Winifred Langton (20 May 1909 – 7 March 2003) was a British communist and social justice campaigner,[1] the daughter of Adelaide Knight and Donald Adolphus Brown.[2][3][4][5]
Life edit
Win Langton was their youngest daughter, born after Knight’s association with women’s suffrage and named after three women the pair admired: Winifred Blatchford, Teresa Billington- Grieg and Florence Nightingale.[3]
Langton wrote a biography of her parents called Courage: An Account of the Lives of Eliza Adelaide Knight and Donald Adolphus Brown.[3][7]
Secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (Sheerness).[8]
Death and legacy edit
Langton was included in a 2023 installation by Kendal-based visual artist Amy Williams.[9] Unearthed was a large-scale paper wildflower installation, highlighting the stories of lesser-known Cumbria women.[9][10]
(Globe Flower - shaped like the sun, associated with warmth and positive energy) Avid campaigner and activist, who fought for social justice. She raised so much money for medical aid to Vietnam that she was invited to the opening of the hospital she helped to equip.[11]
Reference edit
- ^ Marketing (2022-12-12). "New installation by Amy Williams opens at Blackwell - the Arts & Crafts house". Lakeland Arts. Retrieved 2023-07-28.
- ^ "Winifred Langton". The Guardian. 2003-04-01. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-07-28.
- ^ a b c Jenkins, Lyndsey (2021), Jenkins, Lyndsey; Hughes-Johnson, Alexandra (eds.), "Singing 'The Red Flag' for suffrage: class, feminism and local politics in the Canning Town branch of the Women's Social and Political Union, 1906–7", The Politics of Women's Suffrage, Local, National and International Dimensions, University of London Press, pp. 59–86, ISBN 978-1-912702-95-4, retrieved 2023-07-28
- ^ "Rights in Policy 4". remembering resistance. Retrieved 2023-07-28.
- ^ "Making A Real Difference". Woolwich Works. Retrieved 2023-07-28.
- ^ Stevenson, Graham (19 September 2008). "Win Langton". Graham Stevenson. Retrieved 2023-07-28.
- ^ Langton, Winifred (2007). Courage: An Account of the Lives of Eliza Adelaide Knight and Donald Adolphus Brown. Geoff Gamble. ISBN 978-7-7745-6506-5.
- ^ "Worse than Agadir...". Sheerness Times Guardian. 11 March 1960. p. 7.
- ^ a b "Unearthed by Amy Williams - Blackwell". Lakeland Arts. Retrieved 2023-07-28.
- ^ "Kendal-based artist presents new installation commemorating Cumbrian women". The Westmorland Gazette. 2022-12-17. Retrieved 2023-07-28.
- ^ "The Blackwell Arts & Crafts house presents Unearthed". James Cropper. Retrieved 2023-07-28.