Annie Kenney
English working-class suffragette, the poster girl of the Women’s Social and Political Union.
Emma Lister-Kaye
Colliery owner in Overton near Wakefield in the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1871 until 1905.
Liber Poenitentialis
Set of 7th-century ecclesiastical laws applied to women – and only women – perfoming acts such as divination, raising storms, or murder by the use of magic.
Convent of Poor Clares, Gravelines
Convent in the Spanish Netherlands (now in northern France), founded in 1607 by Mary Ward, a community of English nuns of the Order of St Clare. Commonly called the Poor Clares.
Ethel Beatty
Ethel Beatty was a socialite and member of the aristocracy.
Commonwealth (Adultery) Act 1650
Act passed by the Rump Parliament in 1650 making fornication, adultery and incest secular offences.
Women’s Suffrage Journal
Magazine founded by Lydia Becker and Jessie Boucherett in 1870, focusing on news of events affecting women’s lives.
Punishment of Incest Act 1908
Act of Parliament making it illegal for the first time in England and Wales for a man to engage in sexual intercourse with any female he knew to be his grand-daughter, daughter, sister, half-sister, or mother.
Cat and Mouse Act 1913
Act of Parliament intended to deal with the public outcry resulting from the treatment of suffragettes who went on hunger strike while in prison.
Dorothy Legh
Born Dorothy Egerton (1565–1639), also known as Dorothy Brereton, Lady of the Manor of Worsley, was a coal owner and benefactor of Ellenbrook Chapel near her home in Worsley, Lancashire.