Letter from Jessie Kenney to Warwick Kenney-Taylor, 1950
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Title
Letter from Jessie Kenney to Warwick Kenney-Taylor, 1950
Subject
Reputation
Description
Jessie Kenney writes to her nephew, Warwick Kenney-Taylor, to give him her account of her role in the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU). This becomes necessary through the course of correspondence between Jill Craigie, a scriptwriter interested in capturing the story of the suffragette movement. Jessie worries that she will brushed off as “Christabel’s Secretary” and not given full recognition for the importance and variety of her contribution to the Cause. “I was then as much an organiser as Mother [Annie Kenney] and Mrs Drummond [Flora ’the General’ Drummond] although I was only 21, but as I worked behind the scenes I was never known so much only in the organisation. London members were devoted to me and my name counted for much behind the scenes.”
Creator
Kenney, Jessie
Publisher
Unknown
Date
April 1950
Rights
Copyright: Estate of Jessie Kenney. All rights reserved. Included here by kind permission of Warwick Kenney-Taylor (son of Annie Kenney) and later generations of the Kenney and Taylor families.
Format
jpeg image file
Language
English (United Kingdom)
Identifier
KP/AK/5
Text Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Letter
Collection
Tags
Citation
Kenney, Jessie, “Letter from Jessie Kenney to Warwick Kenney-Taylor, 1950,” Suffragette Stories, accessed April 26, 2024, https://suffragettestories.omeka.net/items/show/70.