The Suffragette Miss Dugdale addressing a Group of Male Workers, October 1908

The Suffragette Miss Dugdale addressing a group of male workers, October 1908. It is possible the photo depicts Una Dugdale, one of the three Dugdale sisters (Una, Joan and Daisy) who were all involved in militant Suffragette activity.
Such public speaking on Commons and recreation ground required nerves of steel. Male dominated crowds regularly verbally abused and attempted to intimidate the Suffragette speakers.
The Dugdales were a wealthy family with strong suffrage sympathies: the girls' father was a supporter of the Men's League for Suffrage and by 1907 the sisters had joined the Pankhurst led Women's Social and Political Union. Dugdale worked for the WSPU in Aberdeen, London and Brighton and was imprisoned on one occasion after a 'raid' on the House of Commons. In 1912 she married Victor Duval, founder of the Men's Political Union for Women's Enfranchisement . The couple caused controversy when the bride refused to say the word 'obey' as part of her wedding vows. Una wrote a pamphlet 'Love and Honour - but not Obey' which was published in the same year.