16 10 286 https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.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://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.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://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.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://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.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. 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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 https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/7aecd95a1947c77a15acf53f0c9a6e1e.png 8101b75edcefeedcd921dda31a649035 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 Suffrage pilgrims at Clayton, 1913. Flora Merrifield is centre wearing spectacles. Source: Women's Library at LSE. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/d175e7f79a4a31f45fddde42798274fc.png de447cbc9f2770917832f3a9ff94adef 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 Suffrage pilgrims at Clayton, 1913. Flora is centre. Inscription reverse reads: '21 Jul the Brighton Road’ pilgrimage. Miss Merrifield, the organiser of the ‘Brighton Road’ Pilgrimage standing in front immediately between the figures in the van. The cycle corps, arranged in a row, warn motorists of the approach on the pilgrims, & sell the ‘Commom Cause’’. Source: The Women's Library, LSE. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/8344bd0cf20738bd66e04c10304626cd.jpg 7c08e25addf95413e71a3573984e773c 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://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/5432ee21e82e0ccb31a7358ae54bcbdf.png b33bc7d4c4fca3bdc815de71bfb26ca0 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 Clifton Terrace, Brighton in the 1880s. Source: The Regency Society https://sbpc.regencysociety.org/ https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/7d34ab3fe8346f8aa1de65345cd73583.JPG 1534878ba1e51e864212f943cf2e1a14 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 Impression of Flora in the 1920s. Source: Illustration created and contributed by Malcolm Bull. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 55 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Unmarried Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 14 Clifton Terrace, Brighton. 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 Occupation Private means Biographical Text Flora de Gaudrion Merrifield, born in Brighton in 1856, retained the name of her maternal grandfather, Colonel Victor Pierre-Jean de Gaudrion, of Saint-Malo in Brittany. Her father, barrister Frederick Merrifield, became Clerk to both East and West Sussex County Councils. He and his wife were NUWSS leader Millicent Garret Fawcett’s strongest supporters when she delivered her first suffrage speech in Brighton in 1870. Following her mother’s death in 1894, Flora remained at home with her father at 14 Clifton Terrace, with, according to the 1911 Census, a cook, parlourmaid and housemaid. In 1908 Flora became secretary of the Brighton and Hove Women’s Franchise Society, not only arranging meetings in the town itself, but undertaking ‘outreach’ along the coast and inland. The BHWFS became affiliated to the NUWSS and the meeting to inaugurate the Surrey, Sussex and Hampshire Federation of NUWSS branches was held at Flora’s home in 1910. Flora and fellow members attended NUWSS Council meetings and took part in NUWSS ‘demos’ in London, and Flora led the Brighton Road contingent in the July 1913 Great Suffragist Pilgrimage to the capital. At the outbreak of WWI, Flora organised a local relief committee, and in 1916 was joint secretary of Brighton’s Patriotic Housekeeping Exhibition, held under the auspices of the NUWSS. Following the partial enfranchisement of women in 1918, she became chair of the Brighton and Hove Union for Women’s Local Government and Equal Citizenship, the successor to the BHWFS . In 1920 she attended the 1920 International Women’s Suffrage Alliance Congress in Geneva, taking up the cause of the newly-formed League of Nations. When she resigned from the executive committee of the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship (the NUWSS's successor) in 1927, tribute was paid to her work ‘that extended over many years’. She died in Surrey in 1943. Contribute 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 Flora (de Gaudrion) Merrifield Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(-16391.4610585554 6590647.90861549) NUWSS https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/0785f3b2d8cd5d387c7301569e5eb747.png 409f585499c95b99776d7e9d385af046 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 Nurse Catherine Pine (standing) taking care of WSPU leader Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst (in bed) circa 1913. Source: Ref. 7JCC/O/02/092, The Women's Library Collection at LSE. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/026ca624241e87a5d5d57a57e0ddb836.jpg e91f853fb43e8143aefa1243069a03ca 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 Nurse Pine resists the 1911 census survey by boldly writing a protest message across her form. Source: The National Archives. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/f65a4782ede99ec3fef40fcf76518796.png b79fe8e5405d1ed59af8e80327dbe869 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 photograph of the nursing home at 9 Pembridge Gardens, Notting Hill, in 1914. Source and Copyright: The Museum of London, ID NN22859. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Nurse Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 46 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 9 Pembridge Gardens, London. Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census WSPU Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Resists Biographical Text Born in Maidstone, Catherine Emily Pine trained as a nurse at St Bartholomew’s Hospital between 1895-1897. She was described glowingly during training as ‘punctual, very kind and attentive, very patient and even tempered’ with Ward Sisters recording that she would make ‘a very good nurse’. She remained at St Bart’s working as a hospital Sister from 1900 until 1907. By 1908, Nurse Pine as she would become known, was running a nursing home in Notting Hill and was by then a member of the WSPU. She ran it with fellow WSPU and St. Bart’s trained nurse Gertrude Townend who was injured in a tussle with police in 1913 at Bow Baths Hall. In 1908, WSPU leader Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst’s son Harry who was frequently ill, was taken there for treatment as were other WSPU and sometimes family members. Sadly, Mrs Pankhurst's son Harry died there when he was readmitted two years later in 1910. The nursing home, situated by 1909 at 9 Pembridge Gardens, was used by suffragettes recovering from imprisonment, especially after the infamous ‘Cat and Mouse Act’ was passed in 1913 (see our Suffrage Glossary in Resources). In that year, Mrs Pankhurst was released from prison after hunger striking, and Nurse Pine became her devoted carer. However, due to press intrusion and constant police presence at the nursing home, Mrs Pankhurst was moved and cared for instead by Nurse Pine, at several different WSPU member homes (see images). When the government census survey was taken in April 1911, Nurse Pine ‘resisted’. She gave her patient details under protest, as well as her own name, but wrote across her census form in both black and red ink: ‘Above names at request. For the rest No Votes No Information’ (see images). In 1915, WSPU leader Mrs Pankhurst set up a hostel to care for ‘illegitimate’ war babies and by 1917, this was situated at 50 Clarendon Road, London. Nurse Pine took joint charge there later joining Mrs Pankhurst in America in 1920. The two then relocated to Canada along with three of the adopted ‘war babies’. However, in 1923 Nurse Pine returned to England when the dynamics of her relationship with Mrs Pankhurst altered with the arrival of her daughter Christabel and her adopted daughter. Nurse Pine never saw Mrs Pankhurst again, but the two kept in touch by letter. When Mrs Pankhurst died, Nurse Pine was at her funeral. Much of Nurse Pine’s suffrage memorabilia is now with the Museum of London. Key source: Elizabeth Crawford, The Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928 (London, 1999). 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 Catherine Pine Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(-21869.2705607483 6711944.0057773) WSPU https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/e9473e104bd86b4d973c26ac764b25e3.png 81b02a7945f34e72e1875b80164ce3a9 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 Ellen Pitfield's list of arrests from a Home Office Index of Suffragettes Arrested. Source and Copyright: The National Archives. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/aa660254eb89c42c26cb3c57e6f8e546.jpg ff015337c563bb41d1513eea2b5f398a 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 Photograph of the New Women's Hospital where Ellen worked and resided on Euston Road, circa 1899. Source: The Wellcome Collection. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/8f88cd96a0dc650ed8339505537b4fcc.jpg 7425d7240592fc4f45f54b15a77f6be8 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 Two wards at the New Hospital for Women from a magazine, 1899. Source: The Wellcome Collection. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/0e7e9aa14459f901f453b8a3feb1aaa5.jpg 92dfe73ac1f4785bf90478a24c883eb6 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 Ellen's 1911 census return. Source: The National Archives. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/d756f5f2d1e9e602b36514d1f5fdb5cc.jpg 52b27513c88d6828465678d0d5bf7ad0 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 Soldier to the Death'. A transcript of Ellen's letter to WSPU leader Emmeline Pankhurst, 1912. Source: The National Archives. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/84918023d2093057475927e6cde2f6b0.jpg 4bc1936b2c82a327287882a3c0ce1953 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 Home Office Record of Ellen's final act of militancy at the Post Office in 1912. Source and Copyright: The National Archives (Ref HO144-1193-220196-1-2330086). Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Nurse 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 New Hospital for Women, Euston Road, London. Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census WSPU Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Resists Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 43 Biographical Text Ellen Pitfield was a trained nurse and midwife and probably joined the WSPU in 1908. She subsequently became a fully-fledged WSPU suffragette and was arrested five times during the women’s suffrage campaign for militant activity – twice in 1909, twice in 1910 and once more in 1912 (see image). In 1909, Ellen went on hunger strike during a term of imprisonment and was awarded the WSPU’s Hunger Strike Medal. When she was arrested in November 1910, it was at an infamous protest that became known as ‘Black Friday’ because of the violence meted out upon suffragettes by the police. Ellen was injured in the scuffles that broke out. In 1911, when the census survey was taken, Ellen was working and residing at the New Hospital for Women, Euston Road, London. The hospital was originally founded by Britain’s first female doctor, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, and occupied several premises before finding a home in Euston Road (see images). Ellen appears on the census survey taken there but resists, refusing to give her information. The census official writes: ’Suffragette – Refused Information’. Subsequently, Ellen discovered she had cancer and would not recover. Her commitment to the suffragette cause is really captured by what she did next despite her diagnosis. A demonstration was organised by the WSPU on the 4th March 1912 in support of which Ellen wrote to WSPU leader Emmeline Pankhurst declaring herself 'A Soldier to the death'. She then set fire to a basket of wood shavings at the General Post Office, also breaking a window there, and gave herself up to police to raise publicity for the cause. That month, she was sentenced to six months imprisonment and was carried from court to the prison hospital. Prison authorities aware of her condition, asked Ellen to swear an undertaking against further militant action in consideration of her early release. She refused but expressed that ‘it was not in her to offend again’. A petition ensued for Ellen's release which likely happened in May. She was cared for upon her release by (see) WSPU Nurse Catherine Pine and Gertrude Townend at their nursing home at 9 Pembridge Gardens, Notting Hill. She died a few months later in August, 1912. Sources: Various documents courtesy of the National Archives. 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 Ellen Pitfield Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(-15053.7347378789 6714840.26613858) WSPU https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/4467ed178c39f3803723051e8e8bd266.jpg 9beffd8bcceb14d7ee98ec6acff7e1d9 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 Ellen Chapman in the Worthing Gazette, 1916. Source & Copyright: West Sussex Library Service www.westsussexpast.org.uk https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/6f0524c274141e61390e0f9da1698e38.jpg 1398fd6a417f7403263233e55c8271f2 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://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/b03da5b298f8ede881acf06a04df4f1e.JPG 26ba2b7a5dbfbb65b7d830ea30952977 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 Worthing Women's Franchise Banner. Source: Courtesy of Worthing Museum and Art Gallery. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/484ff93e5fb90c3a72649c79a1e68afa.JPG b5d46ba6430482203746178eaca3ce40 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 Surrey, Sussex and Hampshire banner. Source: Courtesy Worthing Museum and Art Gallery. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 64 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Widow Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census The Shrubbery, Broadwater, Worthing, 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 Occupation None given Biographical Text Ellen Chapman was born Ellen Preston in 1847 in Clerkenwell where her father was a wholesale druggist. The 1911 Census lists her as Ellen Chapman, widow, living at The Shrubbery, Broadwater, Worthing, with four servants. The Shrubbery since demolished, stood on the site of the current fire station in Ardsheal Road. A member of the Conservative Women’s Franchise Association, the Catholic Women’s Suffrage Society, and the NUWSS, Ellen became President of the Worthing Women’s Franchise Society, formed at a meeting she arranged in November 1909, chaired by Brighton’s (see) Flora de Gaudrion Merrifield. The number of members enrolled enabled affiliation to the NUWSS and in June 1910 Worthing joined the Brighton and Cuckfield branches in the Surrey, Sussex and Hampshire NUWSS Federation. Ellen chaired meetings, took part in deputations, debates and suffragist theatrical entertainments, held fund-raising fetes in her garden, and repeatedly sent repudiations of militancy to the local press. She attended the International Women’s Suffrage Alliance Congress in Budapest in July 1913. Thanks to her, the WWFS was able to rent town centre premises, first at 31 Warwick Street, then at 1 Warwick Street, opposite the Town Hall. In 1911 Ellen became Broadwater Town Councillor, elected unopposed. Four years later she was appointed Mayor, but the Council subsequently decided that while the country was at war a woman should not hold such a high office. Towards the end of 1918, as President of the Worthing branch of the National Council of Women, she chaired the meeting announcing the formation, under the auspices of the NCW, of a Worthing branch of the Women’s Citizens Association, then chaired the inaugural meeting of the Worthing WCA. In 1919 she became one of the first two women West Sussex County Councillors. When Ellen did become the first woman Mayor in Sussex in 1920, she was reappointed for a second year, and, under the League of Help scheme to aid areas of France devastated by the War, instigated the town’s adoption of Richebourg L’Avoue, where so many Sussex soldiers had died. Championed by the Worthing Gazette as having ‘contributed such conspicuous sanity towards the feminist question in particular’, she sadly died too soon to see women granted equal franchise in 1928. 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 Ellen Chapman Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(-42170.7174133824 6591146.30201326) NUWSS https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/adc9b1474a69c7ac8c5bf4e334f1b445.jpg 56c6406f02c9b8934e0cba912d063060 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: Courtesy the National Archives. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/b76fc16cdf9ea9fb6ce187dfeb7f9b7e.jpg d3fd23b0855bd9f5ca5507141b1f170b 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 Illustration of Louisa Churchman created & submitted by Malcom Bull. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation None given Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 43 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 5 Middle Street, Horsham 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 Louisa Jane Churchman (1868-1943), eldest daughter of a Horsham grocer and wine merchant, was living in 1911 at 5 Middle Street with her widowed mother, sister Emmeline, and three ‘domestics’. In January 1910 she and her mother were on the platform at a crowded meeting at the King’s Head addressed by Florence Basden and Annette Verrall, chair and treasurer respectively of the Brighton and Hove Women’s Franchise Society. That summer, at a meeting at Horsham Park chaired by Brighton’s (see) Flora de Gaudrion Merrifield, the Horsham Suffrage Society, was formed. As default secretary of the HSS, Louisa resigned from the local Women Liberals Association, of which she was treasurer, because of the Liberal Government’s disdain of the Conciliation Bill offering to enfranchise single women householders and actively supported Florence de Fonblanque’s Horsham-based suffragist Marchers Qui Vive. In 1914 Louisa and Emmeline resigned as secretaries of the local Church of England Temperance Society because of the exclusion of women from the Chichester Diocesan Synod, declaring that they would henceforth devote themselves to women’s suffrage. When the NUWSS subsequently announced its suspension of political work, it was to Louisa Churchman that local offers of personal service were to be made. War work undertaken by HSS ranged from fruit bottling to fund-raising for the NUWSS Scottish Women’s Hospitals. Following the partial granting of the vote to women in February 1918, Louisa formed Horsham branches of the Women Citizen’s Association, affiliated to the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship, and of the League of Nations Association. In the 1920s, now a committed Labour Party member, she identified herself with Labour Parliamentary candidates. In 1923 she became Horsham’s first woman JP; in 1934 she was elected a County Councillor. On her death in 1943 tributes filled the front and back pages of the West Sussex County Times. Contributed by: Independent researcher and 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 Louisa Churchman Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(-36602.2938456964 6632314.90142488) NUWSS https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/cfc6b4e47c2da7bd02ac639ff8be7904.jpg d7036483b4bb0333989a10f744d225de 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 Emma circa 1910. Source & Copyright: Wolverhampton Archives. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/fac07d460235ce0252ca6da9be6d5640.png 9a26943a20e50ae2d4a1ed006c603bc2 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 Emma's name in the Home Office 'Suffragettes Arrested Index'. Source: courtesy of The National Archives. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/77b7f4eb224ad76aeebc6cdc56a09953.jpg 7651b35f0bc2ddf7ef7e53bed7867df1 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: Courtesy of the National Archives. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/a0461e4a1f0903e6d303f2cc26c8659b.png f0af62150f3951e67d004b07aa7cf05f 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 Poem Emma wrote in Stafford prison in 1911. Source: The Vote, 15 July, 1911. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation None given Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 43 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Married Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Kelmscott, 225 Hordern Road, Wolverhampton Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census WFL Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Complies Biographical Text Emma Sproson (nee Lloyd) was born in West Bromwich in 1867. She left school at 13 years of age to work in domestic service. The family moved to Daisy Bank, Bilston in 1875, where Emma took an interest in socialism and feminism and educated herself. She joined the Independent Labour Party (ILP) in Wolverhampton in 1895, where she met its secretary, Frank Sproson, a postman whom she married in 1896. In 1906, Frank invited Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst of the suffragette WSPU to Wolverhampton to speak, and Emma joined the WSPU the same year. Frank was fully supportive of Emma's Votes for Women activity. In February 1907, Emma took part in a suffragette march to Parliament Square, London, where more than 700 suffragettes attempted to force their way into the Houses of Parliament. Sixty-seven women were arrested, including Emma, and served 14 days in Holloway Prison. At that time she had two young children at home and a six month old baby so going to prison represented a huge sacrifice. She was arrested in a further raid on the House of Commons on 18 March 1907, along with (see) Elizabeth Price. On her prison experience she wrote: 'I measured my cell with my feet, and the shoes they gave me were too big and different sizes. My dress was a coarse grey linsey, covered with broad arrows… The bed was coarse, fibre mattress and pillow, placed on a plank 4” from the floor… Near the top of the thick iron door, such as you see in a large safe, was a space that converged to a glass-like bull’s eye. When I heard a click, I knew that a Warder was using it for observation… I did not sleep the first night.’ On her release she held a meeting in Wolverhampton, and toured around the Black Country arguing against women's low wages and poor working conditions. When there was a break within the WSPU in 1907, Emma joined the resulting breakaway society the Women's Freedom League (WFL) becoming Wolverhampton branch secretary and a member of its National committee by 1908 undertaking extensive countrywide speaking tours. She likely broke from the WSPU because of its split with the ILP. In 1911, she complied with the government census survey but by then she was also a member of the Women's Tax Resistance League and so was arrested and imprisoned in May that year for refusing to pay her dog license. She went on hunger strike in prison when she was not classed as a political prisoner. Her dog was sadly shot by the police. In 1912, and disillusioned by suffrage politics, she resigned from the WFL and afterwards took little interest in the movement, focusing instead upon improving social conditions. Emma also known as “Red Emma”, later became the first woman Councillor for Wolverhampton Borough Council when she was elected for Dunstall Ward in 1921 and was re-elected in 1924. Emma died in 1936. Contributed by Heidi McIntosh, Senior Archivist, Wolverhampton City Archives. Please note: Wolverhampton Archives is currently closed due to Covid 19 and so document access is restricted. However, we will be adding more images in relation to Emma Sproson including prison accounts and letters as soon as possible. Additional Sources: Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928 (London); Nicola Gould https://nicolagauld.wordpress.com/2015/02/23/emmas-prison-experience/ 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 Emma Sproson Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(-239389.114013397 6909058.29375488) WFL https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/32354c308289ba5727383433274e1c21.jpg 8dce129dbe4a3b4b6eab2ead314ab833 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 Elizabeth's census in which she describes herself as 'Household drudge'. Source: courtesy The National Archives. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/4860192142a2422874bee8bea8c4a53d.jpg 3e97bc641eb94b3e556c08bef075154f 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: Express & Star, 21 March, 1907. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation 'Household Drudge' Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 32 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Married Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 8 Chequer Street, Penn Fields, Wolverhampton Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census WFL Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Resists Biographical Text Elizabeth Price (nee Matthews) was involved in the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) as well as the Women’s Freedom League (WFL). She was born in Worcester in 1879, and married Arthur Price there in 1898. Arthur became a printer with Whitehead Brothers, St John’s Square, Wolverhampton, and the couple and their children were living at 8 Chequer Street, Penn Fields, in 1911. Elizabeth was associated with the Labour movement in Wolverhampton, but unlike (see) Emma Sproson remained relatively unknown until, on Wednesday 20 March 1907, she was arrested along with Emma and 74 other suffragettes following a further raid on the House of Commons. The names of all the women were listed in the Express & Star the following day. The newspaper also interviewed Elizabeth’s husband, Arthur, who said that the first he had heard about his wife being arrested was in the morning’s newspapers (see images). Asked whether he minded about what his wife was doing, he stated “Not in the least; I believe in it!” He also dispelled the myth that their home was neglected while his wife carried on her suffragette duties, as “My wife would not have gone to London if she had not known the home would be looked after.” By 1911, it is likely that Elizabeth like Emma Sproson had moved away from the WSPU toward the WFL. When the 1911 census was taken, Elizabeth was present and recorded but she is classed as a resister on the map to acknowledge her powerful statement under occupation as 'household drudge'. This was not an occupation that census officials would have recognised as legitimate, yet it was one that many women would have understood. Contributed by Heidi McIntosh, Senior Archivist, Wolverhampton Archives. 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 Elizabeth Price Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(-238822.052527375 6903950.63976965) WFL https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/f69aa9641fb3f5be5654fb8e9c09a602.jpg e61f6d74d257c26711bbddafa1843cf4 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 Caroline becomes a Magistrate in Wolverhampton. Source: Wolverhampton Chronicle, 1 Sept, 1920. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/5cd8e2a1a26bf777f43c32a3951e2dce.jpg 7552cb75c360a55007b0cfa95b550630 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 Callear family census form for 1911. Source: courtesy The National Archives. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation None given Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 56 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Married Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 114 Upper Villiers Street, Wolverhampton 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 Caroline Jones was born in Kennington, Surrey, in 1855, the daughter of Edwin Jones. She married Samuel Boutcher Callear, an insurance agent, on 31 May 1881. The couple had five children – Emily (born 1883), Percy, Mary, Annie, Dorothy and Florence (born 1892). By 1901, the family were living at 9 Hunter Street, Wolverhampton, and by 1911 they were at 114 Upper Villiers Street. All five children became teachers. Caroline, Florence and Emily became members of the Wolverhampton Women’s Suffrage Society. Caroline served on the committee from 1912 onward, and Emily was actively involved in collecting subscriptions and delivering notices in the district of Blakenhall. Caroline was also a member of the Insurance Committee and of the Allowances Committee of the Pensions Committee, as well as serving as president of the Women’s Section of the local Labour party. On 31 August 1920, Caroline made history by becoming the first woman to be sworn in as a magistrate for the borough of Wolverhampton, taking her oath before the Mayor, Councillor T. Henn. As reported in the Wolverhampton Chronicle the following day, the Chairman of the Bench, Councillor J. F. Beckett, welcomed her, but stated that “there were cases heard in that Court of such a character that he had no doubt Mrs Callear would prefer not to sit.” She responded by saying that “she had always believed that women should take their full share in citizenship…She did not expect to find the work very pleasant; she expected it to be very painful; but it was work that had to be done.” Caroline died on 20 May 1939, when the value of her effects was £180 18s. Contributed by Heidi McIntosh, Senior Archivist, Wolverhampton Archives. 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 Caroline Callear Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(-237438.239937516 6903897.15832109) NUWSS https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/252d9d4cd21d2270b91e6a2399611f9e.jpg 86989abedd8b6680a7a34c9bde8928d7 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 Charlotte's face was splashed with sulphurated hydrogen thrown by youths at a suffrage meeting. Source: Express & Star, 4 March, 1908. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/bcd8b42ad3a8efe2b3651b34f8a78b55.jpg 8d440b21f83e7600a91d81d36382ddab 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 Charlotte's 1911 census form. Source: courtesy The National Archives. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation See below Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 52 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Married Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 107 Waterloo Road, Wolverhampton 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 The secretary of the Wolverhampton Women’s Suffrage Society, the local branch of the NUWSS, was a Charlotte Eliza Taylor (nee Butler), born in Rugby in 1859. She had married Frederick David Taylor in Stourbridge in 1882. In 1911, the couple were living at 107 Waterloo Road (now extensively redeveloped). While Charlotte did not follow the suffragette trend of spoiling the census return by being anonymous or refusing to be counted, in the entry for her trade or occupation was written “Housekeeper to above” (i.e. her husband), which had been crossed out, indicating that she was keen to highlight her equal role with her husband. Charlotte appeared in a newspaper report in 1908 (see image) about 'Rowdy Scenes' at a Wolverhampton suffrage meeting held at the Co-operative Hall in Stafford Street. Teresa Billington-Greig, one of the founders of the Women’s Freedom League (WFL) was the speaker and a group of young men at the rear of the room were laughing, jeering and shouting throughout. Mrs Billington-Greig, ignoring the commotion, carried on with her speech regardless, even highlighting the attitude of “green and callow youths who failed to understand the liberties which they inherited, and for which their fathers fought and died”. Following this statement, one of the young men threw a test-tube containing sulphurated hydrogen which hit Charlotte Taylor in the face, filling the air with a pungent sulphuric odour. Charlotte screamed out as 'a crimson stream' ran down the side of her face and she was escorted home. One of the stewards at the event, wrote to the local newspaper the Express & Star to complain about a lack of interference from the police, who did not assist in breaking up the hooligans. Contributed by: Heidi McIntosh, Senior Archivist, Wolverhampton Archives. 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 Charlotte Taylor Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(-237274.600286073 6908032.03173534) NUWSS