Re: NWSPW?

On 22 Apr 2010 at 17:49, Jenny M Benson wrote:

In the 1911 Census, Clara Callender of Liverpool gives her occupation
as Suffragette and in the Industry or Service column she has written
"N.W.S.P.W."

Googling has failed to find me an expansion of these initials. Does
anyone here know what they stood for?<

I believe the initials might actually be N.W.S.P.U (the last initial could be a "U" with an
over-long final flourish).

If this is the case, then it probably stood for Northern Women's Social & Political
Union. Wikipedia tells us that the suffragette movement was known as the Women's
Social & Political Union.

Clara was probably some kind of organiser in Liverpool, in which case I am slightly
surprised that she didn't boycott the 1911 census, as many suffragettes did.

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    ... Clara Callender of Liverpool gives her occupation as Suffragette and in the Industry or Service column she has written "N.W.S.P.W." ... Googling has failed to find me an expansion of these initials. ...
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    ... Suffragette and in the Industry or Service column she has written ... The last two could be Political Union, as there was a group at that time ...
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