KP/AK/5/2/1 - Letter, Jessie Kenney to Warwick Kenney-Taylor, April 1950

Reference code

KP/AK/5/2/1

Level of description

Item

Title

Letter, Jessie Kenney to Warwick Kenney-Taylor, April 1950

Date/s

April 1950

Quantity & Format

1 Letters (typescript)

Creator

Kenney, Jessie

Creator

Kenney-Taylor, Warwick

Administrative/Biographical history

recipient

Scope and content

Jessie Kenney writes to her nephew, Warwick Kenney-Taylor, to give him her account of her role in the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU). This becomes necessary through the course of correspondence between Jill Craigie, a scriptwriter interested in capturing the story of the suffragette movement. Jessie worries that she will brushed off as “Christabel’s Secretary” and not given full recognition for the importance and variety of her contribution to the Cause. “I was then as much an organiser as Mother [Annie Kenney] and Mrs Drummond [Flora ’the General’ Drummond] although I was only 21, but as I worked behind the scenes I was never known so much only in the organisation. London members were devoted to me and my name counted for much behind the scenes.”

Conditions governing reproduction

Existence and location of copies

A digital copy may be viewed at Suffragette Stories: https://suffragettestories.omeka.net/items/show/70

KP - The Kenney Papers
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