Papers of Kitty Marion c.1870-1933

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Papers of Kitty Marion c.1870-1933

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0.5 A box (1 folder)

eng,

The Women' s Library

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Park Alice L b 1861

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Women's Social & Political Union

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Actresses' Franchise League

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At the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century, the economic position of actresses was precarious due both to the nature of their work and the inequality of rates of pay between themselves and their male colleagues. Influenced by the argument that working women needed the vote to improve their economic and working conditions, the Actresses' Franchise League was founded in 1908 by Gertrude Elliot, Winifred Mayo, Sime Seruya and Adeline Bourne. The first meeti...

Marion, Kitty, 1871-1944

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Kitty Marion (1871-1944), born Katharina Schafer in Germany, was an actress and activist in the British suffragette and American birth control movements. She died a naturalized U.S. citizen in New York City. From the description of Kitty Marion papers, 1908-1939, n.d. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 79427327 Suffragist. From the description of Memorial of Kitty Marion, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454124 Kitty Mar...