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Edith Margaret Garrud ( née Williams; 1872–1971) was a British martial artist, suffragist and playwright. She was the first British female teacher of jujutsu and one of the first female martial arts instructors in the western world . Garrud was introduced to jujutsu in 1899 alongside her husband William; they studied under Sadakazu Uyenishi ...
Her brother Edward Gordon Craig (1872–1960) achieved international acclaim for his innovative ideas about scene design and the art of the theater. From 1899, Craig lived with Christabel Marshall (c. 1878–1966), known as Christopher St. John, the author and music critic.
An acknowledged leader in the African American women’s club movement in Chicago, Illinois, she tried to join the prestigious Chicago Woman’s Club in 1894 and, after 14 months of controversy, Williams was admitted to membership. She wrote a history of the “colored” woman’s club movement, published in 1902.
Edith Wharton (/ ˈ hw ɔːr t ən /; born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to portray realistically the lives and morals of the Gilded Age .
Jul 8, 2023 · The campaign for votes for women before the First World War was not a socialist campaign. Though most Chartists had supported universal suffrage, as did later socialists, it is worth remembering that Mrs Pankhurst, the doughtiest leader of the militant suffragettes, joined the Conservative Party in her later years and even stood for Parliament as a Conservative candidate.
The contribution of the fragmentary autobiography of suffragette Jessie Kenney to existing historiography is discussed, while a study of the women’s movement in Ireland draws upon the contribution of new social movement theory.
Feb 6, 2018 · In June 1911, for example, there was a suffrage coronation procession through London where some Indian women were invited to take part, and encouraged to wear their national dress, saris. These ...
