Isabel Giberne Sieveking Explained
| Isabel Giberne Sieveking |
| Birth Date: | 1857 |
| Death Date: | 30 March 1936 |
| Resting Place: | Epsom Cemetery, Surrey, England |
| Death Place: | Kensington, London, England |
| Children: | Lance Sieveking |
| Birth Place: | Epsom, Surrey, England |
| Occupation: | Historian and writer |
Isabel Giberne Sieveking (1857–30 March 1936) was a British suffragette, historian and writer.[1]
Family
Sieveking was born in 1857 in Epsom, Surrey, and was the youngest of the four children.[2] She was raised as a devout Catholic.[3]
Sieveking married timber-merchant Edward Gustavus Sieveking in 1891, who she referred to as "dear Ted". They moved to Hastings.
They had four children:[4]
- Valentine Edgar Sieveking (1892–1918)
- Geoffrey Edward Sieveking (1893–1979)
- Lancelot Giberne Sieveking (1896–1972)[5]
- Elinor Beatrice Sieveking (1898–1989)
She was the secretary of the local branch of the Parents' National Educational Union.
Politics
Sieveking was a suffragette and member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). She participated in the 1911 census boycott, wrote to local newspapers and got caught up in the 1913 Hastings riots when antisuffragists attacked a group of suffrage campaigners on the seafront. When Levetleigh House in St. Leonards-on-Sea was burned down by suffragettes, Sieveking was not involved, but did support the act.[6]
Works
Sieveking was also a historian and writer who published works concerning historic individuals and the so-called Indian Mutiny of 1857:
- Memoirs and Letters of Francis W. Newman, London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. (1909)
- A Turning Point in the Indian Mutiny (1910), dedicated to Thomas Gisborne Gordon
- Autumn Impressions of the Gironde (1910)
- The Memoirs of Sir Horace Mann, London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co (1912)
- The Great Postponement (1912)
She also published in academic journals such as The Antiquary.[7] [8]
Notes and References
- Web site: Wojciechowski . Miranda . 2017-11-01 . The (Extra)ordinary Activism of Isabel de Giberne Sieveking . 2024-11-02 . Libraries of Indiana University Bloomington . en-US.
- Book: O'Hagan, Lauren Alex . The Sociocultural Functions of Edwardian Book Inscriptions, Taking a Multimodal Ethnohistorical Approach . 2021 . . New York . The Upper-Middle Classes . https://ebrary.net/176706/language_literature/upper_middle_classes.
- Web site: A Conventional Radical · Isabel de Giberne Sieveking . 2024-11-02 . sieveking.omeka.net.
- Web site: Jackson . Linda . Sieveking, Isabel Giberne . 2024-11-02 . The Epsom and Ewell History Explorer . en-GB.
- Web site: Siepmann . C. A. . 6 January 2011 . 23 September 2004 . Sieveking, Lancelot de Giberne (1896–1972), writer and radio and television producer . 2024-11-03 . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . en . 10.1093/ref:odnb/31683.
- Web site: Rees . Gareth E. . 2021-04-22 . Radical Victorian Hastings & The Birth of Women’s Suffrage . 2024-11-03 . Unofficial Britain . en-US.
- Sievking, Isabel Giberne. (1906) "English Pageants of the Streets." The Antiquary 2(12): 464-468.
- Sievking, Isabel Giberne. (1907) "An Old Cornish Village." The Antiquary, 3(10), pp. 382-385.
