Women Writers' Suffrage League
- Women Writers' Suffrage League
The Women Writers' Suffrage League (WWSL) was an organisation in the United Kingdom formed in 1908 by Cicely Hamilton and Bessie Hatton.
The organisation stated that it wanted "to obtain the vote for women on the same terms as it is or may be granted to men. Its methods are those proper to writers - the use of the pen."
ee also
*Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom
External links
* [http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wwriters.htm Spartacus article on the WWSL]
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