ABSTRACT
The policies and methods of the WSPU and the NUWSS were irreconcilable from the spring of 1912. Yet, though the affiliations of the Clarks and the Housmans were each with a different wing of the movement, they were still able to share some suffrage activities over the next two years or so. The Men’s League for Women’s Suffrage and the Tax-Resistance League remained organisations where militant and constitutionalist might work together. To these now was now added the Election Fighting Fund (EFF) of the NUWSS, in which both Alice Clark and Laurence Housman played a prominent role. The correspondence between the Housmans and the Clarks in these years casts fresh light both on the internal politics of the movement, and on new meanings attaching to suffragism in these years. It also reveals some of the exasperation which members of each wing of the movement felt with their respective leaderships.
