Elizabeth’s Group is a small but passionate group of local people that is working tirelessly to raise the profile of an unsung hero: Elizabeth Wolstenholme-Elmy.
Our aims are to ensure Elizabeth is known locally, nationally and internationally.
We undertake a wide range of awareness and fund raising activities and have fun whilst doing it – sometimes dressing as suffragists.
We have trustees, a working committee and a growing number of supporters. We are always happy to meet with new people who would like to help us with achieving our aims.
Elizabeth’s Group is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation registered with the Charity Commission. Charity Number: 1181256.
Meet the Team
Want to know more about the people involved? Visit our Trustees page here to learn about Elizabeth’s Group members.
Our Patron: Dr Maureen Wright
Dr Wright, Patron of Elizabeth’s Group, is a historian and author of the first full-length biography of women’s emancipation activist Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy (1918-1933). Dr Wright’s research was initially funded by an Arts and Humanities Doctoral Research Scholarship and she has since published widely on Wolstenholme Elmy’s life and public achievements.
Her book, Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy and the Victorian Feminist Movement: the biography of an Insurgent Woman was published by Manchester University Press in 2011, and is now available in both paperback and digital formats. Dr. Wright’s latest research will be published in 2020 in a women’s suffrage collection from Routledge (edited by Prof June Purvis and Prof June Hannam), where Wright considers Wolstenholme Elmy in the role of feminist ‘heroine’.
Dr. Wright currently works as an Associate Lecturer at the University of Chichester, West Sussex where she teaches on Women’s and Gender History in the Institute of Humanities. Communications can be addressed to her at: M.S.Wright@chi.ac.uk