by Mary Holmes | Jan 29, 2022
Plug Riots and Chartists, Preston 25% cuts in wages: bread prices rising: most workers not allowed to vote By the age of 8 Elizabeth was not only growing up in the radical city of Manchester but riots were rocking the country. There were the Plug Riots of 1842,... Read More
by Mary Holmes | Jan 13, 2022
Elizabeth was born in 1833 and by then Manchester was a radical hotbed. So, how did her young life encourage her to become a feminist? Well, actually the word feminist didn’t enter our language until the 1890s, but from her young days Elizabeth showed the desire to... Read More
by Mary Holmes | Oct 7, 2021
Elizabeth was ‘a tiny Jenny-wren of a woman, with bright bird-like eyes, and a little face, child-like in its merriment …’ (Sylvia Pankhurst: 1931) Welcome to my first post about Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy, truly a feisty feminist who laid the foundations upon which... Read More
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