1912

On page 15 of Votes for Women - Friday 15 March 1912
is this

On page 6 is a report which begins

The atmosphere on Thursday evening at the London Opera House (two days after the arrest of Mr. and Mrs. Pethick Lawrence) was electric with that undaunted spirit which in this Union never dissipates in emotion, but is translated into action. The blow that had fallen on the Union through the arrest of its leaders had made its friends rally in full force, and the huge house was packed from floor to ceiling with an audience of men and women entirely sympathetic and absolutely unwavering in confidence and loyalty, who stood up in a body to applaud and cheer the speakers. Outside, the seething of the crowd and the trampling of the mounted police ; inside, perfect quiet, except for the cheering and applause.

From the front page we learn that Votes for Women was edited by Frederick and Emmeline Pethick Lawrence, appeared weekly and cost 1d (or 1½d by post).

A fine 1909 poster in suffragette colours -

Via - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Votes_for_Women_(newspaper)

It was an exciting time for the paper. On page 1:

Meantime, the other leader roams the earth, the ocean, or the air. Without being in the least like a Boojum, Miss Christabel Pankhurst has silently vanished away, and none knows whither, least of all the eminent detectives of Scotland Yard. Fond of hunting as the British people are, it is a peculiar thing that their sympathy is almost always with the fugitive, and we doubt if Sherlock Holmes himself would have a chance for their favour against a successful Vanishing Lady. So day by day, as the police went searching the British Isles, enquiring with simple guile at the residence of every noted Suffragist in the kingdom, the interest grew with laughter.

Wikipedia:
Boojum - A fictional animal species in Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark; a particularly dangerous kind of snark
The narrative follows a crew of ten trying to hunt the Snark, a creature which may turn out to be a highly dangerous Boojum. The only crew member to find the Snark quietly vanishes, leading the narrator to explain that the Snark was a Boojum after all.

(OR a phenomenon in physics associated with superfluid helium-3 OR a chain of Mexican restaurants in Ireland)

Good fun!

Great image :)

17 October 1912 was a Thursday ... Is that Mrs O'Connor with all the furry bits and muff? Giving us a steely look.

The only wedding featuring an O'Connor on 17 Oct. 1912 that I could find was this one between James Bourke and Johanna O'Connor. But I'm not convinced that it is the right one. The groom looks older than 26 to me.

Mrs. O'Connor is from Granagh, Waterford, making it less likely that it is the above wedding, which was in Tipperary.

In lieu of the real deal, would you settle for Billy Idol? www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KJZeygsovw I got married in blue jeans and we are going on 18 years. Yeah, it was spur of the moment. I bought a tux, but happened to be overseas and, "What the hell, let's do it."

This wedding between Thomas O'Connor and Evelyn Erlwin (?) on the 16th looks a bit more likely.