Centenary of a suffragette

... oldest living suffragette in Britain. She remembers the Tower incident well. LEONORA COHEN, once a bodyguard for Mrs. Pankhurst, and thrown into jail for her activities as a suffragette, was 100 years old this month. After her suffragette days she was ...

Published: Tuesday 26 June 1973
Newspaper: Kent Evening Post
County: Kent, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 357 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

WHEN THE SUFFRAGETTES RULR

... WHEN THE SUFFRAGETTES RULR. While the relief cases were being taken the Relieving Officer said that a cortain man ought to be sent to giol for wix weeks, and Mr. Batchelar remarked that that would happen when the suffragettes ruled, blt uatil theu the ...

SUFFRAGETTES EENT TO PRISON

... SUFFRAGETTES EENT TO PRISON Ten women ‘suflragists who made a distarbance in the outer lobby of the Honw of Commons on the reasscmbly of Parliament, appeared before a mogistrate at Westminstor on Wednesday on a charge of dsorderly behaviour in the Houses ...

THE FORGOTTEN SUFFRAGETTE AGITATION

... THE FORGOTTEN SUFFRAGETTE AGITATION. The feminist movement has advanced far since the days when the suffragette agitation was in the limelight of public affairs. It was abandored in the ecarly days of the Great \War, and most of the originators of militantism ...

SUFFRAGETTE SCENE IN DULWICH

... SUFFRAGETTE SCENE IN DULWICH WALE SYMPATNISHIMI FILTH , WITM MISS. Luther Wilke 1211, • Henna& clerk, of Lard- Ship-lane. Dulwich, charged at Low beta au Monday with Wing whereby a breach of the poses might have bees •eatalosed.—The ewe WM NA el tarbaleat ...

Published: Friday 19 June 1914
Newspaper: South London Press
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 359 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

SUFFRAGETTES PASSIVE RESISTERS

... SUFFRAGETTES PASSIVE RESISTERS A Suffragette was summoned at the Farnham Petty Sessions for non-payment of rates. Her excuse was that her name was not on the voters’ list. On an order for payment bein made she defiantly exclaimed that she wouls not pay ...

Suffragettes go on the march for play

... Suffragettes go on the march for play SCARBOROUGH will be invaded by a group of suffragettes tomorrow. St A_ t 10 women will march through the town centre before chaining themselves to the railings outside the Stephen Joseph Theatre. It’s all to publicise ...

Published: Thursday 26 September 1996
Newspaper: Scarborough Evening News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 144 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Play features life of suffragette

... Play features life of suffragette DONCASTER Arts Cooperative Theatre Company have had a play written especially for them by the eminent Yorkshire born feminist writer Sheila Rowbotham, entitled The Life of Alice Wheeldon. It concerns the life of the ...

MILITANT SUFFRAGETTES ADMIRED AND CONDEMNED

... MILITANT SUFFRAGETTES ADMIRED AND CONDEMNED. “ Women's Suffrage” was the attractive subject at a largely attended conference, under the auspices of the Bracebridge Women's Libera] Association, in the Free Methodist schoolroom, on Wednesday even- Miss ...

WREATH LAID AT SUFFRAGETTE'’S

... WREATH LAID AT SUFFRAGETTE'’S GRAVE Miss Emily Wilding Davison, the well-known Morpeth suffragette, who died after throwing herself in front of the King's horse in the Derby, was buried in Morpeth Churchyard exactly 45 years ago last Sunday The daughter ...

Published: Friday 20 June 1958
Newspaper: Morpeth Herald
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 215 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

TO LOUTH. Suffragettes Hide inthe Town Hall

... TO LOUTH. Suffragettes Hide inthe Town Hall The Chanesllor of the Exchequer addressed a crowded mecting in the Town Hall at Louth, on Saturdsy, in '}f of the candidature of Mr, Timothy Davies, 1o was subject to considerabie interruplion from suffragettes ...