Catalogue description Campion, Sidney R

Sense of injustice about women's situation stemmed from observing his mother's situation, and from attending WSPU meetings in Leicester for his newspaper. Defending the Pankhursts against violent opposition there. His subsequent move to Wilmslow and Alderley Edge. Contrasting social atmosphere for suffrage meetings there. His move to Leeds on marriage. Interrupting social functions for the cause in Leeds. Conspiracy to burn down Harewood Hall. A government agent provocateur caught in the act. Frank Rutter, curator of Leeds Art Gallery, and his suffragism. Enthusiasm from Leeds university students. Setting fire to pillar boxes. His move to Chorley, and the contrasting social character of the locality. His subsequent career. How Mrs Pankhurst kissed him at Leicester. How he acquired his zest for self-education during teenage. Setting off to London with Ruskin's Seven Lamps and Carlyle's French Revolution in his baggage, and how he returned home. Help in his career from Sir Edward Wood. Speaking in debating societies. His parents. Organising religious services in the wood-mill. Selling newspapers to help the family finances. Youthful zeal for Oscar Wilde. Leeds a good place for getting good newspaper coverage in the Edwardian period. His first wife. (Continues on tape 57).