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'Being militant in her own way'
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Spiers, Lesley |
| Copyright Year | 2020 |
| Description | Book Name: The British Women’s Suffrage Campaign |
| Abstract | This chapter argues that a longitudinal study of an individual woman, in this case Lady Isabel Margesson, provides tantalising opportunities to understand suffrage histories and post-suffrage women’s politics in new and more complex ways. Isabel Margesson, who resided in rural Worcestershire, was not a revered leader of the suffrage movement, and yet the plethora of campaigns and organisations she was involved in present an illuminating insight into the ways women could forge multiple allegiances within and beyond the suffrage movement. Lady Margesson was actively involved in both the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies and the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU). Undermining the popular myth that women simply belonged to one group or the other, she regularly spoke on the platforms for both organisations, and for the Women’s Tax Resistance League, but increasingly prioritised the WSPU. She was a fierce supporter of militant action and articulated this at every opportunity, and in 1914 chaired a meeting in Glasgow where Mrs Pankhurst was arrested. Although she stopped short of direct engagement in law-breaking she was reported to have paid the fines for those engaged in such activities including that of her eldest daughter, a WSPU paid organiser in Reading. Lady Margesson’s interests were not confined to suffrage campaigns or her enthusiastic engagement with the war effort that followed. She belonged to an eclectic group of organisations, representing a multitude of politically ambivalent campaigns, sometimes at odds with one another. She was a JP, proponent of vegetarianism, a member of the Eugenics Society, part of the higher echelons of the National Federation of Women’s Institutes, supported the National Council for the Unmarried Mother and her Child and promoted Montessori and Froebel education, women police, and Anti-Vivisection. Lady Isabel’s life blended philanthropic and domestic skills, articulating women’s issues which, like her suffrage work, encouraged other women to express their voices and fears on private and public concerns. |
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| DOI | 10.4324/9781003023296-7 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2020-12-30 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: The British Women’s Suffrage Campaign Cultural Studies History Child Engagement Societies Articulating Militant Suffrage Belonged Lady Isabel Lady Margesson |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
