Mary E. Gawthorpe Papers
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Mary E. Gawthorpe (1881-1973) was a British suffragist who was an organizer for the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) from 1906 to 1912. Following her immigration to the United States in 1916, she was involved in a number of American social and political movements, including women's suffrage and labor education. Her papers, which consist of diaries, correspondence, notes, postcards, flyers, leaflets, news clippings, and photographs, cover the period of her involvement with the radical British suffragettes as well as some of her activities in the United States.
Biographical Note
Mary Eleanor Gawthorpe (1881-1973) was born in Leeds, England, on January 12, 1881, to John and Annie Eliza (Mountain) Gawthorpe. She had four siblings, but only one sister, Annie Gatenby, and a brother, James Arthur, survived to adulthood. Her father was a leather worker, and her mother worked occasionally as a textile worker and laundress to help support the family. Gawthorpe became a pupil-teacher at age thirteen in a local church school. Following her certification, she served as a schoolteacher in Leeds until 1906.
While she was studying and teaching, Gawthorpe became involved in socialist and labor politics in Leeds through her friend Tom Garrs. She was active in the Independent Labour Party (ILP) and the Women's Labour League, and she coordinated a women's page in the local Labour News. Through this work she began to speak in public, and the first two speeches she prepared were entitled "The Child under Socialism" and "The Modern Pariah, a plea against the making of criminals." She was also a leading figure of the Leeds branch of the National Union of Teachers, served on the Lord Mayor of Leeds Committee for the Feeding of School Children, and was active in A.R. Orage's Leeds Arts Club.
Christabel Pankhurst had been speaking to ILP audiences throughout England, and Gawthorpe became increasingly interested in the issue of women's suffrage, particularly after the arrest of Christable Pankhurst and Annie Kenney at Free Trade Hall in Manchester. Though the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) was active at that time only in Manchester and other Lancashire towns, Gawthorpe began to organize suffrage-related events in her native Leeds and throughout Yorkshire by writing letters to the editor and speaking at local labor events. She helped Isabella Ford form the Leeds Suffrage Society, which was affiliated with the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies. In 1906, she resigned her teaching post at the Bramley Council School to devote more time to these causes, and later that year, she accepted an offer to become a full-time organizer for the WSPU. As she became more involved with the militant suffragettes, she grew less active in the ILP.
One of her first assignments was to join Christabel Pankhurst in Wales, where she drew upon her own working-class background and involvement in the labor movement to organize mining communities for the Mid-Glamorgan campaign against the Liberal politician Samuel Evans. Gawthorpe became one of the WSPU's primary speakers, and was especially active in the North of England. She was first arrested for disrupting a House of Commons meeting on October 23, 1906. She was known as a particularly dynamic and persuasive orator, and was one of the speakers at a Hyde Park demonstration that drew over 200,000 people. By 1909, she was head organizer for the Lancashire branch of the WSPU, headquartered in Manchester. Several imprisonments, which included hunger strikes and forced feedings, eroded her already fragile health, and she had to drop out of the movement for repeated periods of convalescence. In 1910, she was unable to be in Manchester to fulfill her duties for the Autumn Campaign, but conducted a "bed-side" effort to raise money to support the campaign. She joined with Dora Marsden in 1911 in a venture to start a new journal, The Freewoman, which sometimes found itself at odds with WSPU leaders, including the Pankhursts. In 1912, the issue of forced feeding of suffragette prisoners became increasingly important to her, and she led a petition drive in protest of the practice (which generated a lengthy response from George Bernard Shaw). She also made an unsuccessful call in this year for a national women's hunger strike.
Following 1912, Gawthorpe's health was too poor to continue her participation in the movement. She spent time in different locales to recover, including a trip to Italy in 1914-15. She intermittently received financial support from individual suffragettes until 1916. Around this time, she began to consider other fields of work she could pursue. She took a secretarial training course at Kensington College in 1915.
Gawthorpe traveled to the United States with her mother in 1916, where they joined family members in Monroe, New York. While it appears that Gawthorpe initially advertised herself for employment as an editor's or author's assistant, she soon began to work as an organizer for a number of political causes and moved from campaign to campaign for the next several years. She quickly joined the American struggle for women's suffrage, working first as a Field Organizer and then Head Organizer for the Brooklyn branch of the New York State Woman Suffrage Party. Mary Ogden White wrote of her contribution to this movement, "Miss Gawthorpe is a morsel of a woman to have achieved so much, but one look into her hazel eyes--her very unusual hazel eyes--is convincing of the power within her. She is all fire and quick response, a flash of energy, of sympathy, of comprehension." In February 1917, she went to Buffalo to work as chairperson of the Western New York Suffrage News Service. In this capacity, she led one contingent of a caravan to the Suffragists' State Convention, led by Gertrude Franchot Tone in August 1917. Later that year, she was appointed State Press Chairman for the Party, a capacity in which she served until mid-1918.
Following her work with the Woman Suffrage Party, Gawthorpe worked on a number of short-term organizing projects around the country. In 1918, she worked for the National Consumers League's Industrial Investigation. Gawthorpe assisted in the completion of the League's study of "Woman's Work in Wartime" in Wilmington, Delaware. Gawthorpe carried out research by visiting homes to gather family history and budget data and then remained to serve as Legislative Secretary of the Delaware Consumers' League, working on their campaign for a Minimum Wage Law.
In 1919, she traveled to Chicago, where she worked with the Cook County Labor Party, especially with the Women's Section. She continued the public speaking for which she had been well known in the British suffrage movement, and was a Labor Day speaker at a demonstration of miners in Belleville, Illinois. It may have been in Chicago that she became associated with Sidney Hillman's Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, as her next move was to Rochester, where she briefly served as the union's Director of Educational Programs. She was a delegate to the national convention of the National Labor Party (later the Farmer-Labor Party) in Chicago in 1920, and was "loaned" by ACWA to work on the presidential campaign of Parley Parker Christensen. To aid the campaign, she spoke in the mining districts of Indiana and Illinois. From 1921-1922, she was an executive secretary for the League for Mutual Aid.
In 1921, she married John Sanders, an engineer who had been a boarder in the home of her brother, James Arthur, in Newark, New Jersey, where the family had relocated. The couple moved to Whitestone, New York, where they resided for the rest of their lives. Following her marriage, Gawthorpe held no "official job"--as she described--but maintained close associations with a number of progressive and labor organizations around New York City, particularly the New School for Social Research.
In 1931, Gawthorpe once again became involved with her acquaintances from the British suffrage movement when she began to promote Sylvia Pankhurst's book, The Suffragette Movement, which was experiencing poor sales in the United States. This endeavor led to a disagreement with Pankhurst over a description of Gawthorpe in a brief footnote in the book, which overlooked Gawthorpe's involvement in the women's suffrage movement in the United States following her emigration. To set the record straight, and to provide detailed information about her activities in the United States for a compilation of biographies of militant suffragettes for the Suffragette Fellowship in Britain, she solicited letters of reference from a number of political figures with whom she had worked, including Gertrude Franchot Tone, Roger Baldwin, Arthur Garfield Hays, and Vera B. Whitehouse. Gawthorpe eventually demanded that Pankhurst produce a second edition of the book in order to correct the mistake, an action Pankhurst was not prepared to take. Following a contentious correspondence from 1931 to 1935, they appear to have fallen out of touch.
In 1962, Gawthorpe wrote a memoir of her early years and her participation in the British suffrage movement, Up Hill to Holloway, printed by Traversity Press of Penobscot, Maine. John Sanders passed away the following year. In addition to her political activities, Gawthorpe maintained interests in astrology, gardening, painting, and drawing. She was moved to the Clearview Nursing Home in Whitestone, New York, in January 1973, and passed away there on March 12, 1973. She was survived by her nephew and heir, Sidney John Ward, whose daughters preserved her papers and donated them to the Tamiment Library.
Sources:
Diane Atkinson, The Suffragettes in Pictures (London: Sutton Publishing Limited, 1996).Mary Gawthorpe, Up Hill to Holloway (Penobscot, Maine: Traversity Press, 1962).Sandra Holton, Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women's Suffrage Movement (London: Routledge, 1996).Pankhurst, Sylvia, The Suffragette Movement; An Intimate Account of Persons and Ideals (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1931).
Arrangement
The collection is arranged into six series:
I: Diaries/Engagement Books, 1918-1972
II: Correspondence, 1903-1973
III: Subject Files, 1881-1990
IV: Educational Materials and Notes, circa 1890-1932
V: Postcards, 1903-1970
VI: Photographs, Graphic Materials, and Artifacts, 1900-circa 1950s
Series I is arranged chronologically. Series II is arranged alphabetically by correspondent. Series III, IV, and VI are arranged alphabetically by folder title. Series V is arranged chronologically within two sections, Suffrage and General.
Scope and Content Note
The collection is predominantly comprised of materials related to Gawthorpe's work as a suffragist, including her involvement with the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and other pro-suffrage groups during the early 20th century. Genres of materials that document Gawthorpe's activism include correspondence and postcards; diaries and engagement books; notes; and news clippings, flyers, programs, leaflets, pamphlets, and other forms of printed ephemera. These materials also reflect the wider activities of many of the era's pro- and anti-suffrage groups and the work of other suffragettes like the Pankhursts. To a lesser extent, the collection provides insight into Gawthorpe's interest in the labor movement, her teaching career, and her personal life.
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Conditions Governing Access
Materials are open without restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Any rights (including copyright and related rights to publicity and privacy) held by Mary E. Gawthorpe were transferred to New York University in 2001 by Anne Ward Crocker, Elizabeth Ward Miessner, and Joyce Cover Ward. Permission to publish or reproduce materials in this collection must be secured from the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archive. Please contact tamiment.wagner@nyu.edu.
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; Mary E. Gawthorpe Papers; TAM 275; box number; folder number; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.
Location of Materials
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Anne Ward Crocker, Elizabeth Ward Miessner, and Joyce Cover Ward in 2001. The accession numbers related to this gift are 2001.028 and 2001.183.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
This collection, with the exception of some parts of Boxes 4 and 5 and some of the photographs, is available on microfilm (Film R-7264) for use in this repository only. The publishers of the microfilm edition excluded a small number of documents from these boxes, mainly concerning family history, because of privacy considerations. Researchers must use microfilm for this collection except for Boxes 4 and 5 and the photographs, at the discretion of the reference archivist. There is also a guide to the microfilm available at the Tamiment Library (call number REF HQ1413.G39 A3 2006).
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Some items, specifically the "Self Denial" sash in boxes 10-11 are extremely fragile; researchers must consult the photograph of the object.
Separated Material
A copy of Gawthorpe's autobiography, Up Hill to Holloway, and its accompanying index/supplement were separated for library cataloging, as were approximately ten other books related to women's suffrage and other topics. A number of suffrage-themed journals which were originally processed as part of the collection were separated in 2013 and also designated for library cataloging.
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Processing Information
Photographic materials originally housed in albums were taken from the albums and rehoused in photograph or negative sleeves and stored in a photograph box when the collection was initially processed in the early 2000s.
Photographs and graphic materials separated from this collection during processing were established as a separate collection, the Mary E. Gawthorpe Photographs (PHOTOS 227). In 2013, the photograph collection was reincorporated into the Mary E. Gawthorpe Papers (TAM 275).
Artifacts in the collection were rehoused by NYU's preservation department in 2013.
In 2019, items were placed in new acid-free folders and boxes in preparation for offsite storage.
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Repository
Series I: Diaries, 1918-1972, inclusive
Scope and Content Note
Gawthorpe recorded her activities in engagement books from shortly after her arrival in the United States until her death. These materials do not provide a comprehensive account of Gawthorpe's activities from this period, however, because the detail of her accounts varied greatly from year to year.
Diaries/Engagement Books, 1918-1920, inclusive
Diaries/Engagement Books, 1920-1925, inclusive
Diaries/Engagement Books, 1926-1929, inclusive
Diaries/Engagement Books, 1930-1935, inclusive
Diaries/Engagement Books, 1936-1938, inclusive
Diaries/Engagement Books, 1939-1940, inclusive
Diaries/Engagement Books, 1941-1942, inclusive
Diaries/Engagement Books, 1943-1945, inclusive
Diaries/Engagement Books, 1946-1947, inclusive
Diaries/Engagement Books, 1948-1949, inclusive
Diaries/Engagement Books, 1950-1951, inclusive
Diaries/Engagement Books, 1952-1953, inclusive
Diaries/Engagement Books, 1954-1955, inclusive
Diaries/Engagement Books, 1956-1957, inclusive
Diaries/Engagement Books, 1958-1959, inclusive
Diaries/Engagement Books, 1960-1961, inclusive
Diaries/Engagement Books, 1962, inclusive
Diaries/Engagement Books, 1963, inclusive
Diaries/Engagement Books, 1964, inclusive
Diaries/Engagement Books, 1965, inclusive
Diaries/Engagement Books, 1966-1967, inclusive
Diaries/Engagement Books, 1968-1969, inclusive
Diaries/Engagement Books, 1970-1971, inclusive
Diaries/Engagement Books, 1972, inclusive
Series II: Correspondence, 1930-1973, inclusive
Scope and Content Note
This series contains Gawthorpe's incoming and outgoing correspondence. Much of the correspondence from 1931 to 1933 concerns the publication of Sylvia Pankhurst's book The Suffragette Movement and a dispute between the two women over Pankhurst's treatment of Gawthorpe's American career in a footnote. Pankhurst's refusal to revise the book seems to have led to the end of their correspondence. Material pertaining to this matter can be found throughout this series. Among the correspondents on this topic are: John Beffel, Harriet Stanton Blatch, Alice Stone Blackwell, Parley Parker Christensen, Mary E. Dreier, John Galsworthy, Victor Gollancz, Arthur Garfield Hays, A.R. Orage, Sylvia Pankhurst, Alice Paul, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, George Bernard Shaw, and Gertrude Franchot Tone. (See also Pankhurst files in Series III.)
Another key issue addressed in this series is the split between Gawthorpe and Dora Marsden, who briefly co-edited The Freewoman in 1911. This issue is addressed in the correspondence with Albert and Adele Lowy and Grace Jardine.
Other correspondents of note in this series are Scott Nearing, Roger Baldwin, Gertrude Franchot Tone, and Havelock Ellis. This series also includes five folders of cards from Gawthorpe's husband, John Sanders.
Unidentified, undated , 1903-1933 , 1968-1972, inclusive
A, undated , 1911-1923, inclusive
Amberg, Ruth, undated , 1922, inclusive
Armstrong, E. Noel, undated , 1926-1935, inclusive
Astrological Research Foundation, 1930-1931 , 1931, inclusive
B, undated , 1915-1933 , 1969, inclusive
Baldwin, Roger, undated , 1920-1933, inclusive
Barker, E. Frye, 1925-1927 , 1927, inclusive
Barney, Nora Stanton, 1926, inclusive
Becker, Maurice, undated , 1920-1933, inclusive
Beckwith, Ella G., undated , 1920, inclusive
Beekman, Henry R., 1928, inclusive
Beffel, John, 1933, inclusive
Berrien, Laura M., 1931, inclusive
Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1931, inclusive
Blatch, Harriet Stanton, undated , 1931, inclusive
Bosworth, Grace M., 1931, inclusive
Bradley, Ivah, 1932, inclusive
Broun, Heyword, 1933, inclusive
Byrns, Elinor, 1921-1922 , 1922, inclusive
C, undated , 1919-1933, inclusive
Carpenter, Edward, 1915, inclusive
Carson, Frank, undated , 1926-1933, inclusive
Carus, Helena Proudfoot, 1919-1949 , 1949, inclusive
Cathcart, Vera Countess of, 1926, inclusive
Christensen, Parley Parker, 1924 , 1931, inclusive
Civic Club, 1926-1927, inclusive
Condon, Mollie, 1925-1933, inclusive
Consolidated Edison, 1939, inclusive
Corio, Sylvio, 1931-1936, inclusive
Crossley, Stella, 1925-1926, inclusive
D, undated , 1914-1916, inclusive
Dockray, Leslie, 1970-1972, inclusive
Dreier, Mary E., undated , 1926-1931, inclusive
E, undated , 1925-1931, inclusive
Ellis, Havelock, 1912, inclusive
F, undated , 1915-1933, inclusive
Floyd, Louise Adams, undated , 1926-1951, inclusive
Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley, 1930, inclusive
Forbes-Robertson, Sir Johnston, 1910, inclusive
Forward, 1932, inclusive
Frank, Walter and Eva, 1931-1933, inclusive
Fraser, Helen, 1923-1931, inclusive
Freeman, Elisabeth, undated , 1923-1933, inclusive
G, undated , 1917-1934, inclusive
Galsworthy, John, 1931, inclusive
Garland, Marie Tudor, undated , 1922-1939, inclusive
Garland, Marie Tudor, 1940-1950, inclusive
Garland, Mary Wrenn, 1924-1927, inclusive
Gawthorpe, Annie Eliza, 1910-1919, inclusive
Gawthorpe, James Arthur, 1913, inclusive
Gollancz, Victor, 1931, inclusive
Grant, Myron L., undated , 1933, inclusive
Granville-Smith, Jessica, undated , 1929-1931 , 1968-1969, inclusive
Greenbie, Marjorie, 1968-1970, inclusive
Gumberg, Alex, 1931, inclusive
Gunner, Jocelyn, 1927-1949, inclusive
Guthrie, Lillian, 1960-1973, inclusive
Gye, Elsa, 1932, inclusive
H, undated , 1908-1933 , 1970, inclusive
Haapenen, John, 1932, inclusive
Harmati, Sandor, 1932, inclusive
Hays, Aline D., 1931-1933, inclusive
Hays, Arthur Garfield, 1931-1933, inclusive
Hillman, Sidney, 1920, inclusive
Hollister, Carroll, undated , 1929-1922 , 1969, inclusive
Horst, Gertrude, 1933, inclusive
Hulburd, Anna K., 1924-1927, inclusive
Hulst, Cornelia, 1919-1926, inclusive
I, ca.1932, inclusive
Iliff, J.G., 1916, inclusive
Irwin, Inez Haynes, 1931-1933, inclusive
J, undated , 1920-1933, inclusive
Jardine, Grace, 1931-1932, inclusive
K, undated , 1970, inclusive
Kallen, H.M., 1931, inclusive
Kelly, Herbert, undated, inclusive
Kemp, Eleanor C., 1931, inclusive
Kennan, Ellen A., 1926-1933, inclusive
L, undated , 1931-1932, inclusive
Laski, Harold J., 1931, inclusive
LeGallienne, Eva, 1927, inclusive
Leslie, Kenneth, undated , 1969, inclusive
Levinson, Polly, 1931-1933, inclusive
Lidderdale, Jane, 1966-1967, inclusive
Lowy, Albert and Adele, 1931 , 1971-1972, inclusive
Lowy, Mary, 1921, inclusive
M, 1910-1933, inclusive
MacDonald, Ishbel, 1927, inclusive
Manship, Ruth, undated , 1929-1932, inclusive
Marble, Mary Flowers, undated , 1927, inclusive
Morris, Mary, 1929-1930, inclusive
Murray, Stella Wolfe, 1931, inclusive
Musgrave, Helen, undated , 1928-1930, inclusive
N, undated , 1908 , 1927-1933, inclusive
Nafe, Gertrude, 1931-1933, inclusive
Nearing, Scott, undated , 1917-1933, inclusive
NeviNson, Henry Woodd, 1909, inclusive
Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1933, inclusive
Norman, C.H., undated , 1910, inclusive
North Node Book Shop, 1929-1931, inclusive
O, undated , 1919-1926, inclusive
Orage, A.R., 1931, inclusive
Osgood, Alivilda F., 1927-1933, inclusive
Osman, J.M., undated , 1926-1933, inclusive
P, 1908-1931 , 1967, inclusive
Pankhurst, Christabel, 1933, inclusive
Pankhurst, Emmeline, 1908, inclusive
Pankhurst, Sylvia, 1929-1931, inclusive
Pankhurst, Sylvia, 1932-1935, inclusive
Paul, Alice, 1929-1931, inclusive
Penny, Frank, undated , 1915-1929, inclusive
Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline, 1931-1935, inclusive
Pomeroy, Ella, undated , 1929-1932, inclusive
Post, Hermann, undated , 1932-1933, inclusive
R, undated , 1917-1933 , 1970, inclusive
Reid, Helen Rogers, 1925-1931, inclusive
Reiner, Edith, 1929, inclusive
Rigby, Edith, undated , 1932-1951, inclusive
Robins, Elizabeth, 1931, inclusive
Rowe, Frances, 1917, inclusive
Russell, Ada, 1936-1944, inclusive
Russell, Bertrand, 1932 , 1970, inclusive
Russell, Ethel, 1942-1945, inclusive
Russell, Hilda, 1920-1939, inclusive
Russell, Jessie, 1947-1951, inclusive
Russell, Marie Valentine, 1916-1927, inclusive
S, undated , 1916-1933, inclusive
Sadow, Sue, 1932-1933, inclusive
Sanders, John, undated, inclusive
Sanders, John, 1921-1929, inclusive
Sanders, John, 1930-1939, inclusive
Sanders, John, 1940-1949, inclusive
Sanders, John, 1950-1959, inclusive
Sanders, John, 1960-1963, inclusive
Schulkind, Adelaide, 1929-1932, inclusive
Scott, Charles Prestwich, 1910 , 1931, inclusive
Scudder, Vida D., 1932, inclusive
Sharp, Doris, 1931, inclusive
Shaw, George Bernard, 1912 , 1933, inclusive
Shelby, Gertrude Mathews, 1921-1926, inclusive
Singleton, Caroline, 1926-1928, inclusive
Smith, B.A., 1915-1928, inclusive
Smith, Jessica, 1968-1969, inclusive
Stevens, Doris, 1928-1931, inclusive
Storm, Diana, 1928-1931, inclusive
Strang, Lewis C., 1927, inclusive
Sullivan, William L., 1921, inclusive
Swanwick, Helena, 1908 , 1932, inclusive
Swayne, Blanche, 1932-1933, inclusive
T, undated , 1919-1933, inclusive
Tolson, Chas. G., 1909, inclusive
Tone, Franchot, undated , 1930 , 1968, inclusive
Tone, Gertrude Franchot, undated , 1919-1923, inclusive
Tone, Gertrude Franchot, 1924-1938, inclusive
Unity Society, 1929, inclusive
Upward, Allen, 1913, inclusive
Valiant, Grace, 1928-1930, inclusive
Verrall, Richard P. and Gertrude, 1919-1921, inclusive
W, 1915-1931 , 1966 , 1970-1972, inclusive
Ward, Annie Gawthorpe, undated , 1913-1921 , 1948, inclusive
Ward, Sidney John, 1910 , 1929, inclusive
Ward, Stella Crossley, undated , 1930-1933, inclusive
Watson, Elizabeth, undated , 1926-1933, inclusive
WEVD, undated , 1931, inclusive
White, Eliot, 1931-1933, inclusive
Wiener, Paul Lester, 1929, inclusive
Woman Suffrage Party, Brooklyn, 1916, inclusive
Z, 1933, inclusive
Series III: Subject Files, 1881-1990, inclusive
Scope and Content Note
The subject files cover the period from 1881 to Gawthorpe's death in 1973 (with most files dating from 1907 to 1913), as well as materials relating to Gawthorpe's estate up until 1990. The earlier material relates to the WSPU, including Gawthorpe's work in the North of England, as well as a range of other pro- and anti-suffrage organizations. This series extensively covers two of Gawthorpe's initiatives in 1912: her coordination of a petition against the forcible feeding of suffragette prisoners and her call for a national women's hunger strike. The petition drive generated responses from a range of figures, including Havelock Ellis and George Bernard Shaw, which are included in the subject file.
Actress Suffrage Organizations, 1909-1910, inclusive
Adult Suffrage Society, 1907, inclusive
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, 1920, inclusive
Artists' Suffrage League, undated, inclusive
Bangs, Jean M., 1931-1933, inclusive
Biographical Materials: John Sanders, Jr., 1922-1933, inclusive
Biographical Materials: Mary Gawthorpe, 1881-1937, inclusive
Biographical Materials: Mary Gawthorpe, 1962-1990, inclusive
Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1916 , 1947-1950, inclusive
Catt, Carrie Chapman: Speeches, 1911 , 1916, inclusive
Central Society for Women's Suffrage, undated, inclusive
Clippings: General, undated , 1912-1968, inclusive
Conciliation Committee for Women's Suffrage, 1910, inclusive
Davison, Emily Wilding, 1913, inclusive
Education Issues: Pamphlets, 1910-1913, inclusive
Ephemera: Programs, Invitations, Notes, undated , 1906-1938, inclusive
Fabian News, 1911-1912, inclusive
Fabian Society: Pamphlets, 1907-1912, inclusive
Family: General, undated , 1937 , 1941, inclusive
Forcible Feeding: Clippings, 1912, inclusive
Forcible Feeding: Shaw Clippings, 1912, inclusive
Forcible Feeding Petition: Correspondence, 1912, inclusive
Forcible Feeding Petition: Organizing Materials, 1912, inclusive
Freewoman, undated, inclusive
Friends of India, 1932, inclusive
Garland, Charles: Clippings, undated , 1922-1929, inclusive
Garland Fund (American Fund for Public Service): Reports and Clippings, 1923-1934, inclusive
Garland, Marie Tudor: Clippings, undated , 1916-1931, inclusive
Hardie, Keir: Suffrage Pamphlets, undated , 1905, inclusive
Hunger Strike: Clippings, 1912-1913, inclusive
Hunger Strike: Correspondence, 1912, inclusive
Hunger Strike: Editorials, 1912-1913, inclusive
Hunger Strike: Letters to the Editor, 1912-1913, inclusive
Illness: Baylis House, undated , 1913, inclusive
Illness: Mary Gawthorpe Testimonial Fund, 1911, inclusive
Illness: Support from suffragists, 1915-1916, inclusive
Independent Labour Party: Pamphlets, undated , 1900-1906, inclusive
Independent Labour Party: Suffrage Materials, 1906, inclusive
International Women's Franchise Club, undated , 1910, inclusive
Labour Organizations: Leaflets, undated , 1910, inclusive
Lancashire and Cheshire Women's Textile and Other Workers' Representation Committee, undated, inclusive
Leeds: General, 1906-1908, inclusive
Leeds Women's Suffrage Society, 1906, inclusive
Liberal Organizations, undated , 1907-1909, inclusive
Liberal Women's Suffrage League, undated, inclusive
Manchester: General, undated , 1908-1910, inclusive
Men's League for Opposing Women's Suffrage, ca.1909, inclusive
Men's League for Women's Suffrage, 1907-1909, inclusive
Men's suffrage organizations, undated , 1909-1911, inclusive
Merseles, Theodore F., 1929, inclusive
National Committee to Promote the Break Up of the Poor Law, 1910, inclusive
National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship, 1923, inclusive
National Union of Women Workers, 1908, inclusive
National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, undated , 1909, inclusive
Nearing, Scott, 1916 , 1931, inclusive
New Freewoman, 1913, inclusive
New School for Social Research, 1930-1932, inclusive
New York, Journey to: MG, 1915-1916, inclusive
New York State Woman Suffrage Party, 1916, inclusive
North of England Society for Women's Suffrage, 1908-1909, inclusive
Old Time Players, 1929, inclusive
Pankhurst and Pethick-Lawrence Trial: Clippings, 1912, inclusive
Pankhurst, Sylvia, undated , 1931-1932, inclusive
Pankhurst, Sylvia: The Suffragette Movement, undated , 1931 , 1936, inclusive
Pankhurst, Sylvia: The Suffragette MovementCorrespondence, 1931-1932, inclusive
Pankhurst, Sylvia: Woodford Nursery School Committee, 1930, inclusive
Pankhursts: Clippings, undated , 1925-1932, inclusive
Parliamentary Debates, House of Commons, 1910, inclusive
Russells: Clippings, undated , 1914, inclusive
Sanders, John, Jr.: Condolence Cards, 1963, inclusive
Sanders, John, Jr.: Condolence Letters, 1963, inclusive
Sanders, John, Jr.: General, 1921-1922 , 1934, inclusive
Scott, Charles Prestwich, 1929-1932, inclusive
Shaw, George Bernard, 1909 , 1931, inclusive
Sims, George R.: "The Cry of the Children" (Tribune Extras Pamphlet), undated, inclusive
Speaking Engagements: MG, 1907-1910 , 1919, inclusive
Suffragette Fellowship, 1932 , 1968-1972, inclusive
Suffragette Split: Clippings, 1912, inclusive
Suffragists' Vigilance League, 1909, inclusive
Sweated Industries Exhibition, 1906, inclusive
Union Francaise Pour le Suffrage des Femmes, 1909, inclusive
Upward, Allen, 1910 , 1926, inclusive
Votes for Women, 1909, inclusive
War Resisters' International, 1926, inclusive
Webb, Sidney and Beatrice: Course of Lectures, 1910-1911, inclusive
Women Writers' Suffrage League, undated, inclusive
Women's Freedom League, 1907-1909, inclusive
Women's International Matteotti Committee, 1932-1933, inclusive
Women's Labor League, 1905-1906, inclusive
Women's National Anti-Suffrage League, 1908, inclusive
Women's Social and Political Union, Aberdeen, 1908, inclusive
Women's Social and Political Union, Birmingham, undated , 1910, inclusive
Women's Social and Political Union, Bradford, undated , 1908, inclusive
Women's Social and Political Union, Dundee, 1908, inclusive
Women's Social and Political Union, Glasgow, 1910, inclusive
Women's Social and Political Union, Kensington, 1907-1911, inclusive
Women's Social and Political Union, Lambeth, undated, inclusive
Women's Social and Political Union, Leeds, undated , 1907-1908, inclusive
Women's Social and Political Union, Liverpool, 1909, inclusive
Women's Social and Political Union, Manchester, undated , 1908-1910, inclusive
Women's Social and Political Union, National, undated, inclusive
Women's Social and Political Union, National, 1906-1907, inclusive
Women's Social and Political Union, National, 1907-1908, inclusive
Women's Social and Political Union, National: Leaflets, 1909, inclusive
Women's Social and Political Union, National: Women's Exhibition, 1909, inclusive
Women's Social and Political Union, National, 1910-1911, inclusive
Women's Social and Political Union, Preston, 1908-1909, inclusive
Women's Social and Political Union, Rawtenstall, 1908, inclusive
Women's Social and Political Union, Scottish, 1908, inclusive
Women's Social and Political Union, Southport, 1908-1910, inclusive
Women's Social and Political Union, Wimbledon, 1908-1911, inclusive
Women's Suffrage: Clippings, undated , 1908-1975, inclusive
Women's Suffrage: Leaflets, undated , 1906-1911, inclusive
Women's Suffrage: Pamphlets, undated , 1906-1914, inclusive
Women's Suffrage: United States, 1916, inclusive
Women's Suffrage Crisis: Clippings, 1913, inclusive
Women's Suffrage Society: Blackpool and Fylde, 1909, inclusive
Writings: MG, 1908 , 1912, inclusive
Series IV: Educational Materials and Notes, circa 1890-1932, inclusive
Scope and Content Note
This series covers Gawthorpe's training and career as a teacher from 1898 to 1904, her notes and travels during 1914 through 1916 following the end of her involvement in the WSPU, and her study materials from 1916 when she arrived in the United States.
Course Materials: London and Northern Tutorial College, circa 1890, inclusive
Italy: Notes and Materials, 1914-1915, inclusive
Notes: Miscellaneous, undated, inclusive
Regulations for the Training of Teachers, 1913, inclusive
Secretarial Training: Kensington College, 1915, inclusive
Sketchbooks, undated, 1932, inclusive
Study Notes: History of the United States, 1916, inclusive
Teaching Materials, 1899, inclusive
Teaching Materials: Cockburn School, circa 1899, inclusive
Teaching Materials: Elementary Syllabus, 1903-1904, inclusive
Teaching Materials: Leeds School Board, 1898, inclusive
University of Kansas, 1916, inclusive
Series V: Postcards, 1903-1970, inclusive
Scope and Content Note
This series contains postcards received and/or collected by Gawthorpe. The series is divided into two sections, Suffrage and General. Of note in this series is the only material in the collection that reflects Gawthorpe's relationship with Tom Garrs.
Arrangement
Postcards from Garrs to Gawthorpe's mother are filed chronologically in the General section.
Postcard Binder 1: Suffrage and General, 1903-1917, undated, inclusive
Postcard Binder 2: General, 1907-1911, inclusive
Postcard Binder 3: General, 1912-1931, inclusive
Postcard Binder 4: General, 1931-1970, inclusive
Series VI: Photographs, Graphic Materials, and Artifacts, 1900-circa 1950s, inclusive
Scope and Content Note
This series contains photographs, negatives, graphic materials, and artifacts, many of which are personal in nature. The photographs are mostly images of Gawthorpe, her family and friends, and a variety of buildings, landmarks, and landscapes, taken during various vacations and trips. Most photographs originate from albums presumably created by Gawthorpe and have descriptive information written on the back (the negatives from these albums are also included). To a lesser extent, the photographic materials depict British suffragette leaders and lesser-known suffragists wearing clothing with pro-suffrage slogans or otherwise engaged in activities in support of the movement.
Graphic materials consist of oversize programs, flyers, and leaflets related to the suffrage movement. An article on the forcible feeding of suffrage prisoners is also included. Other graphic materials include reproductive prints of religious scenes and various other subjects.
Most of the artifacts are personal effects, including tarot cards, a calling card case, a cigarette holder, an engraved fountain pen, human hair (likely Gawthorpe's), and other items. However, there is also an apron with a pro-suffrage slogan and other artifacts from the women's suffrage movement.