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Florence Annie Conybeare
Florence Annie Conybeare (13 September 1872 – 29 February 1916) was a British campaigner for the Women's Suffrage movement.''Women's Suffrage: Some Objections Answered'', an article written by Florence A.V. Conybeare, i''The Commonwealth & Empire Review'' 1908, pp 282-287. She was a fundraiser and Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) worker during the First World War, and an active member of the Women's Liberal Federation. Birth Conybeare was born Florence Annie Strauss on 13 September 1872 in Brixton, London. She was the eldest daughter of Gustave Strauss,Born 'Gustavus'. a German-speaking Bohemian glass merchant and inventor,''Pottery Gazette'', 1 August 1890. Apparatus for producing glass tube for use in making large beads, Patent No. 49,659, Class XXXIII; refers to birthplace of inventor from Gablonz, North Bohemia, a town known for glass production, who became a naturalised British subject. Her mother, Frances Lehmaier, was born in New York. Marriage On 15 October 1896 she mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's Suffrage
Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. Beginning in the start of the 18th century, some people sought to change voting laws to allow women to vote. Liberal political parties would go on to grant women the right to vote, increasing the number of those parties' potential constituencies. National and international organizations formed to coordinate efforts towards women voting, especially the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (founded in 1904 in Berlin, Germany). Many instances occurred in recent centuries where women were selectively given, then stripped of, the right to vote. The first place in the world to award and maintain women's suffrage was New Jersey in 1776 (though in 1807 this was reverted so that only white men could vote). The first province to ''continuously'' allow women to vote was Pitcairn Islands in 1838, and the first sovereign nation was Norway in 1913, as the Kingdom of Hawai'i, which originally had universal suffrage in 1840, r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
