Amy Sanderson
Vorlage:User sandboxAmy Sanderson neé Reid (born 1875-6), was a Scottish suffragette, executive member of the Women's Freedom League, imprisoned twice, and a main speaker at the 1912 'Women's March' from Edinburgh to London.[1]
Biography
Amy Reid was born in 1875-6 in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire to James Reid, a spirits cellarman and Janet Reid neé Kerr. She married James Sanderson, a wireworker journeyman on 10 August 1901 at Trinity Congregational Church, Glasgow.[2]
Sanderson joined the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1906 and was arrested at the 'Women's Parliament' protest at the House of Commons in 1907. She started speaking at events in Scotland on behalf of WPSU. In October 1907, she joined the break-away group, the Women's Freedom League (WLF) and served on its executive committee for three years[3], and spoke at events across the country. Sanderson was arrested a second time and imprisoned for a month in Holloway Prison in London, as part of a militant group who accosted Prime Minister H.H. Asquith at his home in Cavendish Square.[1] Sanderson was given a Holloway brooch designed by Sylvia Pankhurst for being imprisoned for the cause of women's rights to vote.[4]
In 1909, Sanderson was convening votes for women meetings in Yorkshire and speaking at gatherings across the country,[4] including in Forfar, where she lived for a time.[5] Sanderson wrote articles in the WFL newspaper The Vote, for example in 1910,[6] strongly criticising the main Labour Party pre-election for
'a curious mixture of earnest championship, lukewarm support, indifference and hostility' and appealing to the working class origins of the party 'Surely the women who have fought so determinedly during the last four years, who have been reviled and abused, imprisoned and tortured for asking simple justice, have a claim on a party that champions sweated workers, 82 per cent of whom are women.'[7]
Sanderson was connected with speakers and groups in different places, for example when visiting with Anna Munro, she said that Stonehaven was a ' hotbed of Liberalism'.[8]
Sanderson was photographed in prison by the police[9] and a pre-1909 posed photograph of her wearing the brooch was used in publicity postcards for WSPU,[4] (Note: one of these cards was put up for sale in 2017 for £130+VAT,[4] and another in an auction by auctioneers Rogers Jones in 2019, valued at £100-£160).
Vorlage:Women's suffrage in Scotland
References
- ↑ a b Mrs Amy Sanderson / Database - Women's Suffrage Resources. In: www.suffrageresources.org.uk. Abgerufen am 3. Februar 2021.
- ↑ Statutory Register of Marriages. In: Scotland's People. 1901, abgerufen am 3. Februar 2021 (644/9 452).
- ↑ , Ewan, Elizabeth., Innes, Sue., Reynolds, Sian.: The biographical dictionary of Scottish women : from the earliest times to 2004. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 2006, ISBN 978-0-7486-2660-1, S. 269 (worldcat.org).
- ↑ a b c d Collecting Suffrage: Mrs Amy Sanderson, Scottish Speaker For The Women’s Freedom League. In: Woman and her Sphere. 18. September 2020, abgerufen am 3. Februar 2021 (englisch).
- ↑ Sarah F. Browne: Making the Vote Count: The Arbroath Women Citizens' Association, 1931-1945. Abertay Historical Society, 2007, ISBN 978-0-900019-45-6, S. 1823 (englisch, google.com).
- ↑ , Delap, Lucy., DiCenzo, Maria., Ryan, Leila.: Feminism and the periodical press, 1900-1918. Routledge, London 2006, ISBN 0-415-32025-9, S. 130, 258 (worldcat.org).
- ↑ Amy Sanderson: The Labour Party and Votes for Women, 26 March 1910, S. 258
- ↑ Leah Leneman: A guid cause : the women's suffrage movement in Scotland. Mercat Press, Edinburgh 1995, ISBN 1-873644-48-5, S. 60, 269 (worldcat.org).
- ↑ Police photos of Amy Sanderson. In: Google Arts & Culture. Abgerufen am 3. Februar 2021 (englisch).