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Women's Tax Resistance League
The Women's Tax Resistance League (WTRL) was from 1909 to 1918 a direct action group associated with the Women's Freedom League that used tax resistance to protest against the disenfranchisement of women during the British women's suffrage movement. Dora Montefiore proposed the formation of the league in 1897, and it was formally established on 22 October 1909. The league's activities peaked in the years before the First World War but were largely deflated in 1914 by the onset of that war, when the league membership passed a resolution to temporarily suspend their tax resistance. Members saw themselves in a tradition of British tax resistance that included John Hampden. According to one source: "Tax resistance proved to be the longest-lived form of militancy, and the most difficult to prosecute. More than 220 women, mostly middle-class, participated in tax resistance between 1906 and 1918, some continuing to resist through the First World War, despite a general suspension of m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Davies
Alice Davies (1870 - ''alive in'' 1919 ) was a British suffragette and nurse. She was imprisoned for protesting for women's right to vote by smashing windows, went on hunger strike and was awarded the Women's Social and Political Union Hunger Strike Medal 'for Valour'. Life and activism Born in 1870, to parents in Liverpool and had at least one brother, who later had a son Frederick Lesley Stuart Davies, serving in the WWI Army Cycle Corps. Alice Davies joined the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) to protest for women's right to vote. Davies became the Liverpool WPSU Branch organiser from June 1910 to September 1912, trying to move the approach of the four branches in the area to holding more large indoor events and social functions, away from the frequent street meetings outside factories and smaller 'At Homes' in more affluent areas that were a feature before her. The groups in the Cheshire side of the Mersey continued the street events with speakers from Liverpo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clemence Housman
Clemence Annie Housman (23 November 1861 – 6 December 1955) was an author, illustrator and activist in the women's suffrage movement. She was the sister of A. E. Housman and Laurence Housman. Her novels included ''The Were-Wolf'', ''Unknown Sea'' and'' The Life of Sir Aglovale De Galis''. She was also a leading figure in the suffragette movement. Life Clemence was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. She went to the South London School of Technical Art in 1883 where she learned, among other things, wood-engraving.Elizabeth Crawford (2002) ''The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866–1928'', page 424. Routledge. She worked for a time as an engraver for illustrated papers such as ''The Graphic''. In 1908 she subscribed to the Women's Social and Political Union, and in 1909 she was a co-founder, with her brother Laurence Housman, of the Suffrage Atelier. She made banners for the suffrage movement between 1908 and 1914. In 1910 she became a member of the committee o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilian Hicks
Lilian Hicks (1853–1924) was a British campaigner for the vote for agricultural labourers and later Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom. Hicks took an active role in several organisations and was arrested on Black Friday in 1910. Life Hicks was born in Colchester in 1853. She and her husband, Charles Hicks, lived at Great Holland Hall where her daughter Amy was born. She campaigned to support agricultural labourers who in the 19th century were denied the vote. The campaign had success when the Representation of the People Act 1884 became law giving the vote to male agricultural labourers. irrespective of gender because they had no property. Hicks went on to campaign for women's suffrage via a number of organisations as the women's cause was splintered by different allegiances. Many would not get involved in criminal acts or they disagreed with the dictatorial approach of Women's Social and Political Union's leadership. Hicks had been associated with the suffrage cause since ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Hicks
Amy Maud Bull, MBE or Amy Hicks (16 July 1877 – 11 February 1953) was a British teacher and suffragist. Life Bull was born in Great Holland Hall in 1877. She went to Girton Hall where she won a prize every year until she obtained a first degree in classics in 1899. She was a lecturer at Westfield College in 1900–1901, then taught at Belvedere High School, Liverpool (1901–1904) and was a fellow at Bryn Mawr College (1904–1905).Elizabeth Crawford, ‘Bull , Amy Maud (1877–1953)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200accessed 31 Dec 2016/ref> left, Amy's mother, Lilian Hicks (by Lena Connell)">Lena_Connell.html" ;"title="Lilian Hicks (by Lena Connell">Lilian Hicks (by Lena Connell) Amy's mother, Lilian Hicks, had been associated with the suffrage cause since Amy was a young girl. They were both members by 1902 of the Central Society for Women's Suffrage and they were soon joining celebrations of civil disobedience in pursuit of their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine Heaney
Katherine, also spelled Catherine, and other variations are feminine names. They are popular in Christian countries because of their derivation from the name of one of the first Christian saints, Catherine of Alexandria. In the early Christian era it came to be associated with the Greek adjective (), meaning "pure", leading to the alternative spellings ''Katharine'' and ''Katherine''. The former spelling, with a middle ''a'', was more common in the past and is currently more popular in the United States than in Britain. ''Katherine'', with a middle ''e'', was first recorded in England in 1196 after being brought back from the Crusades. Popularity and variations English In Britain and the U.S., ''Catherine'' and its variants have been among the 100 most popular names since 1880. The most common variants are ''Katherine,'' ''Kathryn,'' and ''Katharine''. The spelling ''Catherine'' is common in both English and French. Less-common variants in English include ''Katheryn'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabella Eliza Harrison
Isabella may refer to: People and fictional characters * Isabella (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters * Isabella (surname), including a list of people Places United States * Isabella, Alabama, an unincorporated community * Isabella, California, a former settlement * Lake Isabella, California, a man-made reservoir * Isabella, Georgia, an unincorporated community * Isabella County, Michigan * Isabella, an unincorporated community in Isabella Township, Michigan * Isabella, Minnesota, an unincorporated community * Isabella, Missouri, an unincorporated community * Isabella River (Minnesota) * Isabella, Oklahoma, a census-designated place and unincorporated community * Isabella, Pennsylvania (other) * Isabella Furnace, a cold-blast charcoal iron furnace, Pennsylvania Elsewhere * Isabella River (New South Wales), Australia * Isabella Island, Tasmania, Australia * Isabela Island (Galápagos) * Isabella, Manitoba, Canada, a settlement * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Haslam
Kate name may refer to: People and fictional characters * Kate (given name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or nickname * Gyula Káté (born 1982), Hungarian amateur boxer * Lauren Kate (born 1981), American author of young adult fiction * ten Kate, a Dutch toponymic surname originally meaning "at the house" Arts and entertainment * ''Kate'' (TV series), a British drama series (1970-1972) * ''Kate'' (film), a 2021 American action thriller film * An alternative title of "Crabbit Old Woman", a poem attributed to Phyllis McCormack * ''Kate'', a young adult novel by Valerie Sherrard * "Kate" (Ben Folds Five song), 1997 * "Kate" (Johnny Cash song), 1972 * "Kate", a song by Arty * "Kate (Have I Come Too Early, Too Late)", a song by Irving Berlin, 1947 * ''The Kate'', American TV series Ships * CSS ''Kate'', a Confederate blockade runner during the American Civil War * , a Union Navy steamer during the American Civil War * SS ''Kate'' (tug), a woo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Harvey
Kate Harvey (13 November 1862 – 29 April 1946) was an English suffragist, physiotherapist, and charity worker. Profoundly deaf and widowed at a young age, she operated a home for women and children, and then later for disabled children. She participated in the Women's Tax Resistance League and was jailed for her refusal to pay tax if she were not allowed the right to vote. She was the first person imprisoned for failure to pay a tax under the Insurance Act. Early life Felicia Catherine Glanvill was born on 13 November 1862 in Peckham, London.Doreen A. Woodford, 'A Deaf Fighter for the Rights of Women.' Deaf History Journal, Vol.2 (3) p.7-21) She married Frank Harvey and had three daughters, before she was widowed. She operated a home in her residence in Bromley for disabled children and was an early practitioner of physical therapy, at a time when Victorian society frowned upon women working in medicine, especially in a field which used physical contact. Suffrage Harvey joined ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mabel Hardie
Mabel Hardie (1866–1916) was a British physician and surgeon. She was a war surgeon at the Scottish Women's Hospital and is named in the First World War roll of honour. Biography Hardie was born in 1866 at Marple, then in Cheshire, England. Hardie studied Natural Sciences at Girton College, University of Cambridge, between 1887 and 1890. Because of her work in Cambridge she was awarded an MA by Trinity College Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ... and then went on to train as a doctor at the University of Glasgow, graduating with an Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, MB ChB. After graduation she was house surgeon at Belgrave Hospital for Children, outdoor doctor and house physician at Leith Hospital, and house surgeon at Glasgow Samaritan Hospit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cicely Hamilton
Cicely Mary Hamilton (née Hammill; 15 June 1872 – 6 December 1952), was an English actress, writer, journalist, suffragist and feminist, part of the struggle for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom. She is now best known for the feminist play ''How the Vote was Won'', which sees a male anti-suffragist change his mind when the women in his life go on strike.Lisa Shariari, "Hamilton, Cicely" in Faye Hammill, Ashlie Sponenberg and Esme Miskimmin (ed.), ''Encyclopedia of British Women's Writing, 1900-1950''. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. (pp. 105-6) She was also the author of one of the most frequently performed suffrage plays, ''A Pageant of Great Women'' (1909), which featured the character of Jane Austen as one of its "Learned Women." Biography Born in 1872, Cicely Hammill in Paddington, London, she was the eldest of the four children of Maude Mary and Denzil Hammil. She was educated in Malvern, Worcestershire and in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe. Hammill was raised ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katharine Gatty
Katharine Gatty (11 June 1870 – 1 May 1952) was a nurse, journalist, lecturer and militant suffragette. As a prominent member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), she received from them the Hunger Strike Medal after going on a hunger strike in prison during which she was force-fed. In her later years she resided in California in the United States before emigrating to Australia, where she spent her last years. Early years Of Irish descent through her mother,A.S.U to Hear Union Speaker: Feminist to Relate experiences in Italy - '''', Volume 93, Issue 8, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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