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298 & ••••••••• 131 • From the Diary of SBA [14–22 June 1899] Wed. June 14, 1899. On Steamer Menominee—passed through Straits of Dover—& made longest detour to get into the Thames River—then got aground in the mud—& passengers & baggage had to be transferred to tugs to be taken to some place—& thence train to Liverpool landing & station thence carriages to Hotels— 1 found Mr Blatch at landing—so felt sure of company for Nora— he took nap four wheeler with trunks to Waterloo Station—we a cab with satchels to Temple Hotel to find no room—so we drove to Waterloo—& then waited a long time before Mr B. came with trunks—then to York Road Hotel—where they had one room with two beds—so Mr B. had to sleep on sofa—with chairs in front— it was near midnight before we were settled & in bed— 2 A most tedious day—though bright & sunny—a fearfully cold penetrating wind— 1. SBA left Rochester on 29 May 1899 and sailed on 3 June from New York City on the Menominee of the Atlantic Transport Line,sharing her stateroom with Nora Blatch. 2. The “some place”of SBA’s tale was likely Fenchurch Street Station,the usual place for ships of the Atlantic Transport Line to drop their passengers. Harry Blatch took the trunks to Waterloo Station,where the party would catch the South Western Railway to Basingstoke the next day.The Temple Hotel on Arundel Street was on the route between the two stations. The party continued in the same direction to get a room at the York Hotel, near Waterloo Station. Thur. June 15, 1899. Left York Road hotel at 9 a.m. for Basingstoke— with Mr B. & Nora Stanton Blatch— found Harriot at station— a bright sunny day—but cool in the shade— 1 Found letters from Mrs Margaret P. Tanner 2 —Bristol—Mrs Fenwick Miller 3 —Mrs Garrett Fawcett 4 —& Mrs Bremner— 5 feel lost apart from our U S. party— Took a nice drive in the country in the p.m— 1. The trip to Basingstoke took a little over an hour. 2. Margaret Priestman Wheeler Tanner (1817–1905) was a member of the extended family of John Bright and his sisters. Twice widowed, she often lived with 14–22 june 1899 ^ 299 her single sisters in Bristol. Tanner worked closely with Josephine Butler in the Ladies National Association, holding the post of treasurer from 1871 to 1881, and she was active in the Liberal party. (Oxford DNB; “Dictionary of Quaker Biography ,”typescript,UkLQ; Mills,John Bright and the Quakers,1:384–85,392–96.See also Papers 4.) 3. Florence Fenwick Miller (1854–1935), an English journalist and suffragist, was another friend from SBA’s trip to England in 1883. Like SBA, she joined the discussion of the franchise held under the auspices of the International Congress of Women on 27 June 1899. In July, when the council had concluded, SBA spent two days visiting Miller and her daughters in Reigate. (Oxford DNB; Rosemary T. Van Arsdel,Florence Fenwick Miller: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, and Educator [Aldershot, England, 2001]; Women in Politics, Being the Political Section of the International Congress of Women, London, July 1899 [London, 1900], 62; SBA diary, 8–9 July 1899, Film, 39:13ff.) 4. Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847–1929) was one of England’s senior suffragists and the author of the essay on England’s suffrage movement for Theodore Stanton’s book, Woman Question in Europe (1884). In previous encounters, SBA had disagreed with her about voting rights for married women. She presided over the suffrage meeting at Queen’s Hall on 29 June 1899. (Oxford DNB.) 5. Christina Sinclair Bremner (1856?–1916), a Scot, taught school in York and published her first book in 1891 after an adventurous trip to India to see her younger brother, a civil engineer. Back in Britain, in October 1892, she was made editor of the Woman’s Herald: A Liberal Paper for Women, succeeding Henrietta Müller, but lost her post when Lady Henry Somerset and the World’s Woman’s Christian Temperance Union took over. While SBA was in London for the International Council, someone presented her with a copy of Bremner’s Education of Girls and Women in Great Britain (1897). (Census of Britain, 1881; John A. Brebner,“Family of James Bremner and Janet Bremner,Wick,Caithness,”October 2009,on-line Brebner/Bremner Genealogical Project; John Theakstone,Victorian and Edwardian Women Travellers: A Bibliography of Books Published in...

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