Margaret Stockman

Dates: Unknown

Lived at: 180 Willifield Way

Suffrage organisation(s):

• Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)
• Probable WFL member

Key roles:

• Prominent member of the Women's Group of the Fabian Society
• Fabian speaker at suffrage rallies including at the Hyde Park Coronation rally
• Presided at the first public meeting of the Barnet branch of the WSPU in 1910

1911 Census return

• Margaret and her husband were census refusers in 1911. She wrote on the form: ‘I refuse all information to a government which governs me without my consent.’ ‘In the absence of the legal occupier, a woman not a person.’

Militant Activities:

• Unknown, but she was a member of the WSPU and presided at one of their meetings.

Other achievements:

• Margaret was a graduate
• She taught about socialism and campaigned for women's political and economic emancipation
• Active in the Fabian Society and Independent Labour Party

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