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From Cuckfield to Camden Town: The story of artist Robert Bevan (1865-1925) , by Frances Stenlake, published 1999 (64 pp., Trustees of Cuckfield Museum, ISBN-10: 0953539601 & ISBN-13: 9780953539604) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/501548] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Edith Bevan and the Mid Sussex Suffragists, by Frances Stenlake, published 12 November 2009 (96 pp., Unicorn Press Publishing Group, ISBN-10: 1906509107 & ISBN-13: 9781906509101) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/501547] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The lady fired splendidly': Lewes and the Women's Suffrage Campaign, by Frances Stenlake, published 2014 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 152, article) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 18617] & The Keep [LIB/508097] & S.A.S. library   View Online

In its reaction to the women's suffrage campaign conducted throughout the country during the years preceding the First World War, Lewes hardly lived up to its reputation for radicalism. Although certain eminent Lewesians, exhorted by members of the non-militant Brighton and Hove Women's Franchise Society, eventually formed a Lewes branch of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, this was of limited effect in promoting the cause. The problem for constitutional campaigners was that, in Lewes, confusion between non-militant Suffragists and law-breaking 'Suffragettes' prevailed. The proximity of Brighton and the well-publicised activity of militant activists there, members of the Women's Social and Political Union, caused the authorities in Lewes to be in constant fear of infiltration and destruction of property, especially while the organiser of the Brighton and Hove branch of the WSPU lodged in Southover High Street. The detention in Lewes Prison of women's suffrage campaigners convicted of criminal action contributed to the popular conception of all female campaigners for women's suffrage as bogeywomen, fit only to be impersonated by cross-dressed men in torch-lit processions, and burnt as effigies at Bonfire. The local press provides the only documentation of women's suffrage campaigning in Lewes, but there was no particularly sympathetic newspaper printed in the town. The success of the Cuckfield and Central Sussex Women's Suffrage Society, by contrast, owed much to the assured support of the Mid Sussex Times, printed in Haywards Heath, which repeatedly emphasised that, as a branch of the NUWSS, the CCSWSS was constitutional and law-abiding.

Heathfield Story in New York Public Library, by Frances Stenlake, published June 2014 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 21 no. 2, article, pp.80-85) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/508981]

What a surprise discovery while preparing a talk to the Uckfield Family History Group: photographs to do with Heathfield in New York Public Library! These form part of the Schwimmer/Lloyd collection: Rosika SCHWIMMER was a Hungarian women's rights activist, journalist, pacifist and diplomat; her friendship with American peace campaigner Lola LLOYD began after the outbreak of the First World War when SCHWIMMER was touring the United States putting the case for a non-military solution to the conflict.
The photographs of particular interest to Heathfield date from the years before the War and tell a story little known in the area - about the DRYSDALEs of Cherry Croft, situated to the east of Heathfield, beyond Broad Oak, towards Burwash.

Rehabilitating Kate Fowler Tutt, 1868-1954: Lewes educationalist, social activist and feminist, by Frances Stenlake, published 2016 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 154, article, pp.273-290) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 18939] & The Keep [LIB/509465] & S.A.S. library

The Sun Street Story, by Brian Cheesmur, Rosemary Page, Frances Stenlake and Susan Weeks, published 8 November 2016 (A Street Stories Project, Lewes History Group, ISBN-10: 0995606404 & ISBN-13: 9780995606401) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries