Catalogue description Groves, Mrs

How she became a suffragette. Family background of Labour activism and vegetarianism. Her parents, Lydia Dean and James Robinson. Influence of Loftus Hare in the neighbourhood with his lectures and theosophy. Selling suffragette papers in Derby market-place. Going to London in 1908 for the Hyde Park demonstration. Her mother's pioneering spirit. Her attitude to dress. Split with the Pankhurst's over attitudes to the first world war. Her mother's later career and way of bringing up her children. The burning of Breadsall church. Her mother's helpfulness to people in trouble. Her local role in supplying vegetarians through her store. Her religion. Her later attitude to feminist causes.