Postcard : Mrs. E[dith] How-Martyn A.R.C.S. B. [Circa 1909]
How-Martyn, Edith, 1875-1954
Women's Freedom League
Photographic portrait postcard of Edith How-Martyn, Honorary Secretary of the Women's Freedom League, with the organization's address.
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.?]
Cleare, George Ridsdale, 1868-1929
London : Women's Freedom League
[Circa 1909]
Postcard : In the dim and speculative future. [Circa 1910]
Asquith, H. H. (Herbert Henry), 1852-1928
Great Britain. Prime Minister (1908-1916 : Asquith)
Suffrage Atelier
Postcard designed by Gladys Letcher of the Suffrage Atelier, contains an illustration of Prime Minister Asquith delaying the vote for woman's suffrage.
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.
Letcher, Gladys (illustrator)
London : Suffrage Atelier
[Circa 1910]
Pamphlet : Votes for women and the public health. 1912
Public health--Great Britain
Women--Suffrage--Great Britain
Women's Freedom League
Guest, Leslie H. (Leslie Haden), 1877-
London : Women's Freedom League
1912
8 p.
English
DOCU.1912.09
Handbill : Why women need the vote. [Circa 1909-1912]
Bennett, Sarah
Billington-Greig, Teresa, 1877-1964
Despard, C. (Charlotte), 1844-1939
How-Martyn, Edith
Women's Freedom League
Women--Suffrage--Great Britain
Flyer provides the Women's Freedom League objective and the League officers, followed by a list of eight reasons for women's suffrage. The flyer also contains a membership appeal along the bottom.
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's Freedom League
London : Women's Freedom League
[Circa 1909-1912]
1 p.
English
DOCU.1000.91
Pamphlet : Woman Suffrage in Finland by Madame Aino Malmberg. [Circa 1910-1913]
Women's Freedom League (London, England)
Women--Suffrage--Finland
Feminism--Women's organizations and clubs
Political and social reform--Suffrage
Aino Malmberg was a Finnish politician and writer. In this essay she recounts the history of Finnish women's suffrage and the events that led to women's right to vote. She also discusses the impact of women's vote on the political parties, families, children, and moral issues.
Malmberg, Aino M. Perenius, 1865-1933
London : Women's Freedom League
[Circa 1910-1913]
9 [1] p.
English
DOCU.1000.11
Pamphlet : Votes for women. [Speech in defence of members of the Women's Freedom League at Bow Street Police Court. August 19th, 1909].
Arrest
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
On Thursday, August 19th 1909, eight members of the Women's Freedom League were arrested at different times in Downing Street, where they had gone to present a petition to Prime Minister, H.H. Asquith. The women were charged with 'obstructing the police in the execution of their duty'. Timothy Michael Healy, K.C., M.P. appeared for the defence. Sixteen women were tried in the Bow street police court and ten were sentenced to terms of imprisonment from one month to six weeks.
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.
Women's Freedom League
Healy, T. M. (Timothy Michael), 1855-1931
London : Women's Freedom League
[1912]
16 p.
English
DOCU.1909.12
The Vote: the organ of the Women's Freedom League. Vol. 4, no. 84. June 3, 1911
Women--Suffrage--Great Britain--Periodical
Women--Suffrage--Newspapers
Women's Freedom League
The Vote was an English publication printed from 1909 until 1933.
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.
Women's Freedom League
London : Minerva Publishing Co.
1911-06-03
Despard, C. (Charlotte), 1844-1939, Editor
English
Text
PERI.1911.01
London
Published from 1909-1933