Sarah Ellen (Nell) Kenney was the third child of a Horatio Kenney and his wife Ann Wood.
She was put to work in the cotton mills at an early age. By 1907, she was working as a shop girl in Bingley, Yorkshire, when she was arrested and imprisoned for demonstrations at the House of Commons. After her release she travelled to the South of France, where she confronted Prime Minister Campbell Bannerman in Cannes over Votes for women. Nell became a local WSPU organiser in the West Midlands. There, during an open-air suffragette meeting she met a young journalist, Frank Randall Clarke. They married and in 1908-9 emigrated to Canada. They eventually settled in Montreal where Frank, after initially working as a journalist, became active in schemes for the training and employment of the disabled.
She was put to work in the cotton mills at an early age. By 1907, she was working as a shop girl in Bingley, Yorkshire, when she was arrested and imprisoned for demonstrations at the House of Commons. After her release she travelled to the South of France, where she confronted Prime Minister Campbell Bannerman in Cannes over Votes for women. Nell became a local WSPU organiser in the West Midlands. There, during an open-air suffragette meeting she met a young journalist, Frank Randall Clarke. They married and in 1908-9 emigrated to Canada. They eventually settled in Montreal where Frank, after initially working as a journalist, became active in schemes for the training and employment of the disabled.
Sarah Ellen (Nell) Kenney was the third child of a Horatio Kenney and his wife Ann Wood.
She was put to work in the cotton mills at an early age. By 1907, she was working as a shop girl in Bingley, Yorkshire, when she was arrested and imprisoned for demonstrations at the House of Commons. After her release she travelled to the South of France, where she confronted Prime Minister Campbell Bannerman in Cannes over Votes for women. Nell became a local WSPU organiser in the West Midlands. There, during an open-air suffragette meeting she met a young journalist, Frank Randall Clarke. They married and in 1908-9 emigrated to Canada. They eventually settled in Montreal where Frank, after initially working as a journalist, became active in schemes for the training and employment of the disabled.
She was put to work in the cotton mills at an early age. By 1907, she was working as a shop girl in Bingley, Yorkshire, when she was arrested and imprisoned for demonstrations at the House of Commons. After her release she travelled to the South of France, where she confronted Prime Minister Campbell Bannerman in Cannes over Votes for women. Nell became a local WSPU organiser in the West Midlands. There, during an open-air suffragette meeting she met a young journalist, Frank Randall Clarke. They married and in 1908-9 emigrated to Canada. They eventually settled in Montreal where Frank, after initially working as a journalist, became active in schemes for the training and employment of the disabled.
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