26 10 286 https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/a96b242ee6c78c6e6fd3c1993da9625e.jpg a1ebc1b7099145a5e37e7b4a92cbeeb1 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 Alys Russell in 1913. Source: Worthing Gazette, 28 May 1913 courtesy of West Sussex County Council Library Service. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/3652116e7ae35a1cdbda654f74ea02ea.jpg ba0bdc6ddff56fdeb91cd89e68001f0a 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 Meeting outside Shoreham Town Hall. The meeting is undocumented, and the speaker unidentified, but she does resemble Alys Russell. Source: Postmarked 1 June 1913, collection Sussex Archaeological Society. 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 Separated Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Vann Bridge, Fernhurst, Haslemere, 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 American-born Alys Russell followed her mother as a campaigner. When Hannah Whitall Smith died in 1911, the Common Cause honoured ‘an evangelical speaker of passion and repute, an ardent Suffragist and a leader of the British Women’s Temperance Association’. After separating from Bertrand Russell in 1911, Alys took up residence at Ford Place, Arundel, West Sussex. In June 1912, she joined (see) Lady Maud Parry on the platform at a NUWSS meeting in Arundel Town Hall addressed by Sir Harry Johnston and Cicely Corbett. In January 1913 she presided at a Littlehampton Women’s Suffrage Society meeting. In May 1913, as a newly elected Vice-President of the Worthing Women’s Franchise Society, she chaired a lantern lecture about women factory workers, speaking about her own brief experience as a factory worker in 1903. On Saturday 19 July 1913, Alys and Lady Maud Parry led Littlehampton ‘Pilgrims’ to walk to Angmering before catching the train to Brighton. On Monday 21 July they headed the Brighton Road contingent of the Great Suffragist Pilgrimage as it set off for London. Alys addressed meetings on the way at Burgess Hill, Crawley, and Lowfield Heath. In October, opening the new premises of the Worthing Women’s Franchise Society, she urged members to follow up the impression made by the Pilgrimage in country districts by carrying the message out to villages during the winter. During that autumn, Alys talked to the Brighton and Hove Women’s Franchise Society and to the Worthing Women’s Franchise Society about schools for mothers such as she had established at St Pancras in 1907 as chair of the St Pancras Mothers and Infants Society. She addressed the Petersfield Women’s Suffrage Society on ‘Temperance, Women and the Vote’, and held an impromptu outdoor meeting in Chichester, having been crowded out of a debate in the Corn Exchange between Lady Selborne and Gladys Pott of the National League for Opposing Women’s Suffrage. By the end of 1913 speaking engagements were taking Alys all over the Southeast. Following the passing of the White Slave Traffic Act in December, she arranged for Mrs Bonwick, of the Liberal Women’s Suffrage Union, to address Littlehampton’s Women’s Temperance Association and the Littlehampton Women’s Suffrage Society in January 1914. She spoke herself in Littlehampton’s Congregational Church on women’s place in the community and presided over a Littlehampton Women’s Suffrage Society public meeting addressed by Israel Zangwill and Sir Harry Johnston. In the spring of 1914, with writer Rosalind Travers, of Tortington House, Arundel, Alys held weekly social gatherings for the ‘laundry girls’ of Littlehampton. In July she hosted a garden meeting at Ford Place to promote the NUWSS ‘Coast Campaign’ but in August was organising local war relief work. She had to leave Ford Place soon after this as the Ford Estate was put up for sale. Two of her last public engagements in the area were, appropriately, to talk in October 1914 to both the Horsham Temperance Association and Horsham Suffrage Society on ‘The War and Infant Welfare’. Until early 1916 Alys talked across the country on this subject. In June 1915 she was elected to the NUWSS Executive Committee and in early 1916 undertook a two-month fund-raising lecture tour of the United States and Canada to publicise NUWSS refugee aid and suffragist patriotic effort in general. She was back in time for the Patriotic Housekeeping Exhibition staged by the Brighton and Hove Women’s Franchise Society, where, in the Infant Welfare Room, she spoke on the need for more Health Centres and Health Visitors. As secretary of the Millicent Garrett Fawcett Hospitals for Refugees in Russia, Alys continued to drum up support for these. She organised jumble sales in Southampton, her new summer home, and in Chelsea where she lived at 11 St Leonard’s Terrace. As President now of the Portsmouth Women’s Suffrage Society, she returned in January 1917 to speak to the Worthing Women’s Franchise Society, whose former secretary, Mrs Elborough, was now administrator of the NUWSS hospitals in Russia. Alys became treasurer of the NUWSS in 1918, and with her niece Ray Strachey, and Millicent Garrett Fawcett and Margaret Jones, sent a letter to the June 1918 Imperial War Conference, urging the adoption throughout the British Empire of the principle of women’s suffrage. Sources: Bognor Regis Observer; Worthing Gazette; Brighton Gazette; Mid Sussex Times; Portsmouth Evening News; Hants and Sussex News; Kent and Sussex Courier; West Sussex County Times; West Sussex Gazette; Sussex Advertiser; Common Cause; International Women’s Suffrage News. Contributed by Frances Stenlake an independent researcher and writer. 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 Alys Russell 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(-80897.09846260966 6630256.244606026) NUWSS https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/8275c3344ff036bcb0dfeddebcc5d02f.jpg 01c361bcb820bd6391088d67a22dccd4 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 Photo of Annie in 1911. The photo appeared in the Poster Supplement of the Yorkshire Weekly Herald, 24 June 1911 ‘York Corporation and Municipal Institutions in the Coronation Year, 1911’. It was photographed by Mr. Lane Smith and Annie was one of just 6 women out of 116 men. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/837344c5ed0661fb9bc0aea6eeb58b79.jpg 6434b6ee9bec17e1cb2c7f5025779fa0 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 return for 33 Melbourne Street. Only Annie's son is at home. Courtesy: The National Archives. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/72623c5cd1a6fbf3ef4146b5e3fdab54.JPG b9f8a05165114e587cb58161f56bc235 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 Annie's house at 33 Melbourne Street. Photo courtesy of: Christopher Rainger, Fishergate, Fulford and Heslington Local History Society. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/992bebcffa4c8ea03b257f1665ca0d55.jpg 50c3b8edaf3a78341721560675f439f6 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 Suffragettes evading the census in Coney Street. Annie was most likely among them. Source: courtesy The National Archives. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/c91a12b07a84e5e5a4c2c88406b8a9a3.jpg dba83339223eb623fe31666e142684d1 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 Annie's daughter Florence and her baby Stephen who was pushed in his pram by fleeing suffragette Lilian Lenton (acting as a nanny) to escape house arrest under the Cat and Mouse Act (see Resources: glossary of terms). Photo with kind permission of Catherine Djimramadji (Annie Coultate’s great granddaughter). https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/9ad2741d0394f1bf6d5619dcdfedcc67.JPG 04892e4ec0ef00fcaf532bdb516f06b5 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 Annie's retirement entry in the Fishergate School Headteacher’s Log Book, 1921. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Senior teacher 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 Widowed Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 33 Melbourne Street, York 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 Annie Coultate posted a notice in Votes for Women on 18th February 1910, announcing that: ‘A group of women has undertaken to organise a women’s meeting on March 2nd. All interested are invited to write to Mrs Coultate as above. Hon. Sec. Mrs Coultate, 68 Nunthorpe Road.’ A year later when the 1911 census enumerator called at 33 Melbourne Street in Fishergate, York, he discovered that then resident Annie Coultate had signed the census form, but she had not made an entry for herself and described her son Henry as the head of the household. The enumerator scratched out ‘Head’ and wrote ‘Son’ and added a terse note diagonally across the form saying: ‘The signature is that of a well-known suffragette. She was away from her home during the night of the census but was most probably enumerated amongst a number of suffragettes who passed the night in a room in Coney Street, York, with the object of evading the census’. Annie was secretary of York WSPU and had spent census night in a room adjacent to their offices in Coney Street, where an enumerator counted the 18 women and 3 men as they left the building. After the event, Votes for Women reported that ‘a large upper room was furnished with comfortable chairs and the evaders settled themselves in for the night…The most thrilling moments were when policemen ascended the stairs and the room ‘lay low’… Supper was served and amid much merriment and a most enjoyable night was spent.’ As secretary, she was at the centre of the campaign and Votes for Women records her regularly selling large numbers of the newspaper from door to door and on the street in York. She also organised events and social gatherings and occasionally spoke at public meetings in York and other towns. There were few examples of militant action in York, but Annie actively supported those who took part in the campaign. When Lilian Lenton was released under the Cat and Mouse Act, she escaped from house arrest in York by acting as a nanny and pushing Annie’s daughter Florence’s baby, Stephen, in a pram. Annie was born Annie de Lacy in 1856, the daughter of Henry, a wholesale druggist traveller. She became a pupil-teacher at the age of 15 and was 55 years old when she set up the York WSPU. By then she was a highly respected senior teacher at Fishergate Elementary School, where her work for women’s suffrage was admired by the headmaster, George Barker. She was one of very few women included in a municipal poster of photographs of key figures working for York Corporation in 1910, the only known photograph of her. Annie married Frank Coultate in 1881. He was also a schoolteacher, but he died aged 41 and Annie brought up Henry and Florence on her own. Florence followed Annie into teaching and married William Mountain Holmes, headteacher of Poppleton Road School in York, and both were involved in the suffrage movement. Henry was a grocer’s assistant and also worked for the cause. Annie died in 1931 at her daughter’s house in Acomb, York, aged 75. Contributed by Christopher Rainger for the Fishergate, Fulford & Heslington Local History Society. For more information about Annie Coultate and other women involved in the suffrage campaign in York, visit: www.ffhyork.weebly.com 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 Annie Coultate 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(-119572.04990709755 7160954.186571522) NUWSS https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/91d207b042c7e644a0060bc12d82e6d4.jpg b5462f2bb254a4b8cdbfe7205e953432 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 Homestall, Barley, postcard Robert H Clark, c. 1906. Credit: Haaretz newspaper https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/bd5c1a4a8469700afcf287e4911a6f24.jpg 8e292b0aef29b49e4b17eaac624e6974 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: The National Archives. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/ab889ca441d08775398c347fb9625749.jpg b3cd143ea0078bb5578d0a657fe1a12a 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 Nina Salaman Portrait by Solomon J. Solomon, 1918. Source: Jewish Women’s Archive (public domain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Salaman). https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/4c536e8f7ee4993e1ec29c79120106a2.jpg 85fbbbd83b5cbba5f4bd42fce812d702 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 Jewish League for Women's Suffrage badge. Source: Courtesy The Women's Library (LSE). https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/539efd715c87dfe613f59618aae900bd.jpg 5ac25b2b17d522c78ef1ecbff0e2e661 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 Dr R N Salaman, Officers of the 39th Royal Fusiliers, Cairo, 1918. Dr Salaman is fourth from left, 3rd Row. Source: unknown, 1920 (The British Jewry Book of Honour, 1922 see https://www.jewsfww.uk/roll-of-honour.php). Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Scientific researcher/ retired MD 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 The Homestall, London Rd, Barley, Herts 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 Redcliffe Nathan Salaman (1874-1955) was a medical doctor who gave up his role when he contracted tuberculosis. Redirecting his energies elsewhere, he became a well-known plant scientist who bred disease-resistant potatoes. Redcliffe and his wife ‘Nina’ (née Pauline Ruth Davis, 1877-1925) were advocates of women’s rights. In 1909, the NUWSS newspaper Common Cause reported that Redcliffe spoke in favour of women’s suffrage alongside Mrs E O Fordham at a meeting in Hertfordshire. The following year, Redcliffe and his wife hosted an event for Liberal Party supporters at their home in Barley, Hertfordshire. As the couple lived in a large country house, the grounds provided a perfect location for the event which was attended by more than 450 people. Redcliffe was among the speakers along with the Hon. Mrs Fordham who touched on the case for women’s suffrage. The Salamans were close friends of the suffrage sympathisers, Israel and Edith Zangwill, who campaigned with the MLWS and WSPU. While the Zangwills appear to have evaded the 1911 census, the Salamans complied with it. Redcliffe was described on the census as a retired doctor engaging in scientific research, while Nina, who was a poet and respected Hebrew scholar, was listed as an authoress. Five of their six children were also named along with several servants. In 1912, Redcliffe and Nina were among the founding vice-presidents of a new organisation, the Jewish League for Woman Suffrage (JLWS), which the Zangwills also supported. Welcoming the arrival of the JLWS, the WSPU paper The Suffragette, noted that the JLWS would work along similar lines to church suffrage leagues by emphasising the need for women’s emancipation to improve women’s status and to combat social evils. The JLWS also aimed to “encourage the participation of the Synagogue in social movements of the day.” Although Nina was active in the JLWS along with her sisters-in-law, she is said to have been less politically engaged than her husband and to have opposed the militant tactics of the suffragettes. Nevertheless, she was ground-breaking in her own way. As well as publishing her religious writing and being dedicated to improving girls’ education, she became the first woman to preach in an Orthodox synagogue in Britain in 1919. With the arrival of the First World War, Redcliffe joined the Royal Army Medical Core and served in the Middle East while Nina encouraged people to donate comforts to Jewish soldiers. Redcliffe and Nina became increasingly involved in Zionism, a cause which Redcliffe continued to support after Nina’s untimely death in 1925. The following year, Redcliffe married Gertrude Lowy (1887-1982) who had been a militant suffrage campaigner in her twenties. During the Second World War, Redcliffe acted as Chairman of the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad which assisted Jewish people who had been imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps. Sources: Common Cause; Suffragette; Herts & Cambs Reporter; The Times; Todd Edelmen, ‘Surreptitious Rebel – Nina Davis Salaman’, Report of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew & Jewish History (Oxford: OCHJC, 2013-14); The Jewish Museum www.jewishmuseum.org.uk. Contributed by art historian Diana Wilkins with additional information from 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/. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Esther Roper (seated) at work with Edith Palliser (left) & Mrs Blaxter c. 1905. Original Source: The Women's Library (LSE) TWL2009.02.141. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/2d39ecf384b781c0dfe7bd588822730b.png ef0639d95f7221a4bc13e496d2070ef4 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 Esther Roper & Eva Gore-Booth gravestone in Hampstead. Source: www.spirited.org.uk Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Secretary Industrial and Professional Women's Society 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 Cringle Brook, 4 Park Crescent, Victoria Park, Manchester 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 Evades Biographical Text Esther Gertrude Roper was born on 4 August 1868, in Lindow, Cheshire. Her father had been a factory hand who turned to the Church Missionary Society to improve himself. He spent six years on missionary work in Yoruba, before marrying a teacher, Annie Craig. Esther was the couple’s first child and was looked after by grandparents or sent to the Church Missionary Society’s (CMS) Boarding school in Highbury, London, while her parents continued their work in Africa. When Edward Roper returned to England in 1874, he spent three years preaching around Lancashire. Esther went with him on many of these journeys. Aged only 6, she had an early introduction to the harsh conditions experienced in the textile industries. Annie valued education and Esther was sent to school rather than out to work. With support from the CMS, Esther was enrolled as one of the first women students at Owens College (see image), Manchester, graduating with a degree in 1891. Whilst at Owens, Esther became involved in the Debating Society, and in settlement work. This convinced her to work for women’s suffrage, and the cause of women’s rights – particularly fair and equal pay for working class women. In 1893, Esther took over and re-invigorated the North of England Society for Women’s Suffrage. She traveled extensively around Lancashire collecting signatures for Millicent Fawcett’s special appeal and became an executive member for the NUWSS in London. In 1896, Esther’s life completely changed, when she met the radical Irish writer (see) Eva Gore-Booth. Both were recuperating in Italy and whilst it is in not clear whether the two women became lovers, certainly they fell in love, and remained so for the rest of their lives. Eva moved to Manchester to be with Esther, and the two women then lived together until Eva’s death in 1926. Esther’s work for women’s right was prodigious. Although not a natural orator, she spoke at meetings all over the country, arguing that the vote would empower women to achieve equality in the working world – in training, opportunity, and most importantly, wages. She criticised protective legislation which limited women’s opportunities and often their wages. In line with this, she campaigned hard against legal restrictions on the work of Pit Brow Lasses in Lancashire and of Barmaids and pub Landladies across the country. In 1911, Esther and Eva were living in Victoria Park in Manchester. The census record describes Esther as ‘the occupier’ (see Eva Gore Booth's entry for census form). However, neither woman was in the property on census night, nor are they recorded elsewhere. It is highly possible that they took part in the mass evasion ‘sleepover’ at Denison House– (see Jessie Stephenson WSPU member). Jill Liddington, in Vanishing for the Vote (2014) describes them as ‘probably present’ (p.178). In 1913, the couple moved to London for Eva’s health. During the war both women supported conscientious objectors, welfare work, and the peace campaign. After Eva’s early death, Esther devoted herself to organising the publication of her poetry and other writing, maintaining herself with some history teaching. Esther died in April 1938 and the two are buried together in Hampstead. Sources: Sonia Tierman, Eva Gore Booth: An Image of Such Politics (Manchester: 2012); Jill Liddington, Vanishing for the Vote (Manchester: 2014); Helen Antrobus & Andrew Simcock, First in the Fight (Manchester: 2019). 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/. 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Source: courtesy The National Archives Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation None known Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 50 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 Lower Rookery, Ditchling, 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 Rose Chute Ellis (1861-1947) was the daughter of a member of the Legislative Council of South Australia, and appears to have come to Sussex in 1908, the year of the marriage of her brother, Boer War veteran Lt-Col William Chute Ellis, to Constance, the youngest of the four Bull sisters who ran a girls’ school at their home, Trevelyan, in Haywards Heath. Rose lived first in Ditchling with her companion Susan Armitage and Susan’s orphaned niece and nephew. By 1911 Rose was a popular speaker for the Central Sussex Women’s Suffrage Society (CSWSS): a speech at a summer garden meeting was reportedly ‘as refreshing as fizzing magnesia’. With Brighton’s Edith Pickworth and (see) Flora de Gaudrion Merrifield, Rose addressed outreach meetings in Ditchling and the village of Streat. In 1912 she and Susan moved their household to Cuckfield to live near CSWSS secretary and treasurer, (see) Edith Bevan, and helped Edith Bevan organise the Haywards Heath Sweated Industries Exhibition. Rose was on the platform at its opening, with Flora, Marie Corbett, and Louisa Martindale. As a member of the Girls Friendly Society, she worked with Dorothy Bonavia Hunt and her mother, and Mrs Bonavia Hunt expressed appreciation of the ‘spiritual aspect’ of Rose’s suffragist principles. Rose was the leading light of the Sussex Suffrage Amateurs, who performed plays written for the Actresses’ Franchise League. A favourite was A Chat with Mrs Chicky. Rose always played the title role; those who took a turn to play opposite her included (see) Alys Russell. Rose enjoyed the support of her brother, Lt-Col Chute Ellis. Declaring himself to have been a suffragist for 30 years, he chaired a meeting, held by the Burgess Hill Pleasant Wednesday Evening Society, addressed by Rose on Woman’s Place and Power in the State. When he and his wife hosted a suffrage garden meeting at their Burgess Hill home in Burgess Hill, he introduced speaker Rose as ‘well-known in the neighbourhood’. On Monday 21 July, Rose was among Cuckfield and Central Sussex suffragists, led by Edith Bevan and accompanied by photographer (see) Douglas Miller, who met suffrage Pilgrims from Brighton at Stonepound Crossroads, Hassocks. The following morning, she and Susan joined Edith Bevan, (see) Marie Corbett, (see) Louisa Martindale, Flora de Gaudrion Merrifield, (see) Dorothy Bonavia Hunt, and other CSWSS members, to set off from Cuckfield for the second day of marching. At the Hyde Park rally at the end of that week, Rose, Susan, and Edith were among the CSWSS stalwarts present around the Reformers’ Tree. A month later, at a CSWSS meeting at Ditchling, Rose referred to the Pilgrimage as ‘the most delightful week of my whole life’, a vindication of NUWSS non-militant methods. During the War, Rose’s campaigned for NUWSS hospital tents and children’s welfare; she helped organise a Ministry of Food talk in Cuckfield by (see) Elizabeth Robins. After the War, she and Susan moved with Edith Bevan to East Chiltington, Plumpton. Here Rose became successively founder, secretary, and President of the Plumpton WI, and ten years later, founder member of the League of Nations Plumpton branch. Sources: Mid Sussex Times Sussex Express Common Cause ESRO WI/62/3/1 Plumpton WI scrapbook. NB. the location of Ellen's home is approximated on the map. Contributed by: Frances Stenlake, Independent Researcher & Writer. 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 Rose 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(-12476.577206882555 6607011.444362038) NUWSS https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/8fb047fbf2d68620d4128879a4bea0b7.jpg b9ef36190a287974cf03a6d3d5f01baf 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 Israel Zangwill c. 1901. Source: The National Portrait Gallery. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/38f1a6b2c9d4d3d6fa934681b0e8d346.jpg da62690ba224707bd10d06d61b33b504 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 Israel Zangwill 1909. Source: The Vote, 16 December 1909 (courtesy The Women's Library LSE). https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/d20d5272d1c3f6c7e1e27b8998f9a50e.jpg 8154051411630afea5fae7148ac28d0c 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 Zangwills 1911 census from with protest statement. Source: courtesy The National Archives https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/bfaf51cd6c57acb9cf6fbb01198cc204.jpg 6c579a50316a89c10e147277c4a8f74f 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 on Far End (now 63) Sea Lane, East Preston, Littlehampton. Source: courtesy East Preston Parish Council. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/54eb67d21a165774597c9b8c43093f64.jpg 7772c9afd10c8d8467f24e92d60612cc 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 Israel Zangwill c. 1900. Source: The National Portrait Gallery. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Writer 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 Far End, Sea Lane, East Preston, Littlehampton 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 Evades Biographical Text Author and dramatist Israel Zangwill (1864-1926) was associated with several suffrage societies. In 1903 he married Edith Ayrton who was also active in the suffrage movement. In 1906 he told Edith Palliser, secretary of the London Society for Women’s Suffrage, that he was too busy to address suffrage meetings. In December 1907, Israel spoke at the first big public meeting held by the MLWS; he later became one of its Vice-Presidents. On 21 June 1908, the Zangwills took part in the WSPU’s ‘Women’s Sunday’ procession to Hyde Park, riding in a four-horse coach with HG Wells, Thomas Hardy, and others. Later that year Zangwill criticised certain militant methods, and in February 1909 he was the principal speaker at an Exeter Hall meeting organised by non-militant societies. In May 1909 he addressed an NUWSS meeting in Cambridge; the following month he spoke for the WSPU in London. By the end of the year, he was supporting the WFL; a full-page profile in its paper Vote described him as ‘witty, ironic and brilliant’. In April 1911, the Zangwills joined the organised boycott of the census choosing to evade. Their servants were recorded and the Zangwills left a signed note on the census (see image) stating ‘The rest of the household is not entered as we feel that until women have the political rights of citizens, they should not perform the duties of citizens’. In June, Zangwill was in the writers’ contingent of the WSPU Coronation procession and on the platform at its Albert Hall finale. The Actresses’ Franchise League, the International Women’s Suffrage Club, and the Men’s International Alliance for Women’s Suffrage were among other organisations addressed by him. In November 1912 he expressed support for the new Jewish League for Women’s Suffrage, and by 1913 was speaking for the Women’s Tax Resistance League. In May 1913 Zangwill wound up an Oxford Union debate at which a women’s suffrage resolution was carried for the first time. He was involved in protests at this time against force feeding - of Hugh Franklin of the Men’s Political Union as well as of women prisoners – and the Cat and Mouse Act. In Sussex as elsewhere, Zangwill supported both constitutional and militant suffrage societies. In May 1911 he addressed a meeting of the Worthing Women’s Franchise Society presided over by (see) Lady Maud Parry; in February 1914 a meeting of the Littlehampton Women’s Suffrage Society, chaired by Alys Russell. In December 1912 WSPU organiser (see) Greta Allen reported two meetings in Chichester addressed by Zangwill and Alice Abadam, one disrupted by ‘hooligans.’ In February 1913 Zangwill became involved in a scuffle with Worthing hooligans shouting down his wife and other WSPU speakers at the Kursaal. When the United Suffragists was formed early in 1914, Israel and Edith Zangwill became Vice-Presidents, and as a United Suffragists speaker 1915 Zangwill demanded that the ‘Women’s Voice’ be heard in any Peace Settlement. Zangwill’s most memorable speeches were published as pamphlets by the Woman’s Press. Several were delivered at the Albert Hall on behalf of either the WSPU or the NUWSS, and Zangwill attributed the success of one speech, at a WSPU meeting in Nov 1910, to Miss Rosa Leo, voice coach to WSPU speakers: ‘Thanks to your teachings I spoke for nearly an hour at the Albert Hall without weariness – at least to myself – while my voice carried to every part of the hall’. Rosa Leo used this endorsement for months to come in her suffrage press advertisements. Sources: Women’s Library (WL 9/01/0118) letter 10 April 1906 to Miss Edith Palliser; Pall Mall Gazette; Cambridge Independent Press; Times; Common Cause; Suffragette; Vote; Votes for Women; Women’s Franchise; Eastbourne Gazette; West Sussex Gazette; Worthing Gazette; Jewish Chronicle. Contributed by: Frances Stenlake, Independent Writer & 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 Israel Zangwill 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(-53855.25644338111 6586881.855403518) MLWS https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/415b7d862e49e1626946d64cae7ab158.jpg ceda0f1c00048adc651f56359fca9eed 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 Marie Brackenbury in prison, postcard 1908-9. Source: Kenney Papers, UEA Archive.(https://suffragettestories.omeka.net/items/show/134) https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/1e4c62c41474e45f18ca7aab24eb36fa.jpg c1327f2bc6b803400a6932d2631ee9f8 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 Published cartoon sketch entitled ‘History Up To Date And More So’ by Marie Brackenbury. Source: Surrey History Centre ref 6536/221 www.exploringsurreyspast.org.uk https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/d37cbecb8c8fcc3246092fc28d7f09bb.jpg a52e7d14fe87a20ce86ad3b679d50dfd 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 Brackenbury census evasion at 2 Campden Hill, 1911. Source: Courtesy The National Archives. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/d4c6fe49166d5c751e3cc2d60558b5e3.jpg 8e96add4d6caba9cfb70ab93e2bb0e59 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 Miss Brackenbury 'suffragettes information refused' so noted in red by the census enumerator along with the number of evaders present, 1911. Source: courtesy The National Archives. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/589d54938eadb068f2ea2eaec3a61a9b.jpg 185ce1ef6eec0391226c7036f3bea3b8 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 Georgina Brackenbury 1905-1914. Source & copyright The Museum of London. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/24b501cff0e71e42b50b4f9d6817be2b.jpg 2f613ae7d8495485ee92584d826c9584 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 WSPU leader Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst painted by Georgina Brackenbury (commissioned 1927). Source & copyright The National Portrait Gallery. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/2a4173249ac08e89b1c72ae005d4260b.jpg 3063137a6ddc31d651f594c46ed99840 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 Georgina Brackenbury's portrait of Viscount Dillon (1894) hangs in the National Portrait Gallery. Source & copyright The National Portrait Gallery. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/3da5c0e84a7d88b2b06cce89157797c1.jpg b708e4423f7bd105bddee42d886a290b 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 Brackenbury’s deeds for the cause were commemorated in a plaque made by suffrage campaigner Ernestine Mills commissioned by the Suffragette Fellowship in 1950. Source: The Museum of London online collections (plaque link copyright © V.I. Cockroft). Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Artists Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 46 & 45 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 2 Campden Hill Square, 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 Evades Biographical Text Georgina Agnes Brackenbury (1865-1949) and her sister Marie Venetia Caroline Brackenbury (1866-1945) were portrait and landscape painters respectively. They were born in Woolwich to an army general and his wife Hilda and were two of nine siblings. Both sisters trained at the Slade school of art circa 1888 to 1900 where they met several fellow students who were also became involved in the campaign for female suffrage. After leaving the Slade Georgina has some success portrait painting. For example, her portrait of Viscount Dillon (1894) hangs in the National Portrait Gallery and she exhibited a portrait of Lord de Mauley at the Royal Academy in 1904. The sisters rented studios in Chelsea (1896 in 56 Glebe Place) and Kensington (1911 2 Hillsleigh Road) but had the use of a huge studio located in their Kensington home from 1900 at 2 Campden Hill Square where they spent the duration of their involvement in the Women’s suffrage campaign alongside a country home in Peaslake, Surrey. In 1907 through 1908, both sisters subscribed to Mrs Millicent Fawcett’s law abiding NUWSS but also in 1907 joined Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst’s militant WSPU. Soon after in 1908, Marie contributed a cartoon to a January edition of the ‘Women’s Franchise’ which was also reproduced as a postcard and a leaflet. The cartoon entitled ‘History Up to Date and more so – by a suffragette pavement artist’ made a comical play on the nursery rhyme The House that Jack Built. That same month, the sisters held a WSPU meeting at their home studio at Campden Hill accommodating 200 women. Their shift towards militancy was rapid when they were arrested just a few weeks later on the 11th of February following their part in a daring raid on the House of Commons with suffragettes attempting to force entry. Both Georgina and Marie were sentenced to six weeks in prison. Undeterred, in June, the sisters chaired platforms at the WSPU demonstration in Hyde Park (21st June) and Georgina began travelling up and down the country speaking at meetings. In 1910, and after working with Annie Kenney, she took over from Mary Gawthorpe as an organiser in Manchester. In 1911, the Brackenbury home became a haven for suffragettes boycotting the government census survey that year hosting an 'evasion'. The message scrawled across the census form read ‘Miss Marie Brackenbury in charge takes this opportunity of registering her protest against the votelessness of the women of Great Britain by refusing to fill in this form’. The census official notes there was one man, and 25 women present at the Brackenbury evasion. The following year in 1912, Marie, Georgina, and their elderly mother Hilda were all imprisoned for two weeks for taking part in the WSPU window smashing campaign. During the most turbulent final years of the militant campaign, the Brackenbury home became known as ‘Mouse Castle’ for giving refuge to suffragettes temporarily released pending rearrest under the infamous Cat and Mouse Act (see our Glossary of terms under resources). In 1914, the Brackenbury home even became temporary WSPU headquarters after its central office was raided by police. In 1927, Georgina was commissioned to paint a portrait of Mrs Pankhurst (see image) and was a pall bearer at her funeral in 1928. In 1950, the Brackenbury’s deeds for the cause were commemorated in a plaque by Ernestine Mills commissioned by the Suffragette Fellowship. Contributed by Tara Morton (Warwick University) as part of the Mapping British Women Artists 1750-1950 project & Research Group, which is affiliated with The British Art Network (led and supported by Tate and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, with public funding provided by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. 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 Georgina & Marie Brackenbury 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(-22472.288242291557 6711620.990764658) WSPU https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/033eba1e373cfb7ab6f21db9a3eca7eb.jpg 0e63ed516b93286a309c2661869f7f7b 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 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 39 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Divorced Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Old Hall, Ashdown Forest, 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 Muriel was a daughter of Liberal politician Thomas Brassey, eldest son of the railway magnate, and his first wife, Annie. After divorcing Gilbert Sackville, Earl de la Warr, in 1902, Muriel took up residence at Old Lodge on Ashdown Forest. In March 1911 she donated to WSPU funds and sent to the Bexhill Chronicle the WSPU’s reply to Winston Churchill’s attack on it, protesting particularly about the force-feeding of men suffrage activists. At this time Muriel was staying with her friend, American heiress Mary Hoadley Dodge, at Warwick House, St James, where she and her maid are listed as visitors in the 1911 Census. In April 1911 Muriel presided, supported by Louisa Martindale, at a Horsted Keynes meeting, attended by a ‘large, fashionable and enthusiastic audience’, and addressed by Lord Robert Cecil. In the Coronation Procession of 17th June she accompanied Millicent Garrett Fawcett and her entourage. In the autumn of 1911 Muriel became President of the East Grinstead Women’s Suffrage Society formed by Marie Corbett. Vice-Presidents included Lady Sybil Brassey, the second wife of Muriel’s father, and Lady Eleanor Cecil. Meanwhile Muriel and Lady Betty Balfour, President of the Conservative Women’s Franchise Association, had been ‘working indefatigably’ to make Emmeline Pankhurst’s tour of the Highlands ‘a great success’. As Betty Balfour said, presiding over Lady Cowdray’s ‘At Home’ at Dunecht House, ‘Now that the Government has promised facilities for the Conciliation Bill, all suffrage societies are working heart and soul together’. In November 1911 Muriel chaired a WSPU meeting in South Kensington, addressed by Elizabeth Robins and Evelyn Sharp. In February 1912 she was on the platform at a NUWSS Albert Hall event presided over by Millicent Garrett Fawcett and addressed by Lloyd George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Betty Balfour’s brother Lord Lytton, chair of the Conciliation Committee. A meeting chaired by Muriel at Brockenhurst Ladies College, Seaford, resulted in the formation of a NUWSS branch there. In November, now President also of the Rotherfield and Mark Cross Women’s Suffrage Society, Muriel attended another NUWSS public meeting in the Albert Hall where one of the speakers was Lord Robert Cecil. For the Midlothian by-election in September 1912, Muriel, a committee member of the NUWSS Election Fighting Fund, lent at least one car to the suffrage-supporting Labour Party. She similarly supported George Lansbury when, in November 1912, he resigned his seat of Bow and Bromley in order to force a by-election and stood independently as a Socialist Women’s Suffragist. In January 1913 Muriel became President of the new Federated Council of Women’s Suffrage Societies, comprising 18 non-militant suffrage organisations, and run under the auspices of the National Political League. She participated in a National Political League demonstration in March, and conference in April, calling upon the Government to stop this ‘barbarous custom of forcible feeding’. She was a signatory of protests against the Cat and Mouse Act, and in May 1913 was one of the few women to attend the Bow St trial of seven WSPU officials WSPU, including Beatrice Sanders, and two men. Muriel and Mary Dodge were thanked for supplying cars for the NUWSS Pilgrimage in July 1913, and, in September, Muriel’s ‘large and comfortable motor car’ made Lady Frances Balfour and her companions ‘independent of the vagaries of Highland trains’, on their campaigning tour of Scotland. In 1917 Muriel joined the National Council for Adult Suffrage, and in the December 1918 General Election supported Major Graham-Pole, Labour candidate for the East Grinstead Division, whose publicity gave as the ninth of ten reasons for voting for him that ‘he stands for equal rights for men and women’. Sources: WSRO 54752 E Grinstead WSS report; WSRO 54746 Marie Corbett letter; Daily Herald; Manchester Courier; Bexhill Observer; Bexhill Chronicle; Croborough Weekly; Hastings and St Leonards Observer; Kent and Sussex Courier; Mid Sussex Times; Sussex Express; Common Cause; Vote; Votes for Women; Women’s Dreadnought. Contributed by Frances Stenlake, Independent writer & 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 Muriel de la Warr (Countess) 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(8670.118539227222 6630432.442855885) NUWSS https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/15c8f853730299578008cbbad357a888.jpg 3a41a4b8a195e661965c81195371f258 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 Very Reverend Edward Maclure (1895) by Myra Luxmoore. Source: courtesy Manchester Art Gallery. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/843456f8330dc88df7fe798c1b28e9c9.jpg c8e5b5e5496b632e53cc14e92d008aac 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 Portrait painting of an unknown woman in black (dated circa early twentieth century) by Myra Luxmoore. Source: https://www.antiquestradegazette.com/print-edition/2020/march/2435/auction-reports/portraits-of-mystery-young-women-catch-the-eye-in-auctions/ https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/0846b7c8c96855fb1959c516f89e6d78.jpg 5b36946668237ac5757a3dd71d22658c 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 Myra's only known suffrage postcard produced for the CUWFA. Source: photo courtesy of Elizabeth Crawford with permission from Ken Florey https://womanandhersphere.com/?s=luxmoore 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 51 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 57 Bedford Gardens (studio 1) Kensington, London Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census CUWFA Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Evades Biographical Text Myra Elizabeth Luxmoore (1860-1918) was born in Paddington, London. After a brief spell in south Wales the family moved to Devon where in 1881 Myra was described as an ‘art student’ though it is not clear where she studied. Myra was a portrait and figure painter and in 1881 exhibited as an associate with the Society of Women Artists and by 1891 had moved to London where she exhibited regularly from 1905 with the Royal Academy. Among her exhibits was a portrait of Lady Balfour (1894) and one of the daughter of Sir John Craggs MVO. Featured (images) are her paintings of the Very Reverend Edward Maclure (1895) and a painting of an unknown woman in black (dated circa early twentieth century). Myra also drew inspiration from her travels in northern France (glimpsed in a painting of a Breton harbour scene) and Palestine which inspired a biblical painting (c.1912) owned by Sister Agnes Mason (founder of the Community of the Holy Family). Myra joined the London Society for Women’s Suffrage (NUWSS) in 1909 and was also secretary of the Kensington branch of the Conservative & Unionist Women’s Franchise Association (CUWFA) for which she also produced a suffrage postcard entitled ‘Woman’s cause is Man’s: They rise or sink together’. She also held numerous suffrage meetings in her spacious studio (no.1) at 57 Bedford Gardens, Kensington. Some of the meetings were recorded by suffrage campaigner Kate Frye in her diary (see sources below) which gives some fascinating glimpses into the meetings where there was often ‘a crush of people and no end of helpers’. Although Myra belonged to law abiding suffrage societies the CUWFA and NUWSS, she likely took part in the organised suffragette boycott of the 1911 census as she is nowhere to be found on the census record. The census official noted that Myra was was the occupier of the flat but listed it as ‘unoccupied’ that night. Sources: E Crawford (Ed.) Campaigning for the Vote: Kate Parry Frye’s Suffrage Diary (Francis Boutle, 2013) & Art and Suffrage: A Biographical Dictionary of Suffrage Artists (Francis Boutle, 2018). Contributed by Tara Morton (Warwick University) as part of the Mapping British Women Artists 1750-1950 project & Research Group, which is affiliated with The British Art Network (led and supported by Tate and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, with public funding provided by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. 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 Myra Luxmoore 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(-21903.890922380222 6711255.7810176425) CUWFA https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/d70ca9318c11fd6d53bf993cdfcbe188.png 514a041a75ed6227815fad4f02e67266 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 Ernestine in her Kensington studio wearing heat shield face protector. Source & copyright: Irene Cockroft https://artjewelryforum.org/articles/ernestine-mills-angel-of-hope/ https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/8119a13a35583ea72b7a3e814186964c.jpg 4ef28782a6d227e0c9b6d3d7bcfa8743 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 Ernestine Mills (mirror with enamelled copper plate) circa 1905. Source: V&A Museum (136.1958). https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/732286cf6306ef2eff3ab67fc20c80bd.jpg 611066efc2e45fa95692a06ad6de304a 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 Anti Suffragist' postcard published by Ernestine Mills. Source: The Women's Library, LSE. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/e4845dac05e58d80b332c8a9f9c82cee.png d86f72664da4d84937dc8342b92aba0c 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 Angel of Hope pendant (1909) by Ernestine Mills presented to WSPU Kensington branch Secretary Louise Eates. Source & copyright: Irene Cockroft/Museum of London. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/ba8ca80eec20b2ee7d15b31de19553ec.jpg 6737c95d40b5398e2fa5813c723c5e41 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 1911 census record for Ernestine's home at 21 St Mary Abbotts Terrace, Kensington. The Mills were away in Dorset on holiday so it was completed by their servants. Source: courtesy The National Archives. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/7dbfe7cafcea153f1f858013287c2fff.jpg 0ecda3f2304a877d358940d8fead143c 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 Mills were recorded on the 1911 census holidaying in Dorset. Source: courtesy The National Archives. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Artist in silver & enamel 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 21 St Mary Abbotts Terrace, 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 Complies Biographical Text Ernestine Mills (1871-1959) was born in Hastings, Sussex, to Major Thomas Evans Bell and his wife Emily. They had two daughters, but Ernestine’s elder sister died aged nine in 1878. Both Ernestine’s parents were supportive of female suffrage. Her father had belonged in 1868 (just after its founding) to the London National Society for Women’s Suffrage; in 1866 her mother had signed the first nationally organised suffrage petition; and both had been members of the Central Committee of the National Society for Women’s Suffrage 1871-2. In the 1890s, Ernestine attended the Slade school of art also taking classes at Finsbury Central Technical School and the South Kensington School of Art where she focussed on enamelling. In 1898, she married medical Dr Herbert Mills and the couple had a daughter Hermia in 1902. Often considered the death knell for women’s artistic careers, marriage and motherhood did not dint Ernestine’s who exhibited widely from 1900 with the Royal Academy; the Royal Miniature Society; and the Society of Women Artists among others. She served her apprenticeship with pre-Raphaelite artist Frederic Shields (he had been a friend to her mother) and later edited a work on his life and letters (1912). By 1909 she was a member of the Fabian Women’s Group and the Women’s Guild of Art. She joined the WSPU in 1907 but does not appear to have participated in its law-breaking activities. She and Herbert did not boycott the 1911 census, one of the more accessible forms of suffragette activism, but instead complied. They were recorded away on holiday in Dorset on the census, their servants filling in the form for their usual address (where they are located on the map) at 21 St Mary Abbotts Terrace, Kensington, in their absence. Ernestine published two suffrage postcards independently: ‘The Anti-Suffragist’ and ‘The New Mrs Partington’. She also produced and sold enamelled jewellery to raise funds for the WSPU. Ernestine made enamelled silver pendants awarded to Louise Eates (secretary of the Kensington WSPU) and Leila Cadiz (pseudonym ‘Margaret Murphy’ an Irish hunger-striking suffragette) and her work continued for the cause after the cause was won. In 1930, she enamelled a portrait of constitutional campaign leader Lady France Balfour and in 1950, made an enamel plaque to commemorate the Brackenbury sisters (see) and their mother’s work during the campaign (commissioned by the Suffragette Fellowship). The plaque still adorns the Brackenburys former Kensington home. Sources: Elizabeth Crawford, Art and Suffrage: A Biographical Dictionary of Suffrage Artists (Francis Boutle 2018); Irene Cockroft, New Dawn Women: Women in the Arts and Crafts and Suffrage Movements at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century (Watts 2005) & Ernestine Mills: Angel of Hope https://artjewelryforum.org/articles/ernestine-mills-angel-of-hope/. Contributed by Tara Morton (Warwick University) as part of the Mapping British Women Artists 1750-1950 project & Research Group, which is affiliated with The British Art Network (led and supported by Tate and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, with public funding provided by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. 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 Ernestine Mills 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(-22592.068014368444 6709848.392116847)