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The Spong Family were a family of political and social activists. The children of
Frances Elizabeth Scott and James Osborne Spong were: Minnie Frances Spong (1869â1953); Dora Spong (1879â1969); Annie Eliza Spong (1870-1957); Florence Spong (1873â1944) and Irene Osborn Spong (1882â1960). There were
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into a crowd of around 10,000 who tried to harass them, with only 1,700 police to keep order, Spong was amongst the seventy-five suffragettes were arrested in the ensuing aggression. She was charged for the first time the next day on 1 July 1908 for obstruction and sentenced to a month in
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classes to suffragette speakers. Annie danced whilst Irene sang, and spoke of the balance achieved from gymnastic dance moves: 'our awkwardness drops away, and we become more evenly balanced in body and mind, and instinctively become more human'. Irene also was imprisoned in
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was more well known for modern expressive dance. She opened the Spong School in
Hampstead in 1919, where Spong Rhythmic Dancing was taught and which in 1920 became known as Natural Movement Dancing. With her sister the singer Irene Spong she performed in the Greek drama
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The oldest daughter Minnie Spong (1863-19 June 1953), who became a teacher in Africa, wanted to be known as 'Frances' after their carnivore father named his meat mincing gadget 'the Minnie', and she only returned to
Britain in 1911.
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expressing gratitude for his faith in women's suffrage movement such that "in the years to come the Women of our Race - strong in the
Freedom that you have done so much to win - will abundantly justify that faith."
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or other publications for handing out could progress through London streets, raising awareness and publicity, with less risk of violent reactions from objectors, compared to mass demonstrations.
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for female students. With her sister Dora Spong she joined the WSPU in 1908. Florence was sentenced to one month's imprisonment for stone-throwing in June 1909, and went on
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for suffrage activism, and although married to her father's company managing clerk, Norman Parley in 1910, she retained her maiden name for her singing career.
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to at least 1910. She was unmarried but lived with a fellow artist Joseph Sydell, whom she met at art college. Annie took up dancing under the direction of
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Dora Spong's parents supported her activism and that of her sisters. Their mother
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