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Manchester National Society for Women's Suffrage


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 106 2MNS

Held at: Women's Library

Title: Manchester National Society for Women's Suffrage

Date(s): 1871

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 1 volume

Name of creator(s): Manchester National Society for Women's Suffrage

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

This group, initially named the Manchester Committee for the Enfranchisement of Women, was formed in the 1860s, possibly initially to support John Stuart Mill's 1866 suffrage petition. Early members included Elizabeth Wolstenhulme Elmy, Jacob and Ursula Bright, Rev, S.A. Steinthal and Dr. Richard Pankhurst. It was formally re-founded in 1867 to canvass women householders in Manchester to support further suffrage petitions. It became federated to the National Society for Women's Suffrage, changing its name in 1897 to the North of England Society for Women's Suffrage.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Bound and illuminated volume containing a letter of thanks to John Grave, Mayor of Manchester, and signed by the members of the Executive Committee of the Manchester National Society for Women's Suffrage.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

This collection is available for research. Readers are advised to contact The Women's Library in advance of their first visit.

Conditions governing reproduction:

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Handlist

Collection level description available on-line on the Women's Library website

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Library by a descendent of Dr Richard Pankhurst in 2003.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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Related material:

At The Women's Library see Records of the Becker Family including papers of Lydia Becker (ref. 7LEB) and the Autograph Letter Collection - Becker Collection (ref 9/28).

Also see Lydia Becker's correspondence as secretary of Manchester Society for Women's Suffrage (1867-90) in Manchester Archives and Local Studies reference M50/1.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: This document was generated by Javascript from an HTML form which structured the input according to the elements of ISAD(G) Version 2. Collection description May 2003 by Jennifer Haynes, Head of Special Collections, The Women's Library. Edited for AIM25 by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Dec 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Women | Sex | Sex distribution
Womens suffrage | Electoral systems | Internal politics

Personal names
Becker | Lydia Ernestine | 1827-1890 | suffragist leader
Bright | Jacob | 1821-1899 | politician
Bright | Ursula Mellor | 1835-1915 | campaigner for women's rights
Butler | Josephine Elizabeth | 1828-1906 | nee Grey | feminist and social reformer
Elmy | Elizabeth Clarke Wolstenholme | 1865-1920 | campaigner for women's rights
Grave | John | fl 1870s | Mayor of Manchester
Hacking | Esther
Moore | Rebecca | fl 1870s | educationalist
Pankhurst | Richard Marsden | 1836-1898 | suffragist
Steinthal | Samuel Alfred | 1826-1910 | clergyman

Corporate names
Manchester National Society for Women's Suffrage

Places