Nora Elam ( eng. Norah Elam , also known as Nora Dacre Fox, nee Nora Doherty, 1878–1961) is a well-known suffragist and feminist . It gained notoriety as a supporter of the fascist movement in Great Britain .
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Biography
Born in Dublin , Ireland , in the family of John and Charlotte Doherty. She moved with her family to England and by 1891. She lived in London . In 1909 she married Charles Richard Dacre Fox.
Political activities
Nora became quite famous in England as a member of the Socio-Political Union of Women. In this movement, managed to take the highest post - General Secretary. From May to July 1914, she was detained three times and imprisoned Holloway for “terrorist acts”. She even managed to get a medal for the hunger strike.
In 1918, Nora Elam became an independent candidate in Richmond ( Surrey ) in parliamentary elections . However, she lost the election. In the same year, she campaigned for the internment of citizens of hostile states.
Elam claimed to be one of the founders of the London and Provincial Anti-Vivisection Society (LPAVS). No documentary evidence of this has been found, but it is known that she has been an active member of this movement since its creation in 1900.
In the 1930s, under the auspices of LPAVS, she published two brochures: “MRC: what it is.” and how it works, as well as the “Review of Vitamins.” These works ended up in all public libraries in the country.
By the early 1930s, she broke up with her husband. Her new elect was Edward Descu Dudley Vallance Elam, whose name she took. The couple lived in Sussex , where they became active members of the local branch of the Conservative Party .
However, Elam and Edward soon joined the British Fascist Union (BUF) Oswald Mosley . This happened almost immediately after its creation in 1932.
Elam was an influential figure in the women's section. Here she met Wilfred Risdon, the propaganda director, who later became her counterpart at LPAVS.
Elama became a famous author of the fascist press. In 1937, she was nominated as a BUF candidate in Northampton County. However, the elections did not take place because of the war. Mosley actively speculated Nora Elam's sufragist past to reject the anti-feminist accusations of national socialism. According to him, her candidacy “forever killed the version that national socialism seeks to make women only housewives.” In 1940, Nora and Dudley Elam were arrested on the basis of defense laws.
A fascist supporter interned at Holloway Prison. Along with her here were a few supporters of Adolf Hitler , including Diana Mosley.
Family
Elama gave birth to her only son, Evelina (born 1922). Her granddaughter Angela McPherson told in a BBC documentary that until 2002 she had no idea about the role that Elam played in the center of the fascist movement. Angela knew that Elam was a suffragette. But later a new page opened in the life of a grandmother. As a result, Angela publicly renounced the views of her cousin.
Links
- Durham, Martin (1998). Women and Fascism . Routledge. pp. 43-51. ISBN 978-0-415-12280-1 .
- McPherson, Angela; McPherson, Susan (2011). Mosley's Old Suffragette - A Biography of Norah Elam . ISBN 978-1-4466-9967-6 . Archived from the original on 13 January 2012.
Note
- ↑ 1 2 http://dib.cambridge.org/viewReadPage.do?articleId=a9417
- 2 1 2 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography / C. Matthew - Oxford : OUP , 2004.