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Agnes Harben

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364:"Suffragettes, let out of prison under the Cat and Mouse Act, used to go to Newlands to recuperate, before returning to prison for a fresh bout of torture. When the county called, as the county still did, it was embarrassed to find haggard-looking young women in dressing-gowns and djibbahs reclining on sofas in the Newlands drawing-room talking unashamedly about their prison experiences. This social clash of county and criminals at Newlands was an early example of the mixing of different social strata which the war was soon to make a familiar event in national life. At that time it was considered startling enough, and it required all the tact of Harben and his socially very competent wife to oil the wheels of tea-table intercourse, and to fill the embarrassed pauses which punctuated any attempt at conversation." 501: 340:. Although Harben herself was not imprisoned for militant action, she gave practical support, rather than denounce those women who did so, and raised money e.g. by an 'American Fair'. The Harbens provided a home for 355:
In autumn 1914, the Harbens' support for women released to recover before being re-arrested (under the 'Cat and Mouse Act' ) suddenly brought the 'county set' in contact with 'criminals' as philosopher
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United Suffragist colours were purple, white and orange used in banners for suffrage events and processions, but their activity extended to clubs for working women in
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Harben and her husband supported the women's right to vote and moved in senior political and intellectual circles, for example dining on 6 February 1912 with Baron
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FEMINISM AND DEMOCRACY: THE WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT IN BRITAIN. WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE NATIONAL UNION OF WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE SOCIETIES 1897–1918
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and many other suffragettes, released from prison to aid recovery from hunger strike and force-feeding. Harben's husband left the
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also became members in 1914, and the organisation grew rapidly, and it took over the publishing of the weekly
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Harben later joined the League of Rights for Soldiers and Sailors Wives and Relatives with others including
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which brought together militant and non-militant women and included men, like her husband, along with
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society, a socialist and internationalist debating society, which influenced the formation of the
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On 13 February 1914, Harben became one of the founder committee members of the
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and grew across the country as they took members from WPSU and NUWSS e.g. in
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helped to establish the Women's International League of Great Britain with
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as a result of the policy and lack of action about this cruel treatment.
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Francis Edward Henry Bostock (1883–1955) who was wounded and awarded the
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The women's suffrage movement : a reference guide, 1866–1928
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Harmsworth, Cecil (2016). Thorpe, Andrew; Toye, Richard (eds.).
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Lieutenant Francis Edward Henry BOSTOCK. Royal Field Artillery
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Robert Vernon Bostock (1878–1949) who was wounded serving in
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suffragist leadership and international delegate for women
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In 1913, Agnes and her husband were delegates to the 7th
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Harben was born on 15 September 1879, at 7 North Street,
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editor, Evelyn Sharp with a book signed by the members (
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Archibald Thomas Bostock (1877–1915) who fought in the
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The Travels in Africa of Major Francis E H Bostock, MC
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Index

Horsham
Jersey
United Suffragists
Fabian Society
Henry Devenish Harben
Henry Eric Southey Harben
suffragist
suffragette
hunger strikers
United Suffragists
Horsham
J.P.
MBE
Army Medical Corps
Boer War
World War One
Battle of Loos
Palestine
Military Cross
Somme
Canadian Mounted Police
Royal Field Artillery
World War One
Arras
Henry Devenish Harben
Newland Park, Chalfont St. Peter
Henry Eric Southey Harben
County cricketer
Sussex
Fabian

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