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