Virginia Mary Crawford
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Virginia Mary Crawford was a British Catholic suffragist, feminist, journalist and author, cited in the publicised Dilke scandal and divorce in 1886, founder of the Catholic Women's Suffrage Society.
The Women's Coronation Procession, June 1911
Photograph of a 1925 meeting, with Alice Paul on the left, Virginia Crawford sitting one from the right, of the British Section of an International Advisory Committee to the National Woman's Party
Charlotte Despard
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Charlotte Despard was an Anglo-Irish suffragist, socialist, pacifist, Sinn Féin activist, and novelist. She was a founding member of the Women's Freedom League, the Women's Peace Crusade, and the Irish Women's Franchise League, and an activist in a wide range of political organizations over the course of her life, including among others the Women's Social and Political Union, Humanitarian League, Labour Party, Cumann na mBan, and the Communist Party of Great Britain.
Despard and Anne Cobden-Sanderson outside No. 10 Downing St prior to being arrested on 19 August 1909
Charlotte Despard (2nd right) at the WFL offices with Edith How-Martyn, Mrs Sproson and Miss Tite
Tree planted by Charlotte Despard at Eagle House, Batheaston