Mabel Tuke
Mabel Tuke | |
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WSPU | |
Known for | Leading suffragette |
Spouse | George Moxley Tuke |
Mabel Kate Tuke, born Mabel Kate Lear (19 May 1871 – 22 November 1962) was a British suffragette known for her role of honorary secretary of the militant Women's Social and Political Union.
Life
Tuke was born in Plumstead in London in 1871.[1]
In 1901 she married George Moxley Tuke but he died and by 1905 she was back in Britain. She was good friends with Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence who introduced her to the Manchester based Women's Social and Political Union that had been started by Emmeline Pankhurst in 1903. The WSPU were opening a branch in London and in time their headquarters would move there. From 1906 Tuke became the honorary secretary of the WSPU.[1]
Emmeline Pankhurst resisted efforts to remove her absolute authority. In 1907 a group of members led by
Tuke was with the Pankhursts and Pethick-Lawrence near the head of the forty thousand
The next argument at the WSPU involved the Pankhurst's decision to increase the militancy. The Pethick-Lawrences disagreed at the Pankhursts decided to eject them from the WSPU. Emmeline Pethick Lawrence had been the person who had introduced Tuke to the WSPU. Tuke took her leave and went on a convalescent journey to South Africa. In 1925 Tuke and the Pankhurst's created an ill fated tea shop in the South of France at Juan-les-Pins. The tea shop was launched with mainly Tuke's money and she did the baking. The "English Tea Shop of Good Hope" soon closed.[4]
Tuke died in Neville's Cross near Durham in 1962.[1]
References
- ^ a b c Elizabeth Crawford, ‘Tuke , Mabel Kate (1871–1962)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006 accessed 20 Nov 2017
- ISBN 0-415-20651-0, pp. 91–93
- OCLC 1016848621.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-415-23926-4.
- ISBN 978-0-415-21458-2.
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