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| Surname | Snowden |
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| Forename/s | Ethel Annakin | |
| Other Names | nee Annakin | |
| Dates | (1880 - 1951) |
| Biographical Notes | Born in Harrogate, daughter of a prosperous builder. Was a pupil teacher together with Mary Gawthorpe around 1894 and later on formally trained at Liverpool Training College. Taught at Nelson in 1904. Became member of the Leeds Women's Suffrage Society founded by Isabella Ford, Bessie Ford and Helen Cordelia in 1890. An ILP suffragist. Member of the NUWSS and an active suffrage speaker in Britain and in the USA. Non-militant suffragist. Joined the Leeds ILP in 1903. Was a lecturer for the ILP. Her first speech was at the Keighley Labour Institute in September 1903. As an ILP member she helped organise practical relief to the mining families in Hemsworth who had been evicted for not paying the rent and Board of Guardians refused to give them food for their children. She helped organise food and clothing parcels. Resigned from the ILP on the issue of adult suffrage. Rejoined ILP in 1915. In 1905 married Philip Snowden||, chair of the NAC of the ILP, in the Otley registry office, with only her sister and Isabella and Bessie Ford as guests of the bride. A temperance advo,cate|| she became involved in a long campaign against the consumption of alcohol in the Leeds ILP social club, a campaign vigorously opposed by its male members. In 1912 elected member of the first Election Fighting Fund, established by the NUWSS to raise money to support Labour Party elections. A pacifist during the First, World War|| she was a member of the British section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and an ardent supporter of the Women's Peace Crusade. After the war, she was a member of the Labour Party National Executive for a brief period. Was a member of the BBC Board of Governors 1926-1932. Publications: The Woman Socialist (1907) The Feminist Movement (1913) Wom'en~~s suffrage in America: a reply to Mrs. Humphry Ward (1909) |
| Sources Used | J. Hannam (1989), E.Crawford (1999) |
| Associated Places | Harrogate |