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Mrs Charlotte Despard LEFT Suffragette Circa 1908 Despard became a member of
Mrs Charlotte Despard LEFT Suffragette Circa 1908
Despard became a member of the National Union of Womens Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). However, in 1906, frustrated by the NUWSS lack of success, Despard joined the Womens Social and Political Union (WSPU). Despard was arrested and imprisoned for her WSPU activities. Charlotte Despard was very critical of the dictatorial way that Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst led the WSPU. In October 1907, Despard, Teresa Billington Greig, Edith How Martyn and seventy other women attempted to make the WSPU a more democratic organisation. When their efforts failed, they left the WSPU and formed the Womens Freedom League. This new organisation still took a militant approach but unlike the WSPU the Womens Freedom League concentrated on using non-violent illegal methods. Despard had met Gandhi in 1909, was influenced by his theory of passive resistance. As the leading figure of the Womens Freedom League, Despard urged members not to pay taxes and to boycott the 1911 Census. Womens Rights Movement
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