Women's Freedom League]]>
Edith How Martyn (c. 1875-1954) was the joint Honorary Secretary of the WSPU and, from 1907 co-founder and Honorary Secretary of the Women's Freedom League. In 1906 she became one of the first Suffragettes to be imprisoned in Holloway, after being arrested outside the House of Commons. In 1911 she became Honorary Head of the Political and Militancy Department of the WFL until April 1912. (Museum of London). How-Martyn was also an advocate of birth control.

On the verso, the card is addressed to Valenciennes France, and postmarked 1909. The handwritten message reads: "One of the "suffragettes" in whose book I have recently taken some interest. / I think I see you speaking to a large "meeting." [F.N.?]]]>
Great Britain. Prime Minister (1908-1916 : Asquith)
Suffrage Atelier]]>

The Suffrage Atelier was a publishing collective founded in 1909 to produce items for the suffrage movement. It had loose ties to the Women's Freedom League.]]>
Women--Suffrage--Great Britain
Women's Freedom League]]>
Billington-Greig, Teresa, 1877-1964
Despard, C. (Charlotte), 1844-1939
How-Martyn, Edith
Women's Freedom League
Women--Suffrage--Great Britain]]>

The Women's Freedom League was founded in 1907 in the United Kingdom by a group of members of the Women's Social and Political Union, including Teresa Billington Greig, Charlotte Despard, and Edith How-Martyn, to campaign for women's suffrage. The League opposed the use of violence and suspended their activities during World War I. They resumed lobbying in 1916. At the time of publication, Charlotte Despard was serving as president.]]>
Women--Suffrage--Finland
Feminism--Women's organizations and clubs
Political and social reform--Suffrage]]>
Despard, C. (Charlotte)
Great Britain. Magistrates' Court (London : Bow Street)
Healy, T. M. (Timothy Michael), 1855-1931
Women--Suffrage--Great Britain
Women's Freedom League]]>

Healy (1855-1931) was an Irish Nationalist leader and a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. ]]>
Healy, T. M. (Timothy Michael), 1855-1931]]>
Women--Suffrage--Newspapers
Women's Freedom League]]>

This issue contains articles including:
"Why we want the vote: the woman journalist" by E.M. Tait; "The Hour and the Bill" by M. Slieve McGowan; "A Suffragette in the Shops" and "Women at Work: Mrs. Clara Edwards" as well as information about an upcoming suffrage procession on June 17th.]]>
Published from 1909-1933]]>