Sarah Jackson,Rosemary Taylor

Voices from History: East London Suffragettes

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In 1914, the East London Federation of Suffragettes, led by Sylvia Pankhurst, split from the WSPU. Sylvia's mother and sister, Emmeline and Christabel, had encouraged her to give up her work with the poor women of East London — but Sylvia refused. Besides campaigning for women to have an equal right to vote from their headquarters in Bow, the ELFS worked on a range of equality issues which mattered to local women: they built a toy factory, providing work and a living wage for local women; they opened a subsidized canteen where women and children could get cheap, nutritious food; and they launched a nursery school, a crèche, and a mother-and-baby clinic. The work of the Federation (and 'our Sylvia', as she was fondly known by locals) deserves to be remembered, and this book, filled with astonishing first-hand accounts, aims to bring this amazing story to life.
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203 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2014
Publication year
2014
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  • Tamara Eidelmanhas quoted4 years ago
    Several of these societies combined to form the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies in 1897, led by the formidable Millicent Fawcett.
    When Millicent was a teenager, her older sister, Elizabeth Garrett, moved to London to study medicine, going on to be Britain’s first qualified woman doctor. Millicent’s visits to London to stay with Elizabeth brought her into contact with people with radical political views, including John Stuart Mill and her future husband Henry Fawcett, Liberal MP for Brighton.
    As well as using her superb organisational skills to advanc
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