Feminist and pacifist. NUWSS, editor of Common Cause, internationalist, pacifist. Mainly metropolitan based.
Born in Munich as Helena Maria Lucy Sickert, sister to Walter Sickert. Married the Manchester University lecturer Frederick Swanwick in 1888.
The growth of fascism affected her deeply and, following the outbreak of WW2, she died by suicide at her home in Maidenhead. The photo shows her in 1909.
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Helena Swanwick
Chairperson of the North of England Society for Women’s Suffrage. Manchester’s first woman councillor. Active in women’s peace campaigns during First World War. The photograph shows her at the Manc...
Women's activist. Born Clementia Doughty at Brockdish, Norfolk. She married Peter Alfred Taylor in 1842, and they became involved with many social and political movements, particularly anti-slavery...
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton, Lady Stirling-Maxwell, was an active English social reformer and author. She left her husband in 1836. He sued her close friend Lord Melbourne, then the Prime Minis...
The first woman to serve on the West Ham council and an advocate of welfare for women and children. Was offered the Mayoralty but in view of her advancing years and increasing deafness she declined...
Person, Gender Issues, Politics & Administration, Social Welfare
Anti-slavery movement and women’s suffrage. Executive member of NUWSS. Priscilla Bright McLaren was an activist who served and linked the anti-slavery movement with the women's suffrage movement i...
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