Probably a Social Worker at the Bermondsey Settlement

Unknown

Single

63 Union Road, Rotherhithe, Bermondsey

WFL?

Evades

Currently, we know little of Miss Britten other than she was most likely a social worker at the Bermondsey Settlement with her housemates (see) Anna Martin and Maria White Frank and that the three women took part in the suffrage boycott of the government census survey in 1911 in protest at not having the vote. Miss Britten chose to leave her census form blank as did fellow resident Maria White Frank. Like Maria, Miss Britten wrote on the cover instead 'I refuse to fill up form as a protest against a non-representative Government'. The boycott was organised by suffrage societies whose members were often prepared to break the law such as the Women's Freedom League (WFL) and the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). It is suggested here that Miss Britten likely belonged with her housemates to the WFL.

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