Emily wilding davison funeral march

Filed in Emily Wilding Davison, Guest Blog Posts, June by Kate Willoughby+ on July 14,

On Saturday 14 June the premiere of my Emily Wilding Davison TO FREEDOM&#;S CAUSE took place in Morpeth not far from where Emily is buried.

My next guest post is by women&#;s suffrage expert Elizabeth Crawford, who discovered a fascinating eyewitness account of Emily&#;s London funeral procession organised by the WSPU one hundred years ago.

I met Elizabeth earlier this year and she gave me some information about Norah Balls, a North East suffragette who I had previously thought was from a working class background.

Thanks to Elizabeth&#;s invaluable advice I listened to an interview with Norah at the Women&#;s Library and realised my mistake!

Norah was swiftly replaced by Bella Faulkner, who was in fact Connie Ellis&#; &#;suffragette pal&#; and the right woman all along.

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