Men's League for Women's Suffrage
Posted 13 April 2006 - 10:14 AM
Robert Cecil, one of the main figures in the Conservative Party was also a supporter but most were totally opposed to the idea of votes for women. Several members of the Liberal administration, such as David Lloyd George, also favoured women being granted the vote. In 1907, several left-wing writers, including Henry Nevinson, Laurence Housman, Henry Brailsford and 37 other men formed the Men's League for Women's Suffrage and three years later the Men's Political Union for Women's Enfranchisement was established. At a by-election in Wimbledon in 1907 Bertrand Russell, stood as the Suffragist candidate.
In October, 1912, George Lansbury decided to draw attention to the plight of WSPU prisoners by resigning his seat in the House of Commons and fighting a by-election in favour of votes for women. Lansbury discovered that a large number of males were still opposed to equal rights for women and he was defeated by 731 votes. The following year he was imprisoned for making speeches in favour of suffragettes who were involved in illegal activities. While in Pentonville he went on hunger strike and was eventually released under the Cat and Mouse Act.
Posted 13 April 2006 - 10:52 AM
The Franklin Papers at the Women's Library
Edited by Dan Lyndon, 13 April 2006 - 10:54 AM.
Posted 13 April 2006 - 11:25 AM
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