Ricardo, Lady

Description: Embarrassing on social occasions in the Edwardian period to have to admit you were a suffragist. Selling WSPU papers in the street and speaking at street-corners. Parental attitudes to her suffrage work (she is sister of Cicely Hale, qv). Educational deprivation by comparison with her brothers. Christabel speaking in Hyde Park, her repartee, etc. Mrs Pankhurst as speaker compared. Feels in retrospect she was cowardly in her advocacy, disliking being on the unpopular side. Grace Roe as a suffragette activist. Her mother's life at home before Lady R got married - paying 'calls' etc. Importance of finding a husband - failure in doing so soured her sister Mildred. Lady R was later active in Women's Institute movement, which she thinks did a great deal for women. Careers of her children.

Date: 29/11/1974

Last import: September 11, 2017