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Edith 'Biddy' Lanchester (28 July 1871 – 26 March 1966) was an English socialist, feminist and suffragette. She became well known in 1895 when her family had her incarcerated in an asylum for planning to live with her lover, who was an Irish, working-class labourer.
30 de nov. de 2020 · Edith Lanchester was a socialist and suffragist who refused to marry and lived with her lover. She was forcibly committed to a lunatic asylum by her family and abused, but later became a communist activist and the mother of actress Elsa Lanchester.
Edith Lanchester o el precio de la libertad. En la época victoriana, llena de convencionalismos sociales, una mujer proveniente de una familia acomodada desafió los preceptos sociales, se involucró en la lucha obrera y sufragista y rehusó unirse en matrimonio con su compañero.
16 de dic. de 2021 · Suddenly Lanchester’s brothers seized her, tied her hands together, and dragged her screaming out of the house and into a waiting carriage. Her landlady tried to restrain them but was pushed aside, receiving a black eye for her trouble.
5 de feb. de 2018 · Learn about the life and achievements of Edith Lanchester, a pioneer of socialist feminism in 19th century Britain. She refused to marry her lover and faced a forced commitment, but later became a secretary to Eleanor Marx and a pacifist activist.
25 de oct. de 2018 · Edith Lanchester was a socialist and freethinker who refused to marry her lover James Sullivan and was sectioned by her family. She was released after a campaign by her friends and became a prominent suffragist and socialist activist.
10 de oct. de 2021 · In the autumn of 1895 Edith Lanchester was 24. Born into a middle-class family, she had studied at the Birkbeck Institute and worked as a City clerk. She was also already a seasoned socialist campaigner; her ringing voice, it was said, could command the attention of the most hostile of crowds.
