MAUDE ROYDEN,SUFFRAGIST,LECTURER,PROMOTION 1923,N.Y. TOWN HALL,+ WWI NY SUFFRAGE

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MAUDE ROYDEN,SUFFRAGIST,LECTURER,PROMOTION 1923,N.Y. TOWN HALL,+ WWI NY SUFFRAGE:
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as pictured...scrape on reverse of Maude Royden sheet.add $2.50 for 1st class/Insured to U.S...Maude RoydenFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSex and Common Sense by Agnes Maude Royden; 1922

Agnes Maude Royden,CH(23 November 1876 – 30 July 1956), later known asMaude Royden-Shaw, was apreacherandsuffragist.

Life and career

Maude was born inMossley Hill,Liverpool, the daughter ofSir Thomas Bland Royden, 1st Baronet, ofFrankbyHall,Birkenhead. She was educated atCheltenham Ladies\' CollegeandLady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Whilst in Oxford she started a lifelong friendship with fellow suffragistKathleen Courtneywho had the same alta mater.[1]Afterwards Royden, for some years, didsettlementwork in Liverpool.

She also lectured on English literature for theuniversity extensionmovement and in 1909 was elected to the executive committee of theNational Union of Women\'s Suffrage Societies. From 1912 to 1914 she edited theCommon Cause, the organ of the union.

She broke with the NUWSS over its support for the war effort. She became the secretary of theFellowship of Reconciliationwith otherChristian pacifists. Although unable to travel to the women\'s peace congress in the Hague in 1915, when theWomen\'s International League for Peace and Freedomwas established there, she became the vice-president. Her friend Kathleen Courtney had attended.[1]

In a 1917 speech she used the oft-cited phrase: \"The Church [of England] should go forward along the path of progress and be no longer satisfied only to represent the Conservative Party at prayer.\"[2]

Royden became well known as a speaker on social and religious subjects, and in 1917 became assistant preacher at theCity Templein London, being thus the first woman to occupy this office.

AfterWorld War I, Royden\'s interest shifted to the role of women in the Church. In 1929 she began the official campaign for theordination of womenwhen she founded theSociety for the Ministry of Women. The first woman to become aDoctor of Divinityin 1931, Royden made several worldwide preaching tours from the 1920s to the 1940s.

In 1939, she renounced pacifism believing Nazism to be a greater evil than war.

In 1944, she married a recently widowed cleric, the Reverend Hudson Shaw, whom she had loved for more than forty years.