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Anna Munro advertising the Scottish Women's Freedom League. Women's suffrage was the seeking of the right of women to vote in elections. It was carried out by both men and women, it was a very elongated and gruelling campaign that went on for 86 years before the Representation of the People Act 1918 was introduced on 6 February 1918, which provided a few women with the right to vote.
This came to an end when Eliza Wigham, Jane Wigham and some of their friends set up the Edinburgh chapter of the National Society for Women's Suffrage on 6 November 1867. [3] Eliza and her friend Agnes McLaren became the secretaries, [4] Priscilla Bright McLaren was the president and Elizabeth Pease was the treasurer.
In 1907 or 1908, Mitchell and her mother attended a suffrage meeting at which Emmeline Pankhurst and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence spoke. Lilias joined the Women's Social and Political Union at that meeting. [2] In 1910, Mitchell was part of a WSPU march to the House of Commons which was broken up by the police.
Scottish Federation of Women's Suffrage Societies is a Scottish organisation for women's suffrage. [1] It was established in 1910 as an affiliate of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies in London for the constitutional suffrage campaign in Scotland. [1] Those activists largely following peaceful methods were nicknamed as Suffragists ...
The organisation is considered to be a non-militant suffrage association, and although it welcomed male members, it was organised and led by women. [1] Their methods of influence included drawing-room meetings, addressed by prominent male and female suffragists, as well as networking with other organisations, such as The Primrose League, West of Scotland Women's Liberal Unionist Association ...
She became the first Scottish woman to stand for and be elected to a school board. Stub article needs expanded, infobox and pic. Frances Balfour president of the National Society for Women's Suffrage from 1896 to 1914. Could be expanded. Teresa Billington-Greig - Suffragette who helped create the Women's Freedom League. Infobox and headings ...
In 1912, Dr Elsie Inglis spoke at a meeting of the OWSS in her capacity as Honorary Secretary of the Scottish Federation of Women's Suffrage Societies. [5] After the outbreak of WWI and the foundation of the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service in 1914, the women of the OWSS raised a sum of £30 8s 6d which entitled them to name a bed for 6 months.
Crawfurd first became active in the women's suffrage movement in about 1900, then in 1910 at a meeting in Rutherglen. [11] Agreeing with their tactics, Crawfurd became a member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) the same year. [12] Crawfurd was jailed three times for "militant" political activity during her career as an activist. [13]