The Women's Marseillaise
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"The Women's Marseillaise" was the former Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) official anthem. It was sung to the tune of La Marseillaise and included words about women's suffrage written by Florence MacAulay. The song was sung by suffragists in both the United Kingdom and the United States.
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"The Women's Marseillasie" was a former official anthem of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU).{{Cite web|url=https://pasttenseblog.wordpress.com/2016/03/23/today-in-londons-musical-history-the-march-of-the-women-premieres-albert-hall-1911/|title=Today in London's musical history: the 'March of the Women' premieres, Albert Hall, 1911.|date=2016-03-23|website=Past Tense|language=en|access-date=2020-01-19}} The song included words written by Florence MacAulay and was sung using the tune of La Marseillaise. Macauley lead the WSPU office in Edinburgh from 1909 to 1913.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ygXwlK_mj50C&q=Florence+Macaulay+suffragette&pg=PT839|title=The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866-1928|last=Crawford|first=Elizabeth|date=2003-09-02|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-43401-4|language=en}}
The song was sung in many different settings, but most often as a form of protest or solidarity for women's rights in both the United Kingdom and the United States. The song was sung in order to lift the spirits of prisoners in Holloway Prison in 1908.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SAdAAAAAYAAJ&q=%22The%20Women's%20Marseillaise%22&pg=PA335|title=The Suffragette: The History of the Women's Militant Suffrage Movement, 1905-1910|last=Pankhurst|first=Estelle Sylvia|publisher=Sturgis & Walton Company|year=1911|pages=335|isbn=9780876810873 |language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qC1uDMCP0wkC&q=%22The%20Women's%20Marseillaise%22&pg=PA69|title=Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences|last1=Lytton|first1=Constance|last2=Warton|first2=Jane|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2010|isbn=978-1-108-02222-4|pages=65|language=en}} Between 1908 and 1911, the Mascottes Ladies Band often performed "The Women's Marsellaise."{{Cite journal|last=Wood|first=Elizabeth|date=1995|title=Performing Rights: A Sonography of Women's Suffrage|journal=The Musical Quarterly|volume=79|issue=4|pages=612|doi=10.1093/mq/79.4.606|jstor=742378|issn=0027-4631}} In 1913, "The Women's Marsellaise" was sung by a protester in Britain during the trial of two suffragettes.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/42540523/detroit_free_press/|title=Apples are Hurled at Judge by Suffragists|date=1913-10-16|work=Detroit Free Press|access-date=2020-01-18|pages=14|via=Newspapers.com}} In 1911, it was performed at a suffrage rally in Idaho.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/42522160/the_bridgeport_times_and_evening_farmer/|title='Women's Marseillaise' Sung by Suffragettes|date=1911-05-02|work=The Bridgeport Times and Evening Farmer|access-date=2020-01-19|pages=8|via=Newspapers.com}} Suffragists in North Dakota also sang "The Women's Marsellaise" at an event in 1917.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/42586334/the_weekly_timesrecord/|title=Dakota Suffragists are Proud of Miss Amidon|date=1917-03-22|work=The Weekly Times-Record|access-date=2020-01-19|pages=2|via=Newspapers.com}}
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