Enid Stacy

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Enid Stacy
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(m. 1897)​

Enid Stacy (10 June 1868 – 4 September 1903) was an English

Katharine St John Conway, with whom she shared an interest in John Ruskin and Anglo-Catholicism.[2]

In 1889, there was a wave of strikes in Bristol and Stacy was convinced by a speech of

National Union of Gas Workers and General Labourers as an organiser, leading strikes among cotton workers and confectionery workers, and becoming honorary secretary of the Association for the Promotion of Trade Unionism Among Women.[2]

Over time, Stacy came to focus more on lecturing, initially for the Fabian Society and the Labour Church, then from 1893 for the new Independent Labour Party (ILP).[4] That year, she spent some time living in the Starnthwaite colony for the unemployed, but they were soon evicted.[2] From 1895, she worked full-time for the ILP, serving on its national administrative council from 1896 to 1899.[5] She challenged Keir Hardie for the chairship of the ILP in 1898.[6]

Stacy also wrote frequently for The Clarion and joined the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies.[7] In 1896, she met the Anglo-Catholic vicar Percy Widdrington at the International Congress of Socialists.[2] They married the following May, initially living in Newcastle upon Tyne, then later in Calderbrook.[2] Even after having a child, Stacy spent six months of the year travelling and lecturing on socialist and feminist topics, until she died suddenly on 4 September 1903.[2]

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Citations

  1. ^ Collette 2009, p. 50; Hannam 2007.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Hannam 2007.
  3. ^ Banks 1985, pp. 194–195.
  4. ^ Banks 1985, pp. 194–195; Hannam 2007.
  5. ^ Collette 2009, p. 51; Hannam 2007.
  6. ^ Collette 1989, p. 19.
  7. ^ Banks 1985, pp. 194–195; Miller 2013, p. 284.

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