Introduction Slides
An introduction to the Suffragette Stories project
Sinclair, Fiona
2018
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Student Discovery Workshop
Sinclair, Fiona
2018
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Creative Writing Workshop
Lesson plan for suffragette creative writing exercises
Sinclair, Fiona
2018
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Orient Line to Australia menu and pamphlet
Work
During the 1920s and 1930s, Jessie Kenney (1887-1985) worked for the Furness and Orient lines, travelling around the world. She kept these itinerary materials from an Orient Line journey to Australia. These included information pamphlets on stopover cities such as Colombo, Sri Lanka, as well as historical overviews and maps. Featured example is a pamphlet on the Suez Canal, Port Said and Cairo, Egypt. The descriptions are clearly aimed at European travellers and are often dismissive of native cultures such as the following related to Cairo: “Cairo, in fact, is now a modern Europeanised city, with the largest population Africa. The population is immensely varied and in itself affords an amusing study. Apart from the modern city there remains a large native quarter as intricate and as squalid as the native quarters of other African cities.”
Another featured item is a menu from the return leg of the journey, which took place from 24 November 1938 to 12 January 1939. The dinner service includes fillets of turbot, roast duckling, globe artichokes, and strawberry biscuit ice.
Also included are maps of the Suez Canal and Cairo.
Orient Line
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Orient Line
24 November 1938 - 12 January 1939
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Excerpts from Annie Kenney's childhood writing book
Writing
Hand-written notebook kept by Annie Kenney during her early adulthood in Oldham. Annie joined the WSPU [Women’s Social and Political Union] in 1905 and left her family home. The notebooks includes copies of inspirational quotations, poems, stories, and articles Annie found interesting at the time. Featured here are a story called “The West Thorpe Mystery”, an article - “Love to Our Neighbours”, and an excerpt from Mary Wood-Allen’s 1905 book “What a Young Woman Ought to Know.”
Kenney, Annie
Kenney Papers, University of East (UEA) Anglia Archives
Unknown
19??
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Excerpts from Annie Kenney's unpublished manuscript 'The Opening'
Women's rights
Typescript of Annie Kenney’s book on women’s history and emancipation, "The Opening". It includes essays on Queen Elizabeth I, Mary Wollstonecraft and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
“I have re-introduced those women who stood out in our national life as the greatest characters of their day. The veterans for Women’s Emancipation [. . .]”
Kenney, Annie
Unpublished
19??
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Excerpt from Jessie Kenney's unpublished autobiography #5
Working class families
Excerpt from Jessie Kenney’s unpublished autobiography, “The Flame and the Flood.”
In this excerpt, Jessie shares memories from her early childhood. “As a young girl I was a real Yorkist and the world to me consisted of ‘black and white’,” she writes. The “white” were her parents’ house (referred to as Whams House), the church, and the moors. Annie and Jessie loved the moors so dearly that Annie had her ashes scattered over them after her death. The “black” were the cotton factories in Lees, Springhead, and Oldham. She writes of the cotton mills as dark forces that “swallowed up” her older brothers and sisters.
Kenney, Jessie
Kenney Papers, University of East (UEA) Anglia Archives
Unknown
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Christmas card from Christabel Pankhurst to Jessie Kenney, 1954
Friendship
Christmas card from Christabel Pankhurst to Jessie Kenney, 1954. [transcript is available below]
The front depicts a cathedral with the subtitle “Christmas Blessings” and a star with the subtitle “I am the light of the world.” John 8:12. The inside of the card reads: “On the birthday of Our Lord, May you know the joy and comfort of those who dwell safely within His abiding love.”
Christabel writes that the cathedral on the card reminds her of Notre Dame and their time in Paris during the final phase of the campaign for the vote. Christabel spent the last two years of the suffragette struggle exiled in Paris in order to evade the British authorities. During this time Annie and Grace Roe were left in charge of operations in London and Jessie worked as Christabel's secretary in Paris. Her thoughts go to Annie, who had passed away the previous year, and her son, Warwick, and husband, James. “The fine record she made as she passed through the world we can all be highly proud of. She fought a good fight and finished her course triumphantly.”
Pankhurst, Christabel
Unknown
December 1954
Copyright: Estate of Christabel Pankhurst (c/o Helen Pankhurst). All rights reserved.
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Copy of letter from Christabel Pankhurst to Jessie Kenney, 1936
[Transcript below.]
Memorialization
Letter from Christabel Pankhurst to Jessie Kenney, 7 February 1936 on her receiving her D.B.E. Honour.
In this emotional letter, Christabel generously shares the D.B.E. Honour awarded to her with all her suffragette friends and allies. “It is not, as in some cases, just an individual recognition.” She shares feelings of pride and satisfaction at this recognition of the achievements of the militant suffragette movement, asking “what other Movement for reform has so completely triumphed!” Imagining the moment when she receives the Honour, she states, “it will be a great moment in the history of the Movement that begun thirty-one years ago, with the protest at the Free Trade Hall. I shall be thinking of Annie, my fellow soldier in that first battle!”. She ends the letter with an expression of impassioned gratitude for Jessie’s service to the Cause.
Pankhurst, Christabel
Unknown
7 February 1936
Kenney, Jessie
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Invitation to Meeting with French Women Munition Workers
Memorialization
Invitation from the Lord Mayor of London’s Office to Jessie Kenney to meet French Women Munition Workers on 7 December 1917. Jessie was a valued asset for the British war effort during WWI, travelling around Europe on government business, including her well-publicised trip to Russia with Emmeline Pankhurst.
Office of Lord Mayor of London
Kenney Papers, University of East (UEA) Anglia Archives
Unknown
2 December 1917
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Certificate of Proficiency in Radiotelegraphy (Jessie Kenney)
Work
After the end of WWI, Jessie Kenney (1887-1985) decided to train as a Marine Radio Officer. She received her First Class Certificate of Proficiency in Radiotelegraphy on 9 April 1923, but was not allowed to put her skills to active work due to her gender. Instead she worked as a stewardess on around-the-world cruises during the 1920s and 1930s, including for the Furness and Orient Lines.
HM Government Office of the Postmaster General
Kenney Papers, University of East (UEA) Anglia Archives
HM Government Office of the Postmaster General
9 April 1923
Kenney, Jessie
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Letter from Christabel Pankhurst to Jessie Kenney, 1918
Political activists
[Transcription is available below] Letter from Christabel Pankhurst to Jessie Kenney from 29 November 1918.
Christabel writes to Jessie from the Smethwick election campaign, where Christabel was running to become an MP during the first General Election in which women had the right to vote as well as to stand as MP candidates. She writes about the horrid weather and her busy campaign life: “You can imagine what work it has been to get the organisation side going. 3000 absent voters to circula[rise]. committee [loans], hard to get [through] the political views of their landlords etc. etc.” Christabel also reports that Cynthia Maguire and other retired suffragettes were putting their organising skills to work again and doing well. She mentions that her final election meeting had taken place the night before and she found it “most encouraging.” Very few of her political opponents made objections, she tells Jessie, “No Unionist [Irish Unionist] opposition and the only Labour opposition came from measly Bolsheviks and very few at that.”
Pankhurst, Christabel
Kenney Papers, University of East (UEA) Anglia Archives
Unknown
29 November 1918
Kenney, Jessie
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