Sheffield Female Political Association

The Sheffield Female Political Association was the first women's suffrage organisation in the United Kingdom.^[1]

The reason as to why this group was formed was due to the 1832 Reform Act explicitly banning women from voting, as it defined a voter as a male person.

The group was founded in February 1851 by several Sheffield women who were also active in the Chartist movement, led by Anne Kent and Anne Knight.^[2] It also gained the support of Isaac Ironside's local Central Democratic Association.^[3]

The association passed a resolution written by Abiah Higginbotham^[4] in support of the suffrage of adult women, and persuaded George Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle to submit this as a petition to the House of Lords.^[2]^[5] This probably inspired Harriet Taylor Mill to write The Enfranchisement of Women.^[6]

Later in 1851, feminist activists Jeanne Deroin and Pauline Roland wrote to the group for support while imprisoned in France.^[7]

References

^ "Knight, Anne", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
^ ^a ^b Anne Knight (1786-1862) Archived 2009-07-23 at the Portuguese Web Archive
^ Jane Rendall, Glossary: Women's Politics in Britain 1780-1870: Claiming Citizenship Archived 2007-12-13 at the Wayback Machine
^ A. P. W. Robson, The Founding of the National Society for Women's Suffrage 1866-1867 Archived 2007-07-11 at the Wayback Machine
^ Millicent Fawcett, Women's Suffrage: A Short History of a Great Movement
^ Harriet Taylor Mill (1807 - 1858) Archived 2007-04-14 at the Wayback Machine
^ Ed. Nancy Hewitt, Internationalizing Feminism in the 19th Century Archived 2007-04-09 at the Wayback Machine

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[1] "Knight, Anne", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

[knight-2] Anne Knight (1786-1862) Archived 2009-07-23 at the Portuguese Web Archive

[3] Jane Rendall, Glossary: Women's Politics in Britain 1780-1870: Claiming Citizenship Archived 2007-12-13 at the Wayback Machine

[4] A. P. W. Robson, The Founding of the National Society for Women's Suffrage 1866-1867 Archived 2007-07-11 at the Wayback Machine

[5] Millicent Fawcett, Women's Suffrage: A Short History of a Great Movement

[6] Harriet Taylor Mill (1807 - 1858) Archived 2007-04-14 at the Wayback Machine

[7] Ed. Nancy Hewitt, Internationalizing Feminism in the 19th Century Archived 2007-04-09 at the Wayback Machine

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