Sheffield Female Political Association
- Sheffield Female Political Association
The Sheffield Female Political Association was the first women's suffrage organisation in the United Kingdom. ["Knight, Anne", "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography"]
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.[ [http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/whm2003/knight2.html Anne Knight (1786-1862)] ] It also gained the support of Isaac Ironside's local Central Democratic Association. [Jane Rendall, " [http://www.worc.ac.uk/CHIC/women/rendell/glossary.htm Glossary: Women's Politics in Britain 1780-1870: Claiming Citizenship] "] ]The Association passed a resolution written by Abiah Higginbotham [A. P. W. Robson, " [http://www.leedstrinity.ac.uk/histcourse/suffrage/document/aprobsoa.htm The Founding of the National Society for Women's Suffrage 1866-1867] "] 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.
Later in 1851, feminist activists Jeanne Deroin and Pauline Roland wrote to the group for support while imprisoned in France. [Ed. Nancy Hewitt, " [http://www.binghamton.edu/womhist/awrm/intro.htm Internationalizing Feminism in the 19th Century] "]
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