The Minerva Café was a vegetarian cafe founded by suffragettes at 144 High Holborn in London's Holborn district.
History
The Minerva Café was founded by the Women's Freedom League in June 1916. The president of the group was vegetarian Charlotte Despard.[1]
The British Socialist Party and the Communist Workers Party of Sylvia Pankhurst also met at the cafe. The cafe produced a "considerable" profit used to fund the Women's Freedom League activities.[2] Constance Markievicz spoke at the cafe in February 1923 at a meeting of the Irish Self-Determination League.[3] The Australian writer Miles Franklin worked as a cook at the cafe.[4]
In 1918, when the Representation of the People Act passed, the Minerva Café served a meal of vegetable soup, lentil cutlets, and rhubarb tarts.[1]
References
- ^ a b Richardson, Elsa (2021). "Cranks, Clerks, and Suffragettes: The Vegetarian Restaurant in British Culture and Fiction 1880–1914" (PDF). Literature and Medicine.
- ^ "The Minerva Café". libcom.org. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
- ^ Lauren Arrington (24 November 2015). Revolutionary Lives: Constance and Casimir Markievicz. Princeton University Press. p. 234. ISBN 978-0-691-16124-2.
- ^ Ross Davies (5 January 2015). Three Brilliant Careers: Nell Malone Miles Franklin Kath Ussher. Boolarong Press. p. 49. ISBN 978-1-925046-82-3.
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