23 10 286 https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/f92dc5e70363a1db9f7e055fba166d46.jpg 573fdffdf6f2c08c4b735cce6c4bcd7c 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 by Douglas Miller 'Suffragists at Clayton'. Source: courtesy of www.sussexpostcards.info. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/ea86fba8b6ccfc86136008dcdd5991a9.jpeg 740f4016602874bb16500c74919fe18b 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 by Douglas Miller 'Suffragists at Burgess Hill'. 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Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Photographer Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 37 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 9 Boltro Road, Haywards Heath, West 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 Photographer Douglas Miller (1874-1961) was a prominent member of the Mid Sussex progressive Congregationalist community, and secretary of the Haywards Heath Liberal and Radical Club. He, his wife Kate, and her sister Lillian Peerless, were among the ‘principal workers’ named in the Mid Sussex Times report of the celebration of the election to Parliament in January 1906 of Liberal suffragist (see) Charles Corbett. The Liberal and Radical Club did not always live up to its name. When, in March 1913, Douglas Miller proposed, in a Club debate conducted exclusively by men, that the Parliamentary franchise be extended to women and men on equal terms, ‘everyone voted against the motion except the mover’. A few months later the NUWSS Great Suffragist Pilgrimage, converging on London from starting points across the country, was Douglas Miller’s opportunity to contribute to the documentation of suffrage activity in this part of Sussex. On Monday 21 July 1913, Kate Miller, a committee member of the Haywards branch of the Cuckfield and Central Sussex Women’s Suffrage Society, joined Brighton and Hove, Worthing, Littlehampton and Seaford suffragists to set off up the Brighton Road, marching with them as far as Burgess Hill. Douglas Miller met them at Clayton where he took the first of a series of four photographs, showing the marchers sporting NUWSS sashes, haversacks and hat decorations, and carrying the drum used to accompany the singing of stirring suffrage songs. Could his wife Kate be the foreground figure on the left? Bringing up the rear is the horse-drawn covered van that carried the Pilgrims’ luggage and campaign literature to be distributed en route. The Pilgrims then paused for lunch and waiting for them were Cuckfield and Central Sussex members led by (see) Edith Bevan. Douglas Miller’s second photograph shows them all gathered in front of the van, its slogan NATIONAL UNION OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE SOCIETIES NON-PARTY NON-MILITANT, now visible. Among the cyclists is (see) Flora de Gaudrion Merrifield, of the Brighton and Hove Women’s Franchise Society. Two policemen are present: Police Superintendent Anscombe of Haywards Heath is taking over as escort from his Brighton colleague. The third photograph shows the meeting held later that afternoon at the Reformers’ Tree in Burgess Hill. From the lorry used as a platform, the crowd was addressed by Alys Russell and Rica Timpany of the NUWSS. Chairman was Thomas Meates at whose home the Pilgrims had just stopped for tea. They had now been joined by the Eastbourne contingent whose banner is propped against the tree. The last photograph was taken in Cuckfield High Street on the Tuesday morning after the Pilgrims’ overnight stop in the town and an 8am service in its Congregational Church. Edith Bevan is in front, immediately behind Superintendent Anscombe, looking back to check that all are ready to continue up the road to London. Specially named by the Mid Sussex Times among ‘the upwards of 70’ present are (see) Marie Corbett, (see) Louisa Martindale and Flora de Gaudrion Merrifield. ‘Many Cuckfield residents accompanied them for a short distance, despite the wet weather.’ Researched & contributed by independent writer and researcher Frances Stenlake. Sources: Mid Sussex Times Brighton Gazette (archive). 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 Douglas Miller 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(-11862.538895752332 6621954.426668265) NUWSS https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/98132d1d38b568be9b07d73a0fd1af37.jpeg bd819316f58931ecdd24abb8e22c2a46 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 Lady Eleanor Cecil. Source: Danehill Parish Historical Society Archive. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation None 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 Gale, Chelwood Gate, Danehill, Sussex. Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census CUWFA & NUWSS Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Complies Biographical Text Lady Eleanor Lambton, a daughter of the Earl of Durham, married Lord Robert Cecil, a son of the Marquess of Salisbury, in 1899. When the formation of the Conservative and Unionist Women’s Franchise Association (CUWFA) was announced in November 1908, ‘Lady Robert Cecil’ was one of its titled Vice-Presidents. A few weeks later, she was among the ‘influential ladies’ who signed a protest, published widely in the Press, against the WSPU disruption of the Women Liberals Federation meeting in the Albert Hall on 5th December at which Chancellor Lloyd George was to make a statement about women’s suffrage. In London, Eleanor as chair of the committee of the Marylebone and Paddington branch of the CUWFA, introduced a scheme to canvass municipal women voters in the interests of women’s suffrage and induce those who were Conservative to join the CUWFA. On 17th June 1911 Eleanor marched under the CUWFA banner in the ‘Coronation’ suffrage procession from the Embankment to the Albert Hall. In the autumn of 1911, to promote the formation of a Hitchin, Stevenage and District branch of the CUWFA, she addressed a meeting in Hitchin, where her husband would soon be elected MP. She also became a Vice-President of the Letchworth and District Women’s Suffrage Society. Chelwood Gate, Danehill, was the Cecils’ Sussex home from 1899, and in May 1911 and November 1912 Eleanor led Central Sussex Women’s Suffrage Society deputations to the East Grinstead constituency Conservative MP Henry Cautley. She chaired NUWSS branch meetings at Crowborough and Heathfield, was one of the patrons of the Sweated Industries Exhibition staged in Haywards Heath by the Central Sussex Women’s Suffrage Society in February 1912, and opened the corresponding East Grinstead Women’s Suffrage Society exhibition a few months later. The Cecils took part in the inauguration of the North Sussex branch of the CUWFA in Lindfield in April 1913. Eleanor continued to appear on Central Sussex Women’s Suffrage Society platforms however, presiding over the historic visit of NUWSS President Millicent Garrett Fawcett, to Cuckfield’s Queen’s Hall on 20th July 1914, and chairing the East Grinstead Women’s Suffrage Society AGM in January 1915. The welfare of women being of paramount interest, in 1916 Eleanor and other leading suffragists formed the Women’s Local Government Society to promote the appointment of women to committees and sub-committees concerned with the care of mothers and young children. Active in the National Council of Women, she was on the committee that organised its four-day conference at the Brighton Dome in 1924. After the War she resumed her travels to Canada and other ‘British dominions’ to study the living conditions of girls brought out by the Society for the Overseas Settlement of British Women. Eleanor wrote regularly for the monthly CUWFA Review and other periodicals. In an article in the Quarterly Review of January 1913 on the training of the notoriously anti-suffrage Queen Victoria, she concluded, ‘How the Queen herself reconciled her active exercise of authority with her views about feminine duty is a problem before which curiosity must remain unsatisfied.’ Sources: Mid Sussex Times; Kent and Sussex Courier; West Sussex Gazette; Worthing Herald; Worthing Gazette; Conservative Women’s Franchise Association Review; Votes for Women; Common Cause; Women’s Franchise; Marylebone Mercury; The Queen; Illustrated London News. Researched & contributed by independent writer and researcher 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 Eleanor Cecil (Lady) 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(1762.0762195214445 6631570.650800052) CUWFA https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/9cb658f48f70b625e2b00ab45854f84b.jpg fb71c9e1bc825931149e28075bd1f98d 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 Lord Robert Cecil, 1919. Source: ©Lafayette/Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Politician Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 47 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 Gale, Chelwood Gate, Danehill, Sussex Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census MLWS Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Complies Biographical Text Before entering Parliament in 1906 as MP for East Marylebone, Lord Robert Cecil practised as a lawyer, and in 1909, as a member of the Men’s League for Women’s Suffrage (MLWS) unsuccessfully defended Evelina Haverfield when she was arrested with Emmeline Pankhurst and other WSPU members for trying to enter the House of Commons to petition Prime Minister Herbert Asquith. Lord Robert Cecil took part in CWFA meetings in London and the Home Counties, and in 1911 and early 1912 spoke across Sussex - at Horsted Keynes, at the Horsham Suffrage Society’s first AGM, at a Central Sussex Women’s Suffrage Society public meeting in Burgess Hill, and at Forest Row - to promote the Conciliation Bill. This would only give the vote to single women householders, who had been able to vote in local elections since1869, but Lord Robert Cecil argued that the principle of votes for women could later be extended. He was against women MPS: they would be physically unable to endure the ‘exhausting exertions’ in the House of Commons! When the Conciliation Bill was rejected by the House of Commons in March 1912, Lord Robert Cecil sympathised with women’s anger, and expressed vehement objections to harsh prison sentences and forced feeding. He continued, however, to advise the avoidance of militancy and to advocate a ‘moderate and conservative admission of women to the franchise’. In March 1913, the East Grinstead branch of the MLWS was founded, with Lord Robert Cecil and Charles Corbett among its members. In 1916 and 1917, in answer to deputations asking about provision for women’s suffrage in proposed electoral reform legislation, Lord Robert Cecil insisted that he would not assent to any substantial increase in the number of men voters unless this Bill included some measure of enfranchisement for women. Following the enfranchisement in February 1918 of women over 30 who were already local electors or the wives of local electors, Lord Robert Cecil introduced a Bill to make women eligible to stand for Parliament. Passed in November 1918, in time for the General Election the following month, this created the anomaly that women Parliamentary candidates need only be 21. When the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Bill, to enable women to enter such professions as the law, was debated in the House of Commons in 1919, Lord Robert Cecil argued that it should include equal voting rights with men, enfranchising all women over 21, but the Government refused to grant this. In 1922, therefore, Lord Robert Cecil introduced a Bill to extend the franchise to women on the same terms as men, but it would take until 1928 for this to be achieved. Meanwhile, in 1925, as the newly installed Rector of Aberdeen University, Lord Robert Cecil’s first official duty was, appropriately, to open the hall of the new University Women’s Union. He told his cheering audience that he had always been in favour of the enfranchisement of women: women should take their full share of citizenship, as electors for Parliament and as members of the House of Commons. Sources: Hansard; Marylebone Mercury; Westminster Gazette; Mid Sussex Times; Kent and Sussex Courier; Sussex Express; West Sussex County Times; Scotsman. Researched & contributed by independent writer and researcher 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 Robert Cecil (Lord) 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(1762.0762195214445 6631570.650800052) MLWS https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/cdde124b9429c1a33939cd0c93b437a4.jpg c34a847de70c4cd0239354c438b7fb66 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 Mary Benson's home at Tremans (or Treemans) Horsted Keynes, Sussex. Photograph taken 1932. Source: courtesy www.horstedkeynes.com https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/b5c910694d935f39895de3be9873f3ec.jpg 9e3a75e461eecc688ea8ba34ac866d5d 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 Mary Benson, Lucy Tait and others in Tremans garden. Source: courtesy www.horstedkeynes.com Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation None Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 70 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 Tremans, Horsted Keynes, Sussex Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census CUWFA & NUWSS Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Complies Biographical Text Mary Benson (1841-1918) as the widow of Edward Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury, was as much solicited as was any titled lady to lend her name to suffragist organisations and causes. With her companion, Lucy Tait, daughter of her husband’s predecessor as Archbishop of Canterbury, she came to live at Tremans, Horsted Keynes, in 1899. In 1902, she was invited by Marie Corbett to speak on women’s suffrage at a Conference of the Sussex Union of Women’s Liberal Associations at Horsted Keynes. Sending apologies, she said that, had she been able to attend, she would have spoken on this subject as both she and the late Archbishop had the cause greatly at heart. The following year she was reported to be ‘taking up the claims of her sex’ regarding the proposed National Church Council. She objected to the decision to limit to men the right of voting for lay representatives to sit on this and urged ‘those who wished for a fair and representative franchise to do all in their power to bring home to Church people at large the gravity of the question’. When the Conservative and Unionist Women’s Franchise Association (CUWFA) was formed in 1909, Mary Benson joined ladies of the nobility, including Eleanor Cecil, as one of its Vice-Presidents. In 1911, she and Lucy Tait attended the meeting of the Horsted Keynes branch of the Central Sussex Women’s Suffrage Society addressed by Lady Betty Balfour, a fellow Vice-President of the CUWFA. Again, with Lady Eleanor Cecil, Mary Benson agreed to be named as one of a list of eminent patrons of two exhibitions staged in Haywards Heath by Central Sussex Suffragists: of Sweated Industries in 1912 and of Women’s Handicrafts in 1913. In April 1913, she and both Lord and Lady Robert Cecil became Vice-Presidents of the newly formed North Sussex branch of the CUWFA. The value of Mary Benson’s identification with the suffrage cause reflected her social status: the news from Horsted Keynes in the Mid Sussex Times of 24th February 1914, was that Mrs Benson and Miss Tait had dined at Lambeth Palace that Monday evening with the King and Queen. Sources: Mid Sussex Times; Conservative Women’s Franchise Association Review. Researched and contributed by independent writer and researcher, 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 Mary Benson 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(-3928.4648295477778 6625340.688421105) CUWFA https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/cd5237a167eb303e2b53ce3e140d4b09.png dcb929e26366a3345d3a351f9228acf8 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 Vera ‘Jack’ Holme (left) with fellow performer in cross-dress, 1905. Courtesy of The Women's Library at LSE. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/6a7eb3bd652bf8a14440c5ad4d45b383.png 1d40020f5bbaeb493b36e6f992557fe4 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 Vera (left in seated centre group) with fellow suffragettes circa 1910. Courtesy The Women's Library at LSE. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/ab0a4c1edf2a43d78cb96df79880e638.png 39a266103ffece2efa001c32b14baa8e 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 Vera working as WSPU chauffeur circa 1910-11. Courtesy The Women's Library at LSE. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/cd96f321abc6ac257846db6beb5168a5.png a709e9b77872711801d363ecea98ee4f 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 Peace Cottage, Brendon, North Devon. Source: https://www.geograph.org.uk/ https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/fa1e26760121513500271dce9eff78d8.jpg f18bb04a875ff688ff566e9a19a68f07 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 Acrostic love poem from Vera to 'Eve' Haverfield. Courtesy The Women's Library at LSE. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/bd716b31bfc89ef02c1e2883da54f090.png faba4bebdb40d90fd7a478b380fca5c1 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 Holloway Prison cell sketch by Vera after her arrest in 1911. Courtesy The Women's Library at LSE. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/bc18edc3cd453ca75fdd3d329099d46a.png 13b023759cd6c3624339d7687edff804 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 Vera (left) and Evelina (centre) in SWH uniform, 1916. Courtesy The Women's Library at LSE. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/db1e5ee55dee42169c37f3f143033598.jpg 0090557c188dc16a583761562d3765bc 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 Vera with artists Dorothy Johnstone & Anne Finlay. Courtesy The Women's Library at LSE. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/4722b25225b719040a5cb3de7d74e239.png 7e6c553540858514a8ec8b4f3983ad96 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 Vera in her study, 1950. Courtesy The Women's Library at LSE. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation WSPU chauffeur Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 30 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 Peace Cottage, Brendon, North Devon Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census WSPU & AFL Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Evades Biographical Text Vera Holme (1881-1969) was born in Lancashire. She received a small allowance from her father, a timber merchant, but was required to make her own living. Little is known about her education, but she was an accomplished singer and violinist and set her mind to a career on stage. She decided to pursue life as an actor and singer and quickly made her name as ‘Jack’ Holme performing a popular cross-dressing music hall act (see images). At some point in 1908, Vera joined the suffrage movement, as part of the Actresses Franchise League (open to anyone involved with the theatrical profession) and the WSPU and was renowned for her feisty, irrepressible spirit. She was once described by Sylvia Pankhurst as ‘a noisy explosive young person, frequently rebuked by her elders for lack of dignity’. Little wonder then that later in the campaign, her fiery personality led her to join the Young Hot Bloods; a secretive society within the WSPU made up of younger members (aged under 30) who were fully prepared to undertake 'danger duty' for the WSPU and the cause. Vera took part in a variety of suffrage activities. In June 1909 on horseback, she presented the Prime Minister with a letter announcing the imminent arrival of a WSPU deputation. By August, she was chauffeur to WSPU’s leading figures Emmeline Pankhurst and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence and wore a WSPU-coloured uniform and peaked cap. Vera was especially proud of an ‘act’ she carried out with (see) Elsie Howey in Bristol. There, the two hid inside a musical organ in Calston Hall ready for a meeting chaired by Liberal minister Augustine Birrell on Land Tax. During the meeting Vera and Elsie repeatedly shouted out 'Votes for women!' and it took bemused officials several minutes to discover the women’s hiding place. In 1911, Vera likely evaded the 1911 census as she does not appear in the record. She was sent to prison for five days for throwing stones in November that year following the government’s torpedoing of the Conciliation bill, at which time she was temporarily staying in London’s Buckingham-Gate, probably at number 24 with Mrs Adeline Cecil Chapman, suffrage supporter and mother to suffragette Mildred Mansel with whom Vera was friends. However, Vera had by then met and fell in love with fellow suffragette (see) the Honourable Evelina Haverfield who had purchased ‘Peace Cottage’ in Devon in 1910 where the couple are located on our map. Although they led peripatetic lives - like many suffragettes dwelling briefly in various places across the country - Peace Cottage remained a constant in their lives together until Evelina’s death in 1920. No letters survive, but glimpses of the couple’s romantic relationship can be found in a surviving acrostic poem written to Evelina by Vera (see image) and in Vera’s gift of a bed they slept in at Peace Cottage with their initials EH and VH carved on alternate sides. When War broke out in 1914, Vera joined the Women's Volunteer Reserve and served in the Transport Unit of the Scottish Women's Hospital (SWH). She oversaw horses and trucks and was said to be an excellent mechanic and Evelina worked with her as an SWH administrator and overseer of the transport unit. As a couple they became deeply concerned with the plight of the Serbian people during their war work. Vera became administrator of a fund and home Evelina had founded for Serbian soldiers and orphans upon her death in 1920 as well as receiving £50 a year for life in Evelina's will. Later, Vera lived in Scotland sharing a home with artists (see images) Dorothy Johnstone and Anne Finlay where she also rekindled her love of the theatre. She put on local plays in Scotland and at the Barn Theatre in Smallhythe, Kent, overseen by former suffrage campaigner, friend, playwright and performer, Edith Craig. Vera died in 1969. Sources: Elizabeth Crawford, The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928 (London: 1999); Women's Library at LSE Papers & resources, esp., https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsehistory/2017/03/15/vera-jack-holme-one-of-the-stars-of-the-womens-library-collection/ & https://artsandculture.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/exhibit/vera-jack-holme-lse-library/jQLSqKybfPY_Kw?hl=en 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 Vera Holme 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(-419761.4207545197 6660086.594315042) WSPU https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/36fc8af4779bf17fa04f3f46b591547e.png bd94f28a2c9de37ca7eccf39e465c139 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 Evelina Haverfield circa 1910. Photograph by Lena Connell courtesy The Women's Library at LSE. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/e2ceb1ef5326dd5360c95392875bce85.jpg e938f20444bae6e20cbe3eb8f4c9353c 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 Evelina Haverfield in Court seated next to WSPU leader Mrs Pankhurst, 1909. Courtesy The Women's Library at LSE. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/1e619fbc813c4eee8ae3dc0cb501242c.png a709e9b77872711801d363ecea98ee4f 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 Evelina's 'Peace Cottage' in Brendon, North Devon, used by she and Vera Holme until Evelina's death in 1920. Source: https://www.geograph.org.uk/ https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/bc75aa4627b2b5d95323db92fec5d276.png 13b023759cd6c3624339d7687edff804 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 Evelina Haverfield (centre) in SWH uniform, with Vera Holme (left), 1916. Courtesy The Women's Library at LSE. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/27287a856c1ee91aa9f873d384fb74b3.jpg a07ea631305640dbb35dcd7e16372cc2 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 Evelina's well tended grave in Bajina Bashta, Serbia. Source: https://ljwanderer.livejournal.com/229543.html?thread=1109671 Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation None Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 44 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 Peace Cottage, Brendon, North Devon. 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 Evades Biographical Text Evelina Haverfield (1867-1920) was born Evelina Scarlett in Scotland and was the youngest daughter of the 3rd Baron Abinger. The young Evelina was a keen horsewoman and in 1887 married Major Henry Haverfield, moved to Dorset, and had two sons. After her husband’s death in 1895, she remarried, spending two years with her husband in South Africa founding a retirement camp for abandoned horses while her sister, a qualified doctor, investigated conditions in British concentration camps for a commission headed by Mrs Millicent Fawcett, later leader of the NUWSS. However, her second marriage was not a happy one. Evelina had kept the Haverfield name from her first marriage, and after returning to Dorset, the couple drifted apart. Evelina was likely a member of the local NUWSS branch in Dorset from the 1890s, but in 1908 switched allegiance to the WSPU. She gave generously to the society as well as donating to others and took part in varied suffrage events and activities. For instance, she was involved in the NUWSS caravan campaign in June 1909, where her horsemanship proved invaluable dealing with the caravan carthorses. Later that month, she was arrested after taking part in the WSPU deputation from Caxton Hall to the House of Commons and was defended by (see) Lord Robert Cecil (MLWS). In 1910, she was a mounted marshal for the WSPU processions on the 18th of June and 22nd of July; riding alongside (see) Vera Holme with whom she became romantically involved for the rest of her life. In November, she was arrested and charged with assaulting a policeman during the violent scuffles that broke out at a suffragette protest dubbed ‘Black Friday’. She was reported to have said about striking the policeman: ‘It was not hard enough. Next time I will bring a revolver’. Her fine was paid without her consent so she did not go to prison, but she did serve two weeks imprisonment shortly afterwards for attempting to break through a police cordon during a bout of window smashing following the government’s torpedoing of the Conciliation bill. In 1914, Evelina left the WSPU and joined Sylvia Pankhurst’s breakaway society the East London Federation of the WSPU becoming honorary treasurer, and later joined the United Suffragists. At the outbreak of War, she helped launch the Women’s Emergency Corps; founded the Women’s Volunteer Reserve becoming Commandant; served briefly as Commander-in-chief of the Women’s Reserve Ambulance Corps (forerunner of the WAAC); and in 1915, spent two years in Serbia and Russia in charge of the transport column of the Scottish Women’s Hospital to which Vera Holme belonged as driver and mechanic. In 1918, she co-founded with Flora Sandes a fund for promoting comforts for Serbian soldiers and prisoners and returned to Serbia to found an orphanage, dying shortly afterwards of pneumonia in 1920. Upon her death, Vera Holme became administrator of the fund and home Evelina had founded for Serbian orphans and was granted £50 a year for life in Evelina’s will. In 1929, a new health centre was built in Evelina’s memory in Bajina Bashta, Serbia, where she is buried (see image), and a street has been dedicated to her. Main source: Elizabeth Crawford, The Women’s 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 Evelina Haverfield (The Honourable) 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(-419761.4207545197 6660086.594315042) WSPU https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/ac37fd5d24a95ec060a6cb969271cae1.jpg 676a81ed2d6cb62b0900314bbc8151dc Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Artist 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 Single Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 27 Warwick Chambers, Pater Street, Kensington 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 1856 in Hertfordshire Mary was one of at least 6 children of Thomas Postlethwaite, a farmer and later slate merchant, and his wife also named Mary. Both Mary and her sisters set their mind to becoming artists and in 1880, Mary became a student at Derby School of Art (Derby was her mother’s hometown). By 1886, the sisters moved to London with their now retired parents and in 1890, Mary attended the Royal Academy Schools where she won first prize for her painting of a draped figure. She is known for her still life paintings, but these are very rarely found, and none appear to hang in any public collection. Her pathway into the women’s suffrage movement is unclear, but by 1908 she was helping to organise the artists section of the WSPU Women’s Sunday Procession to Hyde Park on the 21st of June 1908 and was a member of the WSPU Kensington branch. She was selected as part of a deputation to take a resolution to the House of Commons demanding an immediate measure to grant votes for women. In the ensuing scuffles, she was arrested with 29 other women, charged with obstruction, and sentenced to four weeks imprisonment. In 1911, she followed the census boycott as a member of the WSPU, writing on her census form ‘Didn’t count at the general election, so won’t be counted now’. There is no direct mention that she was involved in sewing banners or painting them for the cause, but it seems highly likely she did given the hub of artists at work in Kensington, many linked with the WSPU branch there. By 1913, she was Honorary Secretary of the Kensington branch and its was that year that her only known artistic contribution was made when she chalked pictures on pavements to raise funds for self-denial week. She resigned her position with the branch in 1913 when ruptures began to appear over the Kensington branch work with Sylvia Pankhurst in the East End of London, possibly because of the East End branch connections to socialist organisations and the tensions this caused with WSPU headquarters, later leading to Sylvia’s break with her mother and sister. In 1915, Mary became Honorary Secretary of the Kensington branch of the United Suffragists. Source: Elizabeth Crawford, Art and Suffrage: A Biographical Dictionary of Suffrage Artists (London, 2018). 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 Mary Postlethwaite 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(-22013.206662324003 6709912.765466266) WSPU https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/e3ed6fa274975c9de21b746008a1840f.jpg 23077bb77bd3a0378a5dd74fd3c7fdca 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 (centre) on balcony during the 1911 Women's Coronation Procession. Courtesy The Women's Library, LSE. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/194ac09a3f3aa94210a0a6ad08c19eba.jpg b9c377b4978aa78da0a755deadf1f324 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 walking with Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst, WSPU leader, on procession in 1908. Courtesy: The Women's Library, LSE. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/9685db0ec175e21b17d35deb6aa7cf2d.jpg b27d563bbfd5d8e72664d34ef2d92c65 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 Wolstenholme Elmy. Courtesy: The Women's Library, LSE. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/2366bfa3495c233b21614377c2a3fb2e.JPG 8b6cb7eff8b48f6005d8b76fad967ae1 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 'Buxton House' Elizabeth's home in Congleton. Source: Google Maps 2021. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/19194664e9bb63872180a5f4fd300ac5.jpg 617fc27b3a3947193834170fd1655e7a 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 1911 census form. Courtesy: The National Archives. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/6070b60d4ac08b010135a451204fe8d3.jpg 00392393dd30348d9240a7bd2fdcc949 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 Blue plaque mounted on Elizabeth's former home 'Buxton House' Congleton. Source: photograph by Olive Gray. 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 77 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 Buxton House, 23 Buxton Road, Congleton, Cheshire 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 Complies Biographical Text Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy (1833-1918) was born in Manchester. Her mother died when she was very young and her father, a Methodist Minister (who remarried to Elizabeth’s stepmother Mary Wolstenholme) also died when Elizabeth was around 10 years old. An orphan, she attended the Moravian school at Fulneck near Leeds, until the age of 16. Her desire to attend the newly founded Bedford College was quashed by her guardians, so she continued her education unassisted and worked as a governess. Later, using her inheritance, she opened a private girls' boarding school in Boothstown, and in May 1867, moved it to Congleton, Cheshire. One of her pupils was later suffragette Frances Rowe. Perhaps because of her own experiences, Elizabeth was committed to improving access and standards of education for women and girls. She joined the College of Preceptors in 1862, meeting Emily Davies, to campaign on this issue. In 1865, she founded the Manchester Schoolmistresses Association and in 1867 established the North of England Council for Promoting the Education of Women with Mrs Butler and Miss Clough. Their work led to the University Extension Movement and the delivery of lectures for women students in Cambridge, facilitating the foundation of Newnham College. Elizabeth Wolstenholme was an active campaigner for women's suffrage for more than 50 years. In 1865, she was honorary secretary and founder of the Manchester Committee for the Enfranchisement of Women with the purpose of collecting signatures for the first petition in support of women's enfranchisement in 1866. In 1868, she became the secretary of the Married Women's Property Committee and with Lydia Becker and Josephine Butler she founded, and became honorary secretary of, the Committee for Amending the Law in Points Injurious to Women. She gave up her school in 1871 and moved to London to work for the women's movement, lobbying Parliament regarding laws detrimental to women. Around this time, she started a free union with Ben Elmy. They shared secular values and lived together without benefit of marriage until 1874, when Elizabeth became pregnant. They decided to marry in a civil ceremony due to social pressure as their situation was considered scandalous. It threatened Elizabeth’s role in the suffrage movement and regardless of relenting to marry, she had to resign her position on the Married Women's Property Committee. The couple had a son Francis (or Frank). Ben Elmy died in 1906. In 1877, the women's suffrage campaign was centralised as the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies and in 1889, Elizabeth was a founding member (with Harriet McIlquham and Alice Cliff Scatcherd) of the Women's Franchise League, which she left to found the Women's Emancipation Union in 1891. She pressed the NUWSS to revitalize its campaign in the early twentieth century, offering help and services, but was frustrated by the lack of response. In 1903, Elizabeth was invited onto the executive committee of the WSPU. Now 70 years of age, she expressed a refreshed excitement about this “new wave” in the movement. She was supportive of militant action and took part in the WSPU Hyde Park rally in 1908, leading the ‘North country’ procession on the Euston Road with Mrs Pankhurst and ‘Lancashire lasses’ (see images). She took to a balcony for the Women’s Coronation Procession, on the 17th of June 1911 where a banner described her as ‘England’s Oldest Militant Suffragette’ (see images). Despite belonging to the WSPU at the time, Elizabeth complied with the government’s 1911 census rather than boycotting it, so we find her at home in Buglawton, Congleton, with her son. In 1912, she resigned from WSPU after her opinion of militancy changed, now feeling the moment was right for using constitutional methods once more. She was the only WSPU member to sign the public letter of protest against militancy that appeared in The Times on 23 July 1912. In 1913, Elizabeth became vice-president of the Tax Resistance League and gave her support to the Lancashire and Cheshire Textile and other Workers' Representation Committee headed by Esther Roper. Elizabeth died on 12 March 1918 in Manchester, sadly just six days after the Representation of the People Act received the royal assent granting the vote to some women. Despite her central role in campaigning for female suffrage and women’s rights throughout the 19th and early 20th century, her role was overlooked in suffrage histories for many years. This may have been a legacy of the scandal associated with her private life. Sources: Elizabeth Crawford, The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1966-1928 (London: 1999); Susan Kingsley Kent, Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860-1914 (1987); Lucy Bland, Banishing the Beast: English Feminism and Sexual Morality 1885-1914 (1995); Jill Liddington, Vanishing for the Vote: Suffrage, Citizenship and the Battle for the Census (Manchester: 2014). Contributed by Oihane Etayo (Warwick University) & Tara Morton 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 Wolstenholme Elmy 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(-245029.33865263467 7014367.456917796) WSPU https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/5c42f38f00a235fe0ee4ae73da5bc6dc.jpg bc7f219852b463174f2dce5a99062766 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 Ray in 1911 - the year she married and became Strachey. Source: © National Portrait Gallery, London. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/0985db152dab81aa3d34f3bcb8113f47.jpg ddc332bef7c6131ddaa4aa41c58ad533 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 Ray (then Costelloe) in 1908. Source: © National Portrait Gallery, London. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/b11453263968904431092ad0387df94a.jpg e95b687c1b5f3eabb480dd132d842904 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 Ray Strachey circa 1913. Source: © National Portrait Gallery, London. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/2fdaf29566fea8d64df837da585b5ec4.jpg 5ef0756b7e3f9c67f0275e9ccd7c7eaa 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 Courtesy and copyright: The National Archives. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/cc2a184f8117eee8d2aabf20a21ad480.jpg 4774f351324e5b065a445cdf57457b27 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 Ray with children in 1922. Photograph Elliot & Fry. Source: © National Portrait Gallery, London. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/58943b00124c373f39955289861a4001.jpg 1e8fe70d2987db6042d539b0f6199dc1 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 Ray busy at work in 1928. 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Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Student of Engineering Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 23 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 Vann Bridge Cottage, Fernhurst, West 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 Rachel Costelloe was the daughter of a barrister, Frank Costelloe, and his American wife, Mary Pearsall Smith. Always known as Ray, she was brought up largely by her grandmother, after her mother left for Italy, and her father died when she was 12 years old. Ray’s education was disrupted by frequent school moves, and her own lack of application, but she nonetheless studied Mathematics at Newnham College, Cambridge, gaining an Honours Pass. At school and university, Ray was close friends with Ellie Rendel, one of the granddaughters of Lady Jane Strachey, a leading suffragist. Suffrage became the cause that Ray was looking for in her life and she and Ellie devoted much of their time at Newnham to meetings and campaigns. Both marched on the NUWSS ‘Mud March’ in February 1907 and gained speaking and organizing practice holding small meetings during their summer holidays. In July 1908, the two women organized a Newnham Caravan under the aegis of the NUWSS, taking the suffrage message to rural areas in the North. When Ray’s mother took her on a ‘finishing’ trip to the US, she was disconcerted to find that Ellie Rendel joined them, and that Ray and Ellie were soon travelling around the Northern States with Anna Shaw, the President of the North American Women’s Suffrage Society. Ray took much of 1909 “off” to concentrate on her writing, but she was back in the thick of the suffrage campaign during the 1910 election, promoting suffrage petitions and supporting suffragist candidates in the East End of London. She travelled to the US in the spring of 1910, combining research with campaigning, before returning to study electrical engineering at Oxford. Through Easter 1911 and for a time, she lived with her aunt, Alys Russell (married to Bertrand Russell), at Vann Bridge Cottage (now Vann Bridge Close) in Fernhurst, and it is there that Ray appears in the 1911 census – listed as an engineering student. Alys was a suffragist herself and one hopes she took great satisfaction in the singularity of Ray’s occupation! Later in 1911, Ray married Oliver Strachey, with whom she had two children, as well as a step- daughter. Despite her domestic burdens – which included managing much of Oliver’s life and their precarious joint finances - Ray carried out a huge amount of campaigning work for women’s rights – from suffrage, to employment opportunities, to equal pay. She wrote, spoke, and broadcast prodigiously; worked for Nancy Astor MP, and headed up the Women’s Employment Federation from 1933 through to her early death in 1940. Ray Strachey is best known for her history of the women’s movement (‘The Cause’, 1928), but her ‘immense activity’ (according to Virginia Woolf) ranged much more broadly than that, encompassing three Parliamentary campaigns and the physical construction of two small ‘rammed earth’ cottages in the hills around Fernhurst, where she found peace from the incessant demands of children and committee work. Her contribution to the Women’s movement fully justifies Jennifer Holmes comment that “women of today owe her a great debt” - if only for Ray’s insistence that women could find ‘a source of happiness of great value’ in their work outside the home. Sources: Jennifer Holmes, A Working Woman: the remarkable life of Ray Strachey (2019); Brian Harrison, Prudent Revolutionaries: Portraits of British Feminists between the Wars (1987). Contributed by Evelyn Cook (Independent researcher). 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 Ray (nee Costelloe) Strachey 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(-80988.15780606588 6630376.129837801) NUWSS https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/1e5945ca36dc694635390ea222bb79fb.jpg fcc6771bce25718ac24d18dc178b21ba 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 Mildred Mansel. Source: https://oldshirburnian.org.uk/sherborne-the-fight-for-womens-suffrage/ https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/31ebc5cbcb32b2fa4c11cf0eeceb9d86.jpg 9ba8964a92a8dbdf62715f643ac6a7b4 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 Mildred Mansel's tree at Eagle House. The plaque states: Planted by Mildred E. Mansel 21 October 1910. Source: Photo taken by Colonel Linley Blathwayt (Bath, 1910) from Bath in Time, Bath Central Library Collection. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/110cfa8eae5f7fefe812ec6af73ab72b.jpg 0d1ca013c7d3012b95276d1f25b39812 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/9b06f2c8862ba052034090aed39243c9.jpg 5e4e34d999167c58ebfa4c2ddc2a6683 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 Speaker Lady Constance Lytton, Mrs Mansel in the chair. Wednesday 28th September 1910 at 3pm. Second seats (tea included) 1 shilling (Bath, 1910). Source: Bath in Time, Bath Central Library Collection. 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 Bayford Lodge, Wincanton, Somerset 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 Evades Biographical Text Mrs Mildred Ella Mansel (1868-1942) was the daughter of women's suffrage campaigner, Adeline Chapman and her first husband, Arthur Guest, and granddaughter of Lady Charlotte Guest, the linguist, businesswoman and collector. Her cousin, Ivor Guest, was a Liberal Chief Whip and staunch anti-suffragist. She was married in 1888 to Colonel John Delalynde Mansel and had two daughters and a son. By 1909, Mrs Mansel had become a member for the Women's Social and Political Union and was arrested that year after taking part in a deputation from Caxton Hall. After chairing the Sherborne NUWSS organisation in 1909, in 1910, she became the organiser for the Bath WSPU, in the same year she also set up a branch in Yeovil. In 1911, Mrs Mansel organised the Bath WSPU Census Evasion and hired 12 Lansdowne Crescent in Bath so that suffrage protestors could stay the night to evade the census. Thirty-six women in total evaded the census, including Mary Blathwayt, another prominent suffragette from Bath (see image). On the 6th of April 1911, the 'Bath Chronicle' produced an extensive report on the events. Mrs Mansel had invited a reporter to interview her and to show him where the evasion was going to take place before the evasion took place. The reporter met Mrs Mansel in Bath and together they walked to the house where ‘she seized the opportunity afforded by the walk to attempt to show what an unanswerable cause the Suffragettes have.’ Although being known to support militant methods, Mrs Mansel was able to tactically promote the event as anti-militant, and yet by inviting an outside witness, the reporter from the 'Bath Chronicle', into their temporary home, the women had invited the wider Bath community to reflect on the ideology of femininity and the women’s sphere, and how that very realm could in fact be a site of radical and political resistance. Mrs Mansel was fundamental to the women's suffrage campaign in Bath. As well as writing often for the 'Bath Chronicle'. The meetings she chaired for the Bath WSPU branch were often reported on, whilst her activities, such as leading many demonstrations within the city, were also acknowledged. As well as the Census Evasion, Mildred Mansel was a supporter of tax evasion; in the same year as the Census Evasion, Mrs Mansel led a demonstration at a Bath auction house to promote these tactics. In 1910, Mrs Mansel planted a tree at the Blathwayt's living memorial arboretum for the women's suffrage cause at Eagle House in Bath, alongside many other trees planted by suffragettes who had visited, including the Pankhursts. The arboretum is destroyed, but her plaque has survived and is at the Roman Baths museum. Elsewhere outside of Bath, Mrs Mansel was also highly active. She was imprisoned for a week after smashing windows at the London War Office, she was great friends with Lady Constance Lytton, and in 1913 she visited Christabel Pankhurst in Paris. Mrs Mansel also owned an apartment in London where she could carry out her activism from the city. Contributed by Ellis Naylor (BA, MA) Bath Spa University. 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