Ann "Annie" Kenny ( Eng. Ann "Annie" Kenney ; September 13, 1879 - July 9, 1953) is an English suffragist from the working class who has become a leading figure in the Women's Political Union.
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Biography
From the age of 10, she worked (sometimes for 12 hours) in a cotton factory for 15 years. Under the influence of the socialist publication Clarion, Robert Blatchford participated in the trade union movement and took up self-education. Thanks to this, she was also involved in the suffragist movement, in the ranks of which she became close friends (and sometimes consisted in relations) with several well-known activists. With another working feminist, Minnie Boldock, she co-founded the first branch of the Women's Political Union in London [4] .
Kenny attracted public attention in 1905 when she and Kristabel Pankhurst (daughters of Robert and Emmeline Pankhurst and one of the three Pankhurst sisters - along with Adeline and Sylvia Estella ) were imprisoned for several days after they interrupted the speech of the head of the Foreign Office Edward Gray and his deputy Winston Churchill at a liberal rally in Manchester . They asked politicians the question of women's voting rights: “When will the Liberal Party allow women to vote?” And they unfurled a banner. It is believed that the incident marked the opening of a new phase in the struggle for women's suffrage in the UK.
Kenny repeatedly got into the police: a total of 13 times she was thrown into prison, where she went on hunger strikes. In 1912-1914, she led protests for women's rights. However, with the outbreak of World War I, in the wake of jingoistic patriotism, she announced a moratorium on suffragist actions - and then disappeared from the political arena when women gained voting rights after the war. Died of diabetes on July 9, 1953, was buried in the Rosicrucian rite.
Literature
- Drinkwater, Carol. My Story: Suffragette. - Scholastic, 2015 .-- ISBN 978-1-407-15652-1 .
- Kenney, Annie. Memories of a Militant . - E. Arnold & Company, 1924. - ISBN 978-9-333-49205-8 .
- Marlow, Joyce. Suffragettes: The Fight for Votes for Women. - Virago, 2013 .-- ISBN 978-0-349-00775-5 .
- Meeres, Frank. Suffragettes: How Britain's Women Fought & Died for the Right to Vote. - Amberley Publishing, 2013 .-- ISBN 978-1-445-60007-9 .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ 1 2 FemBio
- ↑ http://openplaques.org/organisations/bristol_council
- ↑ Jackson, Sarah . The suffragettes weren't just white, middle-class women throwing stones , The Guardian (October 12, 2015). Date of treatment February 22, 2018.
Links
- The Kenney Papers (University of East Anglia)
- Suffragette Stories (University of East Anglia)
- Suffragette photographs
- Manchester Guardian reports the 1905 court case
- Maddy Searle. Annie Kenney: Manchester's forgotten suffragette who was arrested 13 times