Art, Theatre and Women's Suffrage

Irene Cockroft is an independent exhibition curator, author and lecturer specialising in the story of women's involvement in the late 19th and early 20th-century Arts & Crafts and Suffrage movements. Irene is the great-niece of suffrage artist and enameller Ernestine Mills (1871-1959). She represents a direct link with the Women's Suffrage campaign. Her writing includes New Dawn Women - Women In The Arts & Crafts and Suffrage Movements At The Dawn Of The 20th Century (Watts Gallery, 2005).Dr Susan Croft has done extensive research and published widely on women playwrights. Her work includes Classic Plays by Women (Aurora Metro Books, 2010); Votes for Women and other plays (Aurora Metro Books, 2009) and She Also Wrote Plays (Faber 2001). From 1997 to 2005 she was the Curator of Contemporary Performance at the Theatre Museum in London.

• INTRODUCTION1. THE EARLY YEARSThe New Woman XThe Struggle for Women's Suffrage: The 1866 Petition XThe Cause behind the Campaign X2. THE CAMPAIGNNational Union of Women's Suffrage Societies XWomen's Social & Political Union XWomen's Freedom League X3. THE ANTIsNational League for Opposing Women's Suffrage XThe Arguments Against X4. ART FOR VOTES' SAKEAnnie Swynnerton XXSylvia Pankhurst XXErnestine Mills XXOlive Hockin XXEdith Hinchley XXMay Morris XXEmily Ford XXClemence Housman XXA Patriot (Alfred Pearse) XXFlying Colours: Suffrage Banners XXMary Lowndes XXPhotographers XXLena Connell XXThe Anti League in Art XX5. PERFORMING WOMEN'S SUFFRAGERevolting Women: The Monstrous Regiments XXJoan of Arc XXPilgrimage XXFuneral X6. ACTING UP! THE ACTRESSES FRANCHISE LEAGUEActresses, Writers and Stage DesignersInez Bensusan XXEllen Terry Cicely Hamilton XXEdith Craig XXChristopher St John XXElizabeth Robins XXPamela Colman Smith XXSome other feminist theatresThe Pioneer Players XXThe Play Actors XXThe Propaganda Players XXPerformances at WSPU's Women's Suffrage Exhibition,Princes' Skating Rink, Knightsbridge for 13-26 May 1909 XXPerformances at National WSPU's Christmas Fairand Festival, 1911 XXOther Players:Lena Ashwell XXElizabeth Baker XXJenny (Mrs Herbert) Cohen XXJess Dorynne XXBeatrice Forbes Robertson XXGertrude Elliott XXGabrielle Enthoven XXRosina Filippi XXBeatrice Harraden XXKate Harvey XXBessie Hatton XXMarian Emma Holmes XXAnnie Horniman XXLaurence Housman XXViolet Hunt XXGertrude Jennings XXDame Madge Kendal XXDame Edith Lyttelton XXMargaret Mack XXWinifred Mayo XXLillah McCarthy XXM. Slieve McGowan XXDecima Moore XXEva Moore XXMargaret Wynne Nevinson XXAdela Pankhurst XX'George Paston' XXMadeleine Lucette Ryley XXSime Seruya XXAthene Seyler XXMabel Annie St Clair Stobart XXSybil Thorndyke XXIrene Vanbrugh XXViolet Vanbrugh XXVera Wentworth XXEdith Zangwill XXIsrael Zangwill XX7. MUSICMarch of the Women XXEthel Smyth XX8. SPREADING THE WORDPlatform Speakers XXLady Frances Balfour XXRose Lamartine Yates XXThe Garden Party XX9. FORMS OF PROTESTTax Resistance XXCensus Boycott XXThe Argument of the Broken Window XXKitty Marion XXLilian Lenton XXHunger Strikes XX10. OFF WITH CORSETS! THE FASHION REVOLUTION11. GILDING THE LILYBadges XXPresentation Jewellery XXPersonal Jewellery XX12.CONTEMPORARYRESPONSESTO THESUFFRAGEMOVEMENTTelevision XXTheatre XXArt XXAnn Dingsdale and the 1866 Women's Suffrage PetitionHistory Recorded in the Subversive Stitch Four Generations XX13. 1832-1928: THREE GENERATIONS OF WOMENDEDICATE THEIR LIVES TO WINNING EQUALITY14. THE LONG CENTURY OF CATCHING UP FORWOMEN WORLDWIDEAPPENDIX XXANTHEMS OF THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT XX

What a fabulous book. Certainly recommend it strongly when I give talks, etc. Great there's so much in it about their marketing strategies, use of visual devices, etc and the strong staging opportunities such as Emily D's funeral. They were so much before their time.' Susan Homewood, Sylvia Pankhurst Trust ... this is not a book about the gesture. It's a story of connected and concerted bravery... a compelling reminder of a fierce and quietly-neglected artistic movement. Exeunt Magazine