Evelina Haverfield

Sherborne’s & the fight for women’s suffrage

To celebrate the centenary of the 1918 Representation of the People Act (which gave the vote to women over the age of 30 who met a property qualification) we look here at the role local women played in the campaign for women’s suffrage: Sherborne and the Fight for Women’s Suffrage See also: Evelina Haverfield’s recipe book … Read more

Suffragette Soup?

From 1890 to 1893, the Dorset Suffragette Evelina Haverfield (1867-1920) lived at West Hall, an Elizabethan manor house at Folke near Sherborne, Dorset.  Three years earlier, in February 1887, Evelina (née Scarlett) had married Major Henry Wykeham Brook Tunstall Haverfield RA (1846-1895) and by 1890 they had two sons, John Campbell Haverfield (1887-1915) and Brook … Read more