Men's League for Women's Suffrage (United Kingdom)
The Men's League for Women's Suffrage was a society formed in 1907 in London and was part of the women's suffrage movement in the United Kingdom.[1]
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| Formation | 1907 (UK) |
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| Founders | Henry Brailsford et al (UK) |
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History
editThe society formed in 1907 in London by Henry Brailsford, Charles Corbett, Henry Nevinson, Laurence Housman, C. E. M. Joad, Hugh Franklin, Henry Harben, Gerald Gould, Charles Mansell-Moullin, Israel Zangwill and 32 others.[1] Graham Moffat founded the Northern Men's League for Women's Suffrage in Glasgow also in 1907 and wrote a suffrage propaganda play, The Maid and the Magistrate.[2]
Bertrand Russell stood as a suffrage candidate in the 1907 Wimbledon by election.[1]
By 1910 Henry Brailsford and Lord Lytton had, with Millicent Fawcett's permission, created a proposal that might have been the basis of an agreement that caused the suffrage movement to declare a truce on 14 February.[3]
In 1911 they successfully took Liberals in Bradford to court for assaulting Alfred Hawkins. Alfred had shouted a question during a speech by Winston Churchill and he was ejected from the hall without warning. The judge considered this to be assault. Hawkins had received a fractured kneecap and he was awarded £100 plus costs.[4] The group heard from orators including George Lansbury, Edith Mansell-Moullin, and Victor Duval in March 1912. Speakers there expressed their disgust at the treatment of William Ball, a male suffrage supporter and hunger striker, for being not only force-fed but effectively driven to lunacy and separated from his family by the authorities.[5] Nevison produced a pamphlet on his case for the League, with the subtitle "Official Brutality on the increase".[6]
See also
edit- Women's Social and Political Union, which included male members in the Men’s Political Union for Women’s Enfranchisement (MPU).
- Women's suffrage
References
edit- ^ a b c "Men's League for Women's Suffrage". Spartacus Educational. Retrieved 11 June 2018.
- ^ Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: a reference guide 1866-1928, Routledge, 1999
- ^ Jane Marcus (15 April 2013). Suffrage and the Pankhursts. Routledge. pp. 309–. ISBN 978-1-135-03397-2.
- ^ "Alice Hawkins Suffragette, the History of Women's Rights - Alfred's Life". www.alicesuffragette.co.uk. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
- ^ Atkinson, Diane (2018). Rise up, women! : the remarkable lives of the suffragettes. London: Bloomsbury. pp. 289, 293. ISBN 9781408844045. OCLC 1016848621.
- ^ "Men's League for Women's Suffrage", Wikipedia, 26 October 2019, retrieved 9 November 2019
External links
edit- Women's suffrage societes (archived 14 May 2006)