RichardB Posted June 8, 2008 Share Posted June 8, 2008 Where was the Sheffield base for the Suffragette movement please ? (i.e. the address in 1919) Do we have any names of participants ? Any relatives involved ? Any pictures ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted June 8, 2008 Author Share Posted June 8, 2008 N.U.W.S.S.- The Suffrage Pilgrimage leaving Sheffield via Pinstone Street http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/pi...ff.refno=s02941 PictureSheffield Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted June 8, 2008 Author Share Posted June 8, 2008 sandsoftimeconsultancy.com/.../_download/WomenandtheirforgottenroleinSlaverysynopsiswebsite.doc Extract : Anne Knight, a Quaker who worked closely with Thomas Clarkson had argued for immediate abolition of slavery without compensation. Her contribution to the anti-slavery campaign was recognised when a village for Jamaican freed slaves was named Knightsville. Anne was furious when women delegates were not allowed to speak at the World Antislavery Convention held in London. The behaviour of the male leaders inspired Knight to start a campaign advocating equal rights for women. This included having gummed labels printed with feminist quotations that she attached to the outside of her letters. In 1847 she published what is believed to be the first leaflet on women's suffrage, and established the first association for women's suffrage, which first meet in Sheffield in 1851. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syrup Posted June 8, 2008 Share Posted June 8, 2008 Where was the Sheffield base for the Suffragette movement please ? (i.e. the address in 1919) Do we have any names of participants ? Any relatives involved ? Any pictures ? Hi RiichardB Found this reference to a Suffragette Shop on Chapel Walk. Brief but telling references are made to class divisions among suffragettes both in Manchester and Sheffield. Molly discovered for herself that many of them were really only interested in opening the professions to women and not in transforming society on socialist lines. (However, the Murphys sent their son Gordon to Bedales, a progressive, private school.) In the course of her work as suffragette organiser Miss Schuster, a spinster, we are told, used to firebomb pillar boxes. The tea shop across the road was used as a hiding place for the incendiary materials. The suffragette shop in Chapel Walk soon became a magnet for working men who acted as bodyguards at meetings. Eventually some of the committee ladies objected to the presence of the men and Molly resigned in protest. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa37...107/ai_n8962968 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted June 18, 2008 Author Share Posted June 18, 2008 Revisiting this I find I've forgotten the answer; but if I can find it, so can you - then you can let me know and I can say "Oh Yes, that's right" <How very Camp> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HughW Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 White's 1919/20 Directory Campo Chambers (30 Campo Lane) Sheffield Womens' Suffrage Society note also my earlier suffragette query. from an earlier message in this thread... Anne was furious when women delegates were not allowed to speak at the World Antislavery Convention held in London. Ann KNIGHT is listed as a sitter in a well known painting of this event - NPG 599 Somewhere I have a key to this portrait because my 4xgt grandfather (Isaac Crewdson - no Sheffield connection) is also in it, a larger than average pate painted very small near the back. It would not surprise me to learn that he was one of those objecting to the presence of women. The first thing he did when he founded his own sect after resigning from the Quakers was to prohibit women from being ministers. If I manage to find the key I will try and work out where Ann is. Hugh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HughW Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 Ann KNIGHT seems to have been from Essex... Ann Knight photo Her dates here are not the same as those quoted on the National Portrait Gallery site. Hugh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted June 18, 2008 Author Share Posted June 18, 2008 That would appear to be that; sorry if its been done before, but well found that Hugh... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted June 18, 2008 Author Share Posted June 18, 2008 Suffrage Society/Suffragette - just playing my games - I can set 'em, can't solve 'em ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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