Charlotte Despard

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Charlotte Despard

Charlotte Despard was an Anglo-Irish writer and social activist.

Personal life

Political and social activism

Theosophical Society connections

Writings

The Union Index of Theosophical Periodicals lists 4 articles by or about Charlotte Despard.

Fiction

  • Chaste as Ice, Pure as Snow. 1874.
  • Jonas Sylvester. London, 1886.
  • A Modern Iago: a Novel. London: Remington and Co., 1879. Two volumes.
  • Songs of the Red Dawn. Dublin: Odhla Printing, 1932. Poetry. 16 pages.
  • What the Shepherd Saw: a Tale of Four Moonlight Nights. New York: George Munro, 1881. A collection of very short Christmas stories by Thomas Hardy, Charlotte Despard, and others. Despard wrote The White Lady of Hillbury.

Nonfiction

  • The Christ That Is to Be. Glasgow: Star Publishing Trust, 1920s. 8 pages.
  • [Pamphlet issued by Home Rule for India League]. [London] : Pelican Press, 1910s. Written with George Lansbury. 2 pages. Home Rule for India League.
  • Theosophy and the Woman's Movement. London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1913. Riddle of Life series; no. 4. Available at this website.
  • A Voice from the Dim Millions; being the true history of a working woman. London, 1891. At least 5 editions.
  • Was it Wise to Change? London: Cassell, 1894. Reprinted from Cassell's Magazine.
  • Woman in the Nation. [London:] Women's Freedom League, 1910s.
  • Woman's Franchise and Industry. Women's Freedom League, 1910s.
  • Woman in the New Era. [London:] Suffrage Shop, 1910. "With an appreciation by Christopher Marie St. John."

Additional resources

  • The Charlotte Despard Blogspot.
  • Broderick, Marian. Wild Irish Women: Extraordinary Lives from History. Dublin: O'Brien, 2001.
  • Linklater, Andro. An Unhusbanded Life: Charlotte Despard: Suffragette, Socialist, and Sinn Feiner. London: Hutchinson, 1980.
  • Mulvihill, Margaret. Charlotte Despard: a Biography. London; Boston: Pandora, 1989. 211 pages. "Valiant Women" series.
  • Roberts, Marie.; Mizuta, Tamae. The Rebels: Irish Feminists. London: Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1995.

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