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| Your otherwise excellent article on the Pankhurst Centre (Wanted: a vote of confidence in birthplace of the suffragette movement, 1 January) omitted to mention The Women’s Library, a collection that not only grew out of the women’s suffrage movement, but which also contains the largest accumulation of primary sources in the UK on the women’s suffrage movement. Now housed at the LSE Library, this unique collection covers the organised campaigns for women’s suffrage in their entirety, from 1866 through to 1928, and documents the work of both suffragists and suffragettes. | Your otherwise excellent article on the Pankhurst Centre (Wanted: a vote of confidence in birthplace of the suffragette movement, 1 January) omitted to mention The Women’s Library, a collection that not only grew out of the women’s suffrage movement, but which also contains the largest accumulation of primary sources in the UK on the women’s suffrage movement. Now housed at the LSE Library, this unique collection covers the organised campaigns for women’s suffrage in their entirety, from 1866 through to 1928, and documents the work of both suffragists and suffragettes. |
| Highlights include the personal papers of Millicent Fawcett, prison diaries kept by suffragettes Emily Wilding Davison and Katie Gliddon, and banners designed by the Artists Suffrage League. The collection also places the campaign for women’s suffrage in the context of the wider battle for gender equality, from Josephine Butler’s campaign against the Contagious Diseases Act in the 1860s to the current work of the Women’s Equality Party. We are pleased to welcome anyone who wishes to use the collections.Nicola WrightDirector of LSE Library and librarian of the British Library of Political and Economic Science | Highlights include the personal papers of Millicent Fawcett, prison diaries kept by suffragettes Emily Wilding Davison and Katie Gliddon, and banners designed by the Artists Suffrage League. The collection also places the campaign for women’s suffrage in the context of the wider battle for gender equality, from Josephine Butler’s campaign against the Contagious Diseases Act in the 1860s to the current work of the Women’s Equality Party. We are pleased to welcome anyone who wishes to use the collections.Nicola WrightDirector of LSE Library and librarian of the British Library of Political and Economic Science |
| • This is not really the centenary of votes for women. Before 1832, county and many borough franchises were based solely on property ownership. Few women met those property qualifications – but very few men did, either. The restriction of the vote to “male persons” began only with the Great Reform Act for parliamentary elections, and for local elections with the Municipal Corporations Act 1835, which disenfranchised far more women, since a widow or a spinster had often had the vote in municipal elections if she had owned or rented a property that made her liable for the payment of poor rates. Even after that, though, women regularly continued to vote for, and to hold, various local offices outside the statutory framework of municipal activity. David LindsayLanchester, County Durham | • This is not really the centenary of votes for women. Before 1832, county and many borough franchises were based solely on property ownership. Few women met those property qualifications – but very few men did, either. The restriction of the vote to “male persons” began only with the Great Reform Act for parliamentary elections, and for local elections with the Municipal Corporations Act 1835, which disenfranchised far more women, since a widow or a spinster had often had the vote in municipal elections if she had owned or rented a property that made her liable for the payment of poor rates. Even after that, though, women regularly continued to vote for, and to hold, various local offices outside the statutory framework of municipal activity. David LindsayLanchester, County Durham |
| • This year we rightly celebrate the 100th anniversary of (some) women “being given” the vote. But may I take this opportunity to draw attention to the fact that 4 February marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of the first woman elected to Westminster. | • This year we rightly celebrate the 100th anniversary of (some) women “being given” the vote. But may I take this opportunity to draw attention to the fact that 4 February marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of the first woman elected to Westminster. |
| Sadly, the first female MP has been largely forgotten both here and in Ireland. Maybe this is because at the time she was interned in Holloway jail for opposing conscription during the first world war. Or that she had “form”, having previously had a death sentence commuted to life, for her part in the 1916 Easter Rising. Could it be that as a member of Sinn Féin she would not take her seat (sound familiar)? I am of course referring to Countess Constance Markievicz.Laurence O’HaraLeeds | Sadly, the first female MP has been largely forgotten both here and in Ireland. Maybe this is because at the time she was interned in Holloway jail for opposing conscription during the first world war. Or that she had “form”, having previously had a death sentence commuted to life, for her part in the 1916 Easter Rising. Could it be that as a member of Sinn Féin she would not take her seat (sound familiar)? I am of course referring to Countess Constance Markievicz.Laurence O’HaraLeeds |
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