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词条 Mary Blathwayt
释义

  1. Early life

  2. Campaigning for women's suffrage

  3. Death and legacy

  4. See also

  5. References

  6. External links

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| name = Mary Blathwayt
| image = Suffragette Mary Blathwayt 1909. Blathwayt, Col Linley.jpg
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| caption = Blathwayt in 1909
| birth_date = 1 February 1879
| birth_place = Worthing, Sussex, England
| death_date = 25 June 1961 (aged 82)
| death_place =
| death_cause =
| nationality = British
| other_names =
| known_for = Suffragette and social reformer
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| mother = Emily Marion Blathwayt
| father = Colonel Linley Blathwayt
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Mary Blathwayt (1 February 1879 – 25 June 1961)[1] was a British feminist, suffragette and social reformer. She lived at Eagle House in Somerset. This house became known as the "Suffragette's Rest" and contained a memorial to the protests of 60 suffragists and suffragettes.

Early life

Mary Blathwayt was born 1 February 1879 in Worthing, Sussex,[2] the daughter of Colonel Linley Blathwayt, an army officer who had served in India[3] and Emily Blathwayt[2] who were first cousins.[4]

Upon retiring from active service, Colonel Blathwayt and his family moved from India to Eagle House, Batheaston, on the outskirts of Bath.[1]

Her younger brother, William, trained as an electrical engineer and taught English in Germany for many years before returning to England at the beginning of the First World War. Mary, remained at home and attended Bath High School.[1]

Campaigning for women's suffrage

Blathwayt and her mother started attending meetings of the Bath Women's Suffrage Society.[1] In July 1906, Blathwayt gave three shillings to Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU).[3] She first met Annie Kenney at a WSPU meeting in Bath and agreed to help Kenney, Elsie Howey, Clara Codd and Mary Phillips to organise the women's suffrage campaign in her area. Blathwayt was given an allowance by her family to support her in her work for women's rights. Many major people from the suffragette movement were invited to stay at her house and to plant a tree to celebrate a prison sentence.[3]

However when Vera Wentworth and Elsie Howey assaulted the Prime Minister this proved too much for Mary Blathwayt's family. Her mother, Emily, resigned from the WSPU and her father, Linley, wrote letters of protest to Christabel Pankhurst, Howey and Wentworth. Pankhurst was told that Howey and Wentworth could not visit their house again. Wentworth sent them a long reply expressing regret at their reaction but noting that "if Mr. Asquith will not receive deputation they will pummel him again".[5]

Death and legacy

Following her retirement from the WSPU, Blathwayt lived a quiet life with her family at Eagle House until her death on 25 June 1961.[1] The sixty trees that were planted at Eagle House were removed to make way for a housing estate. Other trees have been planted to mirror the lost memorials.[6]

Blathwayt's diary reveals that she probably had an affair with Cristabel Pankhurst before Pankhurst moved on to Annie Kenney. Blathwayt made notes of Kenney's sleeping partners when she stayed at Eagle House and jealousy has been proposed as the reason.[7] In 1961 the Local Planning Authority overruled local objections and allowed the gardens to be redeveloped. The house was kept but its contents were auctioned and this included a Boadicea brooch given by Annie Kenney to Mary Blathwayt. The garden did not completely go unnoticed as a local journalist noted that the contents of the house were unimportant when compared to the suffragette's garden.[8]

See also

  • Women's Social and Political Union.
  • Suffragette
  • Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom

References

1. ^{{Cite book|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/50066|title=Mary Blathwayt|last=Hannam|first=June|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|isbn=|location=|pages=|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/50066}}
2. ^{{Cite web|url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/09b3cec7-ebca-42fb-90a3-068b95d21125|title=The Discovery Service|last=Archives|first=The National|website=discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk|language=en-GB|access-date=2017-10-24}}
3. ^{{Cite news|url=http://spartacus-educational.com/Wblathwayt.htm|title=Mary Blathwayt|last=Simkin|first=John|date=September 1997|work=Spartacus Educational|access-date=2017-10-24|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|language=en}}
4. ^{{Cite web|url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/c22ba25e-4d98-4df1-bc5e-08d6c2e3cced|title=The Discovery Service|last=Archives|first=The National|website=discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk|language=en-GB|access-date=2018-04-02}}
5. ^{{Cite news|url=http://spartacus-educational.com/WwentworthV.htm|title=Vera Wentworth|work=Spartacus Educational|access-date=2017-10-27|language=en}}
6. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-12682411|title=Trees honour Bath's suffragettes|date=2011-03-09|work=BBC News|access-date=2017-10-25|language=en-GB}}
7. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jun/11/vanessathorpe.theobserver|title=Diary reveals lesbian love trysts of suffragette leaders|last=Thorpe|first=Vanessa|date=2000-06-11|work=The Observer|access-date=2017-10-27|last2=Marsh|first2=Alec|language=en-GB|issn=0029-7712}}
8. ^{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FikxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT198|title="Architects, Angels, Activists and the City of Bath, 1765?965 ": Engaging with Women's Spatial Interventions in Buildings and Landscape|author=Cynthia Imogen Hammond|date=5 July 2017|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-351-57612-3|pages=198–}}

External links

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  • Read Mary Blathwayt's diaries at the National Archives.
  • View a picture of Mary Blathwayt, Emily Blathwayt and Annie Kenney at Pankhurst Pond in 1910.
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