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