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10 Battleground for democracy

Census versus women’s citizenship
  • Jill Liddington
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Abstract

On one side of the battleground stood Charlotte Despard's WFL, the Pankhursts’ WSPU, the Tax Resistance League and Laurence Housman. On the other lined up Sadler and Scott, John Burns and the progressive Liberal reformers. Alongside was the giant NUWSS, keenly supporting the new Conciliation Bill yet opposing the boycott as irresponsible & ineffective civil deisobedience. From the suffragette societies (notably WSPU, WFL) fizzed imaginative boycott propaganda: posters, postcards, cartoons. WSPU promised ‘a midnight promenade’ from Trafalgar Square to the Aldwych. Local branches urged members to fill in ‘promises cards’. A census resister's model schedule showed ‘No Vote No Census’ written across. Speakers like Emmeline Pankhurst, Charlotte Despard and Laurence Housman criss-crossed the country at dizzying speed. However, local suffragettes often encountered fierce opposition. In Halifax, Emmeline was accused by the local Unitarian minister of attempting something ‘grossly immmoral’. In Sheffield, a NUWSS woman doctor crossed swords with Adela Pankhurst, local WSPU organizer. Final boycott plans were laid. In Manchester, Jessie Stephenson rented a suburban mansion for census weekend. Meanwhile, at the Census Office in London, bundles of schedules were piled high, ready for delivery by an army of 35,000 local enumerators.

Abstract

On one side of the battleground stood Charlotte Despard's WFL, the Pankhursts’ WSPU, the Tax Resistance League and Laurence Housman. On the other lined up Sadler and Scott, John Burns and the progressive Liberal reformers. Alongside was the giant NUWSS, keenly supporting the new Conciliation Bill yet opposing the boycott as irresponsible & ineffective civil deisobedience. From the suffragette societies (notably WSPU, WFL) fizzed imaginative boycott propaganda: posters, postcards, cartoons. WSPU promised ‘a midnight promenade’ from Trafalgar Square to the Aldwych. Local branches urged members to fill in ‘promises cards’. A census resister's model schedule showed ‘No Vote No Census’ written across. Speakers like Emmeline Pankhurst, Charlotte Despard and Laurence Housman criss-crossed the country at dizzying speed. However, local suffragettes often encountered fierce opposition. In Halifax, Emmeline was accused by the local Unitarian minister of attempting something ‘grossly immmoral’. In Sheffield, a NUWSS woman doctor crossed swords with Adela Pankhurst, local WSPU organizer. Final boycott plans were laid. In Manchester, Jessie Stephenson rented a suburban mansion for census weekend. Meanwhile, at the Census Office in London, bundles of schedules were piled high, ready for delivery by an army of 35,000 local enumerators.

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