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Naomi Paxton - Researcher and Performer

Sweet Adeline... near and yet so far!

1/8/2014

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Researching my PhD about the Actresses' Franchise League and their work has been and remains wonderful - there's been so much to find and it's a treat to look for it. I've discovered that I love tracking things down! The absence of archives or papers for the most longstanding and active members of the League has been the most frustrating part, although of course it's always worth being optimistic about the future.

Then there are the near misses... here are two that I've experienced that are to do with the actress Adeline Bourne.

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Trays for Women part 2 - an update!

29/6/2014

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You might have read my blog post about the Actresses' Franchise League and their conversation with a manager of the Empress Rooms in London in 1914...

If you haven't then please do by clicking here!


I took advantage of the newly opened Newsroom at the British Library to look up the original story in the Daily News... hoping that it might be possible to find which member of the AFL had drawn the sketches... and discovered that Votes for Women had put a rather positive spin on the end of the story, 
one which I had believed and then blogged about. 


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It might have happened this way... I do hope so

17/5/2014

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Picture the scene thus:

Two Edwardian actresses meet 
whilst walking through Covent Garden.

 It's a balmy afternoon some time in autumn 1913. 

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Trays for Women - can they handle it?

27/1/2014

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Last week the press reported negative comments made by the leader of UKIP about working women who take time off to have families - challenged about his views on working mothers he said "I can't change biology"

This old-fashioned (to be kind) and backward (to be honest) view reminded me of some equally ridiculous and sexist discrimination towards working women - in this case actresses - almost exactly a century ago...


On 29th January 1914 the Actresses' Franchise League held a Tea Dance at the Empress Rooms in Kensington.

It was a fundraiser for the League and as well as 
Tea and the Tango, there were all sorts of other entertainments, including palmistry. 
Well-known actresses became waitresses for the occasion to serve the tables and thereby hangs a tale...

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Sentimental Suffragette Sunday Thoughts!

13/5/2013

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​I’m working today in a box office in a West End theatre and took the opportunity to come into Blackfriars station and then walk into town along Fleet Street – it’s so quiet on a Sunday and it was a pleasure to enjoy the buildings and the sunshine.

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A year since my US research trip...

6/5/2013

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US Suffrage banner in the Sewall-Belmont House, Washington DC

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