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Sunday, November 07, 2010

Women Writers Suffrage League



"to obtain the vote for women on the same terms as it is or may be granted to men. Its methods are those proper to writers - the use of the pen."

In 1908 two members of the Women's Social and Political Union, Cicely Hamilton and Bessie Hatton, formed the Women Writers Suffrage League (WWSL). The WWSL stated that its object was "to obtain the vote for women on the same terms as it is or may be granted to men. Its methods are those proper to writers - the use of the pen." Women writers who joined the organisation included Beatrice HarradenElizabeth RobinsCharlotte DespardAlice MeynellMargaret NevinsonEvelyn Sharp and Marie Belloc Lowndes. Sympathetic male writers such as Israel Zangwill and Laurence Housman, were allowed to become "Honorary Men Associates".

The WWSL worked closely with the Actresses' Franchise League (AFL). Inez Bensusan oversaw the writing, collection and publication of Actress Franchise League plays. Pro-suffragette plays written by members of the WWSL and performed by the AFL included the play How the Vote was Won a play co-written by Christabel Marshall and Cicely Hamilton. Other popular playsincluded Votes for Women by Elizabeth Robins and Hamilton's A Pageant of Great Women.

Spartacus Educational


Retrieved November 7, 2010

For more information see: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2010 "The Use of the Pen" - Women Writers, Banners and Cat Tails http://lightbrightandsparkling.blogspot.com/2010/09/use-of-pen-women-writers-and-their.html




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