Gabrielle Jeffery
Gabrielle Jeffery | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1886 Devon, England |
| Died | 1940 (aged 53–54) |
| Organization(s) | Women's Social and Political Union, Catholic Women's Suffrage Society |
Gabrielle Violet Jeffery (1886–1940)[1] was a British suffragist and one of the founders of the Catholic Women's Suffrage Society (1911–1923), predecessor of the St Joan's International Alliance.
Biography
[edit]Jeffery was born in 1886 in Devon.[1] Her father was J. E. B. Jeffery who worked for the Indian Civil Service.[2][3]
She became active in the women's suffrage movement, and joined the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1909. She became a paid WSPU organiser in Newport, Wales.[4]
On 8 December 1910, coincidentally the date of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, Jeffery was waiting outside Holloway Prison to welcome the release of imprisoned suffragettes.[5] This was common practice for the WSPU at the time. Whilst waiting, Jeffery met Mary Kendall and they discussed the idea of creating a Roman Catholic women's suffrage organization to bring together Catholics, both male and female, to work towards women's suffrage.[6]
Jeffery and Kendall founded the Catholic Women's Suffrage Society (CWSS) in 1911. Jeffery served as honorary secretary and treasurer.[7] It was the only organized group of Roman Catholics in England established to actively and publicly participate in the campaign for women's enfranchisement,[8] and the founders hoped that the organisation would give Catholic women a respectable way of becoming active in the movement.[9] Over time the Society extended its interests and campaigned on other women's issues such as equal pay.[10]
Jeffery died in 1940.[1]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 Crawford, Elizabeth (2 September 2003). The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866-1928. Routledge. p. 303. ISBN 978-1-135-43401-4.
- ↑ The Suffrage Annual and Women's Who's who. Stanley Paul & Company. 1913. p. 16.
- ↑ Burnand, Sir Francis Cowley (1941). The Catholic Who's who & Yearbook. Burns & Oates. p. 557.
- ↑ Wallace, Ryland (15 May 2018). The Women's Suffrage Movement in Wales, 1866-1928. University of Wales Press. p. 1883. ISBN 978-1-78683-329-7. Archived from the original on 21 February 2025. Retrieved 5 February 2025.
- ↑ Schofield, Nicholas (23 February 2018). "Votes for Women! The Catholic Contribution". Diocese of Westminster. Archived from the original on 29 October 2020. Retrieved 29 January 2025.
- ↑ Parnell, Nancy Stewart (1961). A Venture of Faith: A History of St. Joan's Social and Political Alliance, Formerly the Catholic Women's Suffrage Society, 1911-1961. Oxford.
- ↑ Delap, Lucy; DiCenzo, Maria; Ryan, Leila (2006). Feminism and the Periodical Press, 1900-1918. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-0-415-32027-6.
- ↑ Daigler, Mary Jeremy (12 October 2012). Incompatible with God's Design: A History of the Women's Ordination Movement in the U.S. Roman Catholic Church. Scarecrow Press. p. 12. ISBN 978-0-8108-8480-9.
- ↑ Melman, Billie (1998). Borderlines: Genders and Identities in War and Peace, 1870-1930. Psychology Press. p. 271. ISBN 978-0-415-91114-6.
- ↑ Kennedy, Sally (1985). Faith and Feminism: Catholic Women's Struggles for Self-expression. Studies in the Christian Movement. p. 93. ISBN 978-0-85924-340-7.