burgess Hill. Douglas Miller met them at Clayton where he took the first of a series of four photographs, showing the marchers sporting NUWSS sashes, haversacks and hat decorations, and carrying the drum used to accompany the singing of stirring suffrage songs. Could his wife Kate be the foreground figure on the left? Bringing up the rear is the horse-drawn covered van that carried the Pilgrims’ luggage and campaign literature to be distributed en route. The Pilgrims then paused for lunch and waiting for them were Cuckfield and Central Sussex members led by (see) Edith Bevan. Douglas Miller’s second photograph shows them all gathered in front of the van, its slogan NATIONAL UNION OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE SOCIETIES NON-PARTY NON-MILITANT, now visible. Among the cyclists is (see) Flora de Gaudrion Merrifield, of the Brighton and Hove Women’s Franchise Society. Two policemen are present: Police Superintendent Anscombe of Haywards Heath is taking over as escort from his Brighton colleague. The third photograph shows the meeting held later that afternoon at the Reformers’ Tree in Burgess Hill. From the lorry used as a platform, the crowd was addressed by Alys Russell and Rica Timpany of the NUWSS. Chairman was Thomas Meates at whose home the Pilgrims had just stopped for tea. They had now been joined by the Eastbourne contingent whose banner is propped against the tree. The last photograph was taken in Cuckfield High Street on the Tuesday morning after the Pilgrims’ overnight stop in the town and an 8am service in its Congregational Church. Edith Bevan is in front, immediately behind Superintendent Anscombe, looking back to check that all are ready to continue up the road to London. Specially named by the Mid Sussex Times among ‘the upwards of 70’ present are (see) Marie Corbett, (see) Louisa Martindale and Flora de Gaudrion Merrifield. ‘Many Cuckfield residents accompanied them for a short distance, despite the wet weather.’ Researched & contributed by independent writer and researcher Frances Stenlake. Sources: Mid Sussex Times Brighton Gazette (archive). 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 Douglas Miller 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(-11862.538895752332 6621954.426668265) NUWSS https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/cffe5c55b9ecda8e026438cd673d91b6.jpg 3234c7fd94954ce4acf6b0edeb97d997 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Source: courtesy 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 21 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 'Rosemary' 42 Cyprus Road, 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 Biographical Text Dulcie was born in Nottingham. Her father was a German lace merchant who became the German vice-consul in Nottingham. There was a German Club on Market Street and a Club Germania on St Ann’s Well Road. Dulcie was involved in NUWSS, but also appears to have set up the local Friends League for Women’s Suffrage. Her husband Wilfred Stewart Rothera became the City Coroner and was also a supporter of women’s enfranchisement setting up a Men’s Association for Promoting Women’s Suffrage in Nottingham. Dulcie was a VAD nurse in WW1 and in 1939 was Commandant of Notts 202 Red Cross. She was also involved with the YMCA and the YWCA (Young Women’s Christian Association). Dulcie was also on the London Executive of the National Council of Women. Her obituary in the press stated that she had been an ardent feminist. 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. 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 Dulcie Alice Rothera 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(-127675.77487724744 6977733.290411168) NUWSS https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/2e185afe1b9faa9b2cfa57ed051874f0.png 97981c7f96a3575db20bed40174707ab 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 Bevan, centre, wearing a hat decorated in NUWSS colours, Horsgate. The photograph was taken by Robert Bevan in 1914. His wife stands at the back of the group and his children sit at the front. Edith is seated between her father and her sister. Source: supplied by Frances Stenlake, courtesy of Patrick Baty. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/bb7682742c73c36eb34e0263a4b30db8.jpg 931a149c1c77b2124f967662f4db322c 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/3baa1ae669cb06d9f0a45806af736faa.png 724f3601f3a9d6e455cee157b8c4cac1 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's home, Horsgate House. Source & Copyright: Cuckfield Museum. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/033843b3b98f2b6a20359ddc5b98bf57.jpg 0467177aec2c65305fa95987e58cb680 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 Horsgate House today. Source: Photo thanks to Sue Burgess, Cuckfield Museum, May 2020. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/9f1e94a7874a31b9785522ec734850d1.jpg e9b0626d19a3af5bf05fb9de38748511 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 NUWSS 1913 Suffrage Pilgrim march through Cuckfield en route to London. Source & Copyright: Thanks to Sue Burgess at Cuckfield Museum. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/4eb5b49ec3add10ba90a049126184e09.jpg da0bc1e6e0406a9dc3b6e07e596b1fdd Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource A young Edith Bevan in the grounds of Horsgate House, circa 1890, with young visitor Greta Dashwood. Thanks to Sue Burgess at Cuckfield Museum. Source & Copyright: Cuckfield Museum. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Private means Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 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 Horsgate, Hanlye Lane, Cuckfield, 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 Edith Charlotte Bevan (1869-1952) was the younger daughter of Richard Bevan, Director of Barclays Bank in Brighton. One of her four brothers was the Camden Town Group artist Robert Bevan. The young Edith began training as a nurse in London but had to return home to look after her ailing mother, and then to stay on as companion to her widowed father. The 1911 census with which she complied, lists her with him, and five women ‘domestics’ and a groom at the family home Horsgate, Cuckfield. In April 1909, at a meeting at Horsgate, Edith co-founded the Cuckfield Women’s Suffrage Society with Congregationalist Edith Payne, supported by other local Congregationalists including the families of lawyer William Stevens, of artist Fred Miller and his photographer son Douglas, and Charles Clarke, founder and editor of the Mid Sussex Times, which charted its progress from local Cuckfield to Central Sussex Women’s Suffrage Society in its columns. Reflecting the Bevan family’s profile in the area, Edith and her father became Vice-Presidents of the Horsham Suffrage Society when this was formed in 1910 sitting under the umbrella of the NUWSS. Edith headed the Central Sussex suffragists (their banner made by her brother Robert’s wife, Stanislawa) in the July 1913 Great Suffrage Pilgrimage organized by the NUWSS which saw women walk from all parts of the country to converge in London. It seems likely that, as the first overnight stop en route to London was Cuckfield, the marchers were put up at Horsgate. Edith never addressed meetings herself but her social network enabled her to secure influential and titled suffrage supporters as patrons for the events she arranged. In July 1914, none other than Millicent Garrett Fawcett, leader of the NUWSS, spoke at Cuckfield. As one NUWSS organiser said of Edith’s Cuckfield committee, “I would like to commend their method of mothering baby societies in surrounding villages to other country branches, but I cannot promise them equal success, as they cannot borrow the most potent factor – Miss Bevan.” Contributed by: Independent researcher & writer Frances 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 Edith Bevan 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(-14793.692407422 6624039.31246994) 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/32cac09427998bac86490000c98ecdab.png 9aac0c94e3668e30a69d05c4d8dcee38 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/acee4669cabbd2a9390638e9f7391802.jpg 3ae8a3b16d86383a758e1d6e14886ce3 https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/3b5e66fe75500119a39046ff83db2bae.jpg 73052f07fb0bb8b25cacbdab1b39f436 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: Church League for Women's Suffrage, April 1912, p. 22. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/12cec3c6d12593c6fee854f4161ade15.png b769caa3570a4f567b1408a0f6c41c67 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 Church Militant, February 1918, p. 16. 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 22 Church Hill, 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 CLWS Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Complies Biographical Text Mrs Edith Kate Catlin lived in Church Hill with her husband George Catlin and their son 14-year-old George. Edith’s husband was an ordained minister in the Church of England Edith was honorary secretary of the Leamington branch of the Church League for Women’s Suffrage and may also have belonged to the Warwick and Leamington branch of the NUWSS. She believed in peaceful methods of campaigning for the vote. She attended a great number of suffrage meetings including one at Winter Hall, now Leamington Public Library, in November 1911. Earlier that year in June, she had also joined several other local men and women travelling down to London to take part in the Women’s Coronation Procession. The procession was organised 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. In spring 1912, Edith left Leamington behind and with it her work for the local suffrage societies. In recognition of her enthusiasm and hard work for the women's suffrage cause, she was awarded a despatch box, fountain pen and card case as a parting gift from the Warwick and Leamington branch. Edith exclaimed her surprise at the award expressing her wish that she could have done more. Edith’s husband George does not appear to have accompanied her to local suffrage meetings, and her public support for women’s suffrage may have put a strain on their marriage. George was 16 years her senior and some in the Anglican church would have frowned upon the clergyman’s ‘radical’ younger wife. Edith was also quite vocal about women's role within the church being recognised (see image below). The state of the marriage was such that by 1915, Edith left her husband and son to work in a charity settlement in the East End of London. She died two years later of uraemia after a failed operation. Her obituary (below) testifies to her hard work and to how well she was liked within the Leamington community. Edith’s son George was just 22 years old when his mother died, but feminist causes continued to play a huge part in his life. George would go on to marry writer, feminist and pacifist Vera Britten whose autobiography of her traumatic experiences as a nurse in the First World War Testament of Youth, became a best seller. The couple had two children together, one a daughter. Edith would never meet her granddaughter, but she is Shirley Williams, a pioneering female politician and academic who was a founder member of the Social Democratic Party in 1981 and who amongst many other achievements, represented the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords until her retirement in 2016. A political legacy her grandmother Edith would have surely been proud. Contributor/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 Edith Kate Catlin 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(-171821.02175830072 6852763.324013097) CLWS https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/11678c47c3420d31a2389a3430630644.jpg c498b76feca54db9865c98555f123d9c 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 Lees is absent from home, probably evading the census. Source: The National Archives https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/55e9047987d59fe188a72cb3e892e756.JPG cb2f1a0cc0a68310b1b3061285fab4d7 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 8 Ebers Grove, Nottingham. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Probably assisting in Haberdashery business 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 Married Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 8 Ebers Grove, Nottingham 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 Edith Annie was born in 1881 at 37 Derby Rd, Nottingham. She married John Lees in 1902 and they had 3 children. The family ran a haberdasher’s business situated at 28-30 Carlton Street. Edith became involved in women's suffrage and her scrapbook has a newspaper report in it of a Resolution in favour of women's suffrage passed by Nottingham Council from 6th February 1911. It also contains a photograph of a production of the 'Pageant of Great Women' performed at the Mechanics Institute in May 1911 with, we believe, her son John Lees Jnr. In 1911, she was living at 8 Ebers Grove, Nottingham, with her husband John, two children and a servant. However, she is absent from the 1911 census and so was likely evading as part of the suffrage census boycott. Given this, and that she was arrested on the 4th March 1912 for wilful damage, after breaking windows in London, Edith was probably a member of the WSPU. She gave a false name Annie Baker - her mother's maiden name and was bound over to keep the peace at Bow Street Magistrates Court. She was tried at Kensington on 19th March and appears to have been discharged on 26th. She was at that time pregnant with her third child so perhaps therefore she was discharged. Edith is on the Roll of Honour of Suffragette Prisoners 1905-1914. Later, she became a founder member of the Nottingham branch of the National Council of Women as did many ex-suffragists and suffragettes seeking to further the cause of women. At a meeting of the 'Nottingham Efficiency Club on 8th December 1920, she speaks on the subject of 'Women in Business' emphasising the benefits having women in business brings saying 'When they have more lady members of Parliament they will be able to use their influence in the right way.' She died in 1964 aged 82 and is buried in Wilford Hill Cemetery in Nottingham. 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 Edith Lees 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(-127943.38693307723 6977771.00011675) WSPU https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/ae210df49988b91c1889100afb5367ca.jpg 8f3a118ff9ab099d13d7a42cc9e1434e 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 Rigby. Source: open. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/a2730a7dbbdc14da4e7370e6ec326c24.jpg 71f11544f324083b58752d0ab4917909 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 Winckley Square. Source: Beverley Adams. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/1a7ca067acc0dd7ff890c722ec4cb6fc.jpeg a1757d5338d83f9b32536d9cc64c4076 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 Preston High School for Girls. Source: Beverley Adams. https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/a02aab3383a9032e0ad086be6a9791a0.jpeg e68d719398392671958367f845a64287 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 Book cover of 'The Rebel Suffragette: The Life of Edith Rigby' by Beverley Adams. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Private means Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 38 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 28 Winckley Square, Preston, Lancashire 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 Edith was born in Preston in 1872 and was the eldest child of Dr and Mrs Rayner. She attended Preston High School for Girls before becoming a pupil at Penrhos College in North Wales. Following the completion of her education Edith returned home and married Dr Charles Rigby and set up home in Winckley Square. She was a women's rights campaigner, who, despite being middle class, fought for better working conditions on behalf of the working women in the mills and factories in her hometown of Preston. She even set up an evening school for the young women of the mills so they would have a place to learn how to read, write, dance, and have fun. It was a natural step for Edith to make when she joined the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) after attending a meeting at the home of Emmeline Pankhurst in Manchester. She was an active campaigner and took part in many rallies in Westminster and back home in the north. She threw a black pudding at one MP whilst he was giving a speech in Manchester and tried to disrupt a meeting involving Winston Churchill at the Public Hall in Preston. She also detonated a small explosive device at the Cotton Exchange in Liverpool and burned down the bungalow of Lord Lever at Rivington, Lancashire. She evaded the 1911 census by joining others at a house party in Manchester (probably Dennison House – see Jessie Stephenson). She was imprisoned on several occasions and was force fed and then released under the Cat and Mouse Act, evading recapture by fleeing to Ireland. When the WSPU disbanded at the start of the First World War, Edith decided to form a Preston branch of the IWSPU (Independent) and it was decided they would campaign peacefully whilst helping with the war effort. Edith grew fruit and vegetables at her home and sold them cheaply at market, barely covering her costs. She formed the first Women’s Institute branch in Lancashire and often contributed to local good causes. Following the death of her husband in 1926 she relocated to North Wales with her younger sister where she died in 1950 aged 77. Sources: Phoebe Hesketh, My Aunt Edith (Lancashire County Books, 1992); Beverley Adams, The Rebel Suffragette: The Life of Edith Rigby (Pen and Sword, 2021); Lancashire Archives; Lancashire Post. Contributed by Beverley Adams author of ‘The Rebel Suffragette: The Life of Edith Rigby (above). See news blog 9.12.21. 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 Rigby 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(-300807.7506186927 7124042.72221032) WSPU https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/6746c98a9ccd77b244735eb8fe746b18.JPG 2c70b6e0e40a6122f90a623cfaceb7d9 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 (standing) circa 1907. Likely taken in South Africa during her Salvation Army days. Source: courtesy of The Women's Library (LSE) https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/aa50a42218533314630fafc8dcdf5302.jpg b59746e1d28ee6580e2f3193bb1f9af9 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) in her WVP uniform with Constance Antonia 'Nina' Boyle. Source: courtesy Women's Library (LSE). Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Journalist Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 23 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 185 King’s Road, Camden Town (now St Pancras Way) 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 Evades (absent abroad see biog) Biographical Text Edith Mary Watson (nee Wall) was born in 1888. To say that Edith did not have a good start in life is no exaggeration. She was born in the Hackney Union Workhouse the illegitimate daughter of Martha Wall, a domestic servant and single mother. Edith led an impressive life by any standards, becoming the first policewoman to wear a uniform, a campaigning journalist, a captain in the Salvation Army, a suffragist, Secretary of a pressure group on divorce law reform, and an early campaigner against female genital mutilation. Her mother Martha married Arthur Willett, and the family, including 3 stepsisters, moved to Marylebone. The family were Salvation Army members. Edith, thanks to the help of the wealthy mother of her Sunday School teacher, went to a good girl’s school, Hampden Gurney. Edith, while travelling in South Africa as a children’s nurse, decided to join the Salvation Army despite not being able to afford the uniform. It was then she suffered a sexual attack, and was nearly raped, by a fellow officer. This experience motivated her later work as a journalist and a campaign for female police officers and court officials to provide support to women. In 1910 she returned to London and became involved in the suffrage campaign with the Women’s Freedom League. She took part in the protest on the river Thames in 1913 where campaigners sailed past the Houses of Parliament singing protest songs. Edith was imprisoned in 1914 for chaining herself to the doors of Marylebone Magistrates’ court and began writing a suffrage column for the Daily Herald which by the 1930s, was the bestselling daily newspaper worldwide (it was Labour supporting and the precursor to The Sun before it was bought by Rupert Murdoch). Edith was also court correspondent for The Vote, the Women’s Freedom League’s newspaper. She wrote a series of pieces arguing against the injustices of a male dominated legal system. For example, comparing the lenient sentences handed down for domestic violence, sexual harassment, and abuse, contrasted to crimes against property. This was in a column ironically titled ‘the Protected Sex’. She met her future husband Ernest Watson around this time, and defying convention, they lived together before marriage. She spent some time in Algiers in 1911 and was likely there when the 1911 census was taken so appears to have been absent rather than evading. However, before she left that year, following an argument with Ernest, she was living with him in his ‘old room at his lodgings in Camden Town’ at 185 King’s Road, which is now St Pancras Way. As her last known location in 1911 this is where she is approximately located on the map. She and Ernest reconciled on her return, and they married in 1912. The couple had a son in 1919 but divorced a few years later. She continued to have live in relationships post-divorce. Edith wrote an autobiography which remains unpublished accessible via the Women’s Library (see sources). In it she describes how female journalists were not allowed in court when cases of an indecent nature were being heard. She knew women and girls were not believed, and they needed safeguarding as much as possible. She stated how “...Again and again, I heard a girl lose her case because she had not screamed…no man there seemed to understand why she had not done so if her story were true…why didn’t you scream? Because you needed that breath to fight…you are ashamed and embarrassed and want to abolish the very memory of it”. Edith was clearly drawing on her own experience. From 1914-1916 she served in the Women’s Volunteer Police Service (WVP) which she founded with (see) Constance Antonia ‘Nina’ Boyle (WFL). The service carried out patrols to assist women and children, and to counteract the restrictions placed on women by Victorian morality campaigners. Edith and Nina strongly believed women should have rights to public space. However, the WVP were increasingly used to control the behaviour of women (particularly working-class women) which was contrary to the original aims. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Boyle and Watson left. There were up to 5,000 women volunteers in the early days but by 1922 they were almost non-existent. The moral and social control they were being asked to enforce caused division amongst them and alienated the women they were supposed to be protecting. It wasn’t until 1923 that women police officers were officially sanctioned and given powers of arrest. Edith became an active member of the Independent Labour Party in the 1920s. She became friends with Fenner Brockway (later Lord Brockway, MP, and chairman and General Secretary of the Independent Labour Party) and his first wife Lila. The couple fostered Edith’s son for a while. Among her other exploits, Edith disguised herself as a nurse to obtain information for a campaign to improve conditions in mental hospitals; she criticised the Marriage Guidance Council for being too middle class; led a pressure group for divorce reform; and publicised the practice of Female Genital Mutilation in Kenya. She was an active campaigner for women most of her life, dying in a nursing home in Worthing in 1966. Sources: Edith Watson Papers & autobiography, ‘Travelling Hopefully - the autobiography of a Nobody’ accessible at the Women’s Library, LSE; Edith Watson entry Oxford DNB. Contributed by Susan Doe, Hackney Historian (with a particular interest in women’s history). 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 Watson 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(-15367.099104418334 6717894.350950394) WFL https://map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/files/original/8fc6640286d9b1186a8515abd02fcb81.jpg d432800774fd89f27d20d8fd947df503 Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Secretary Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 38 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Married Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 9 Park Road, Coventry 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 Originally from Solihull, Edith Chattaway married in 1902, Cyril White, secretary of the Coventry motor engineering company White and Poppe, co-founded by his brother and managing director Alfred White. Edith was active in founding the Coventry Women's Suffrage Society (part of the larger law abiding NUWSS) alongside her sister in law (see) Marie White. The two hosted local meetings for the NUWSS leading to the formation of a provisional Coventry committee in 1909 with Edith acting as treasurer. She also held meetings for the formal inauguration of the Coventry branch at her home in 1910. Seldom absent from society meetings throughout the campaign, by 1914 Edith had become its vice president. During the First World War, she was instrumental in setting up Infant Welfare Centres across the city and was also secretary for the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) in Coventry helping run a local shop for donations. 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 Edith White 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(-168188.0230157429 6873196.0846011005) NUWSS