For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is Mercedes de Acosta, an American poet, playwright, and novelist. Her autobiography detailed her love affairs with some of the world’s most famous women. De Acosta, the daughter of affluent Cuban immigrants, grew up in New York where, in the 1920s, she was …
For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is Dr Louisa Martindale, a pioneering surgeon, an ardent suffragist and one of the most influential figures in Brighton in the early 20th century. Martindale’s mother believed that girls should have the same access to education as boys, and because of this she …
Ellen Wilkinson was the first female Minister of Education and the second woman to become a Cabinet Minister. Wilkinson was known by some as “Red Ellen”, as in the early 1920s before she entered Parliament she was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Before entering politics, Wilkinson worked for a women’s suffrage …
Margaret Wintringham was the first female Liberal MP and the first British-born woman to take a seat in Parliament. Winteringham had begun her working life as a school headmistress, a magistrate and a member of the Grimsby Education Committee. She was a member of the National Union of Women Workers, the British Temperance Association, the National Union …
Margaret Bondfield was a British Labour politician, trade unionist and women’s rights activist. She became the first female cabinet minister, and the first woman to be a privy counsellor in the UK Bondfield began work as a shop assistant, after completing her apprenticeship she began work as a living-in assistant where she was shocked by …
Lucy Stone was a leading US suffragist and abolitionist who dedicated her life to battling inequality on all fronts. Stone began to fight against sexism from a young age, she was determined to go to college, even though this was not at all common at the time. She learnt Hebrew and Greek so that she …
Alice Paul was an American suffragist and feminist who dedicated her life to women’s rights. She was one of the leaders of the campaign for the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Paul first learned about the fight for women’s suffrage from her mother, Tacie Paul who was a member of the National American Woman …
Eleanor Rathbone was an independent British MP, social reformer, suffragist and feminist who is best known for her success in fighting for family allowance and women’s rights. Rathbone was born into a influential family in Liverpool, her father was social reformer William Rathbone VI and her mother, his second wife, Emily Lyle. Rathbone’s parents encouraged …
This year marks the centenary of some women gaining the right to vote in the UK. To celebrate this, I have a special #suffrage100 #zine for sale on Etsy! http://etsy.me/2EtCJ2K Edith Mansell Moullin was an English suffragist with Welsh heritage. She founded the Cymric Suffrage Union (CSU) to fight for women’s suffrage for Welsh women. …
Lucy Deane Streatfeild was a social worker, suffragette and one of the first female factory inspectors in the UK. She was one of the first to raise awareness of the health risks of exposure to asbestos. Deane was born in Madras, India to Lieutenant-Colonel Bonar Millett Deane and the Hon. Lucy Boscawen. She was trained …