Free Church League for Women's Suffrage

The Free Church League for Women’s Suffrage was a British nonconformist Christian organisation associated with the women's suffrage movement in the United Kingdom.

History

The Free Church League for Women’s Suffrage was founded in 1910.[1] In 1913, the League supported the "National Week of Prayer" organised by religious suffrage leagues, including The Catholic Women's Suffrage Society and the Jewish League for Woman Suffrage.[2][3]

On 1 April 1913, the League began publication of The Free Church Suffrage Times (FCST).[4][5][6] The first editorial of the newspaper outlined the aims of the Free Church League for Women's Suffrage:[7]

"This league stands for the advocacy of the enfranchisement of women on the same basis that men are, or shall be enfranchised, believing the present system of government by one sex only to be un-Christian in principle, unjust in practice and indefensible from an economic or religious standpoint."

There were local branches of the League, such as in Penge, London, where a preacher emphasised "the spiritual side of the emancipation of women."[8]

Notable members

See also

References

  1. ^ "Suffrage Societies Database Guide - Women's Suffrage Resources". www.suffrageresources.org.uk. Retrieved 20 June 2025.
  2. ^ Neville, Graham (1998). Radical Churchman: Edward Lee Hicks and the New Liberalism. Clarendon Press. p. 165. ISBN 978-0-19-826977-9.
  3. ^ Summers, Anne (1 July 2012). "Gender, Religion and an Immigrant Minority: Jewish women and the suffrage movement in Britain c.1900–1920". Women's History Review. 21 (3): 399–418. doi:10.1080/09612025.2012.661156. ISSN 0961-2025.
  4. ^ Kaye, Elaine (1990). "A Turning-point in the Ministry of Women: the Ordination of the First Woman to the Christian Ministry in England in September 1917". Studies in Church History. 27: 505–512. doi:10.1017/S0424208400012274. ISSN 0424-2084.
  5. ^ Tusan, Michelle Elizabeth (2005). Women Making News: Gender and Journalism in Modern Britain. University of Illinois Press. p. 247. ISBN 978-0-252-03015-4.
  6. ^ a b c Doughan, David; Gordon, Peter (3 June 2014). Dictionary of British Women's Organisations, 1825-1960. Routledge. p. 54. ISBN 978-1-136-89770-2.
  7. ^ Cartwright, Colin A. (2 October 2018). "'The Enfranchisement of Baptist Women'?* A Brief History of The Baptist Women's League and the Womens' Suffrage Movement in England and Scotland". Baptist Quarterly. 49 (4): 146–164. doi:10.1080/0005576X.2018.1520969. ISSN 0005-576X.
  8. ^ Tichelar, Michael (4 May 2023). Labour in the Suburbs: Political Change in Croydon During the Twentieth Century. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-000-87452-5.
  9. ^ Paul, Greg (7 October 2020). Queer Prophets: The Bible's Surprise Ending to the Story of Sexuality and Gender. Wipf and Stock Publishers. p. 79. ISBN 978-1-7252-6656-8.
  10. ^ Crawford, Elizabeth (15 April 2013). The Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain and Ireland: A Regional Survey. Routledge. p. 195. ISBN 978-1-136-01062-0.
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