Victorian feminism

I can't remember how it happened, but last spring in a discussion on Facebook, a decision was made to host a Suffragette Tea. I know I was beginning to research the Hello Girls for the Centennial of the WWI armistice and somehow, this being an election year, it just seemed the thing to do! 1918 was a big year in the Women's Suffrage movement. In 1918, President Wilson switched his stand on women’s voting rights from objection to support . Wilson partially tied the proposed suffrage amendment…

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To coincide with the nationwide release of the film Suffragette, the official watchlist containing details of over 1,300 suffragette arrests has been published online by Ancestry, in association with The National Archives. Digitised from the original record held at The National Archives in Kew, the online collection – England, Suffragettes Arrested, 1906-1914 – lists the names […]

One hundred years ago today, on Jan. 12, 1915, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to reject a constitutional amendment that would have given women the right to vote. The final vote — 204 against and 174 for — came at the end of a 10-hour debate. It was not until five years later, in 1919, that the 19th Amendment passed, giving the vote to all American women. (Women had only previously been permitted to vote in certain states.) Here's a collection of dramatic photos from the women's…

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International Quilt Museum Collection 1997.007.0859 Turkey red on white signature quilt dated 1850 & 1851, Boston, Massachusetts 37 signatures, most affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church. Looking at Boston-made quilts brings up a curious fact about the city's 19th-century female population. See some discussion of Cambridge in Boston last week: https://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-banks-brigade-of-cambridge.html The 1850 Massachusetts census shows the state with nearly…

A striking photograph of Emmeline Pankhurst being dragged away by policeman during suffragette protests has been revamped in honour of her birthday tomorrow.

Read about the life of one of the most famous suffragettes who sacrificed her life in the name of women's rights.

by Hannah Rose Virginia Woolf stated in her 1929 seminal essay A Room of One’s Own that, because women remain unequal to men in society, they are less likely to succeed as writers. A writer has two…

Peter Ackroyd writes that “The Brontës,” by Juliet Barker, a comprehensive and sensible biography of Charlotte, Anne, and Emily Brontë, takes a stand against the sisters’ legend.

No, females aren't always choosy and males don't always get around

Join a one-hour, docent-led tour of Votes for Women: A Visual History, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, followed by an afternoon tea in the Millstone Café complete with tea sandwiches, pastries and mini desserts.

Cicely Hamilton wrote the words – the sketches were supplied leading suffrage artists: Mary Lowndes, Dora Meeson Coates, C. Hedley Charlton – and the ‘Rhyme Book’ was…

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