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To be eligible for membership, two references were required, one to propose and apply to the secretary with an introductory note, the other to second the proposal. A joining fee and annual subscription would be required upon receipt of election Members in 1913 included Mrs Stephen Spring-Rice of the
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The club provided spacious and hospitable facilities for reading and playing cards. It had smoking rooms and the bedrooms were "comfortable and attractive". It was particularly popular with Canadian women who came to support women’s rights.
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to strengthen the league's work in providing hospitality to its British and visiting colonial members, as well as the wives and parties of visiting colonial politicians. It was opened in 1902 by the colonial secretary
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and by 1906 had 700 members from the United Kingdom and 350 from British colonies. The club was independent but the Victoria League retained the right to nominate one third of the club's central committee.
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The Ladies Empire Club (centre) on a 1952 Ordnance Survey map.
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The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866-1928
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Dictionary of British Women's Organisations 1825-1960
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private members' club
Grosvenor Street
Mayfair
London
Victoria League
Joseph Chamberlain
London Society for Women's Suffrage
suffragist
Marie Willoughby de Broke
Ladies Carlton Club


Edwardian Ladies and Imperial Power
ISBN
978-0-7185-0061-0
Dictionary of British Women's Organisations 1825-1960
ISBN
978-1-136-89770-2
Documenting First Wave Feminisms: Volume II Canada - National and Transnational Contexts
ISBN
978-0-8020-9414-8
The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866-1928
ISBN
978-0-415-23926-4
Lady Marie and the Suffragettes.
'A Happy Holiday': English Canadians and Transatlantic Tourism, 1870-1930
ISBN
978-0-8020-9758-3
"The Ladies Empire Club of London"

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