Women’s Tax Resistance League
Suffragette group active from 1909 until 1918, encouraging woman to protest against their disenfranchisement by refusing to pay taxes.
Deceased Wife’s Sister’s Marriage Act 1907
Act of Parliament making it legal for the first time in the United Kingdom for a man to marry his dead wife’s sister.
Florence Norman
British social campaigner and suffragist.
Meriel Talbot
British public servant and women’s welfare worker, (1866–1956).
Gladys Pott
An English anti-suffragist and civil servant, author of The Anti-Suffrage Handbook of Facts, Statistics and Quotations for the Use of Speakers
Katherine Harley
Suffragist who in 1913 organised the Great Pilgrimage, a march along six routes to converge on Hyde Park, London, where a rally in support of women’s suffrage was held.
Great Pilgrimage
March in 1913 by suffragists from all over England Wales to London, in support of the campaign for votes for women.
Adele Meyer
Adele Meyer, Lady Meyer, (1862/3–1930) was an English socialite, social reformer, philanthopist and suffragist.
Herring girls
Women and girls who travelled across Scotland to gut and pack fish in the fishing ports on the east coast of Britain.
Annie Kenney
English working-class suffragette, the poster girl of the Women’s Social and Political Union.