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BiographyBorn in Tower Hamlets in 1871, Eliza Adelaide ("Addy") Knight was a frail child, born with deformed thumbs, who suffered two accidents in childhood which led to her enduring poor health.[3] Due to her childhood injuries, she used a stick or crutches.[4] ArrestIn 1906 suffragettes Knight, Annie Kenney, and Mrs. Jane Sparborough were arrested along with Teresa Billington when they tried to obtain an audience with H. H. Asquith, a prominent member of the Liberals.[5][6] Offered either six weeks in prison or giving up campaigning for one year, despite her poor health Knight chose prison, as did the other women.[7] Annie Kenney, in her book autobiography, describes Knight as 'extraordinarily clever'.[8] Later lifeIn 1905 Knight joined the Women's Social and Political Union and worked as secretary for the organisation's first East London branch in Canning Town, established by Annie Kenney and Minnie Baldock. She was co-opted onto the Central Committee of the WSPU, but resigned from the organisation in 1907 due to its lack of democracy, and having witnessed a false claim made by Christabel Pankhurst in order to promote enfranchisement for propertied women only.[9] Following this, Knight joined the Adult Suffrage Society and became the branch secretary for Canning Town.She also served as a Poor Law Guardian for West Ham.[10] She developed a friendship with Dora Montefiore with whom she travelled to France in 1908 to address meetings there.[11] In March 1909 Knight resigned as branch secretary, due to illness through pregnancy, and received letters of thanks. She moved from Plaistow to Abbey Wood later that year with her family. In 1920 she joined the Communist Party of Great Britain as a foundation member with Dora Montefiore [12]but declined an invitation to join a delegation to the Soviet Union due to poor health.[13] In Abbey Wood she joined the Women’s Cooperative Guild and, together with her husband, the Independent Labour Party and the Workers Educational Association.[14] FamilyAdelaide and her husband, Donald Adolphus Brown, had four children between 1895 and 1901, three of whom died in a smallpox outbreak in 1902. Adelaide gave birth to another son in 1904 and a daughter in 1909. Brown (1874-1949) was a mixed-race sailor, the son of a Jamaican father and English mother, who eventually worked as a foreman at the Woolwich Arsenal, where he received a medal for bravery for tackling a fire there.[15] Adelaide Knight died in 1950; her husband died a year earlier. Her daughter, Winifred Langton, wrote a memoir of her parents edited by Addy's granddaughter, Fay Jacobsen, entitled, "Courage".[16] References1. ^[https://eastendwomensmuseum.org/blog/adelaide-knight-leader-of-the-first-east-london-suffragettes Adelaide Knight, leader of the first east London suffragettes — East End Women's Museum] {{Suffrage}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Knight, Adelaide}}2. ^{{cite book|author=Diane Atkinson|title=Rise Up Women!: The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8Ng3DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT578|date=8 February 2018|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-1-4088-4406-9|pages=578–}} 3. ^{{cite book |last1=Langton|first1=Winifred|title=Courage: an account of the lives of Eliza Adelaide Knight and Donald Adolphus Brown |date=2007 |publisher=Geoff Gamble |isbn=9787774565065 }} 4. ^{{cite book |last1=Atkinson |first1=Diane |title=Rise Up Women!: The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 578–. ISBN 978-1-4088-4406-9 |date=8 February 2018 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-4088-4406-9 |pages= 578–}} 5. ^{{cite book|author=Rosemary Taylor|title=East London Suffragettes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MlwTDQAAQBAJ&pg=PP32|date=4 August 2014|publisher=History Press|isbn=978-0-7509-6216-2|pages=32–}} 6. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.history.com/topics/british-history/hh-asquith-1st-earl-of-oxford-and-asquith|title=Herbert Asquith - British History - HISTORY.com|website=HISTORY.com|access-date=2018-03-01}} 7. ^https://eastendwomensmuseum.org/blog/adelaide-knight-leader-of-the-first-east-london-suffragettes 8. ^{{cite book |last1=Kenney |first1=Annie |title=Memories of a Militant |date=1924 |publisher=Edward Arnold |pages=90 }} 9. ^Langton page 119 10. ^Atkinson 11. ^Langton|pp=122-23 12. ^{{cite book |last1=Crawford |first1=Elizabeth |title=The Women's Suffrage Movement- A Reference Guide, 1866-1928 |date=2000 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9780415239264 |page=326}} 13. ^Langton page 161 14. ^Langton page152 15. ^Gretchen Gerzina, Black Victorians (London: Rutgers University Press, 2003), p. 119. 16. ^https://www.grahamstevenson.me.uk/index.php/biographies/j-l/l/337-winifred-langton-accessed=21/12/2018 6 : 1871 births|1950 deaths|British people with disabilities|British suffragists|English people with disabilities|English suffragists |
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