Dorothy Elizabeth Evans was a British feminist activist and suffragette.
15 Facts About Dorothy Evans
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Dorothy Evans broke with Christabel Pankhurst and the WSPU in 1914 over their support for the war, and remained until the end of her life an active peace and women's equality campaigner.
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Dorothy Evans joined the Women's Social and Political Union in 1907 and, after resigning a teaching position, from early 1910 worked full-time as the Union's Birmingham organiser.
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Dorothy Evans organised parties to be held in Birmingham on the night when the 1911 census was being enumerated, so that she and suffragettes could participate in the boycott of the census.
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Dorothy Evans protested in two hunger strikes and endured forced feeding.
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On 3 April 1914 police raided the flat in Belfast Dorothy Evans was sharing with activist Madge Muir, and found explosives.
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Dorothy Evans was cared for by a sister WPSU Hunger Strike Medallist Lillian Metge.
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On 3 July 1914, in a plan hatched with Dorothy Evans, Metge bombed the chancel of Lisburn Cathedral.
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Dorothy Evans broke with the WSPU and the Pankhursts by opposing the war and became an organiser for the Independent Women's Social and Political Union.
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Dorothy Evans became active with an earlier breakaway from the WSPU, the Women's Freedom League, in 1917 helping form a branch in Newcastle upon Tyne with Ada Broughton and Emily Davison.
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Dorothy Evans was involved in the Equal Compensation Campaign from 1941 to 1943 and became a member of the Equal Pay Campaign Committee in 1944, to ensure equal pay in the Civil Service.
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Dorothy Evans was active in the Women for Westminster group campaigning to increase the number of women MPs, and the drafted the Equal Citizenship Bill of 1944.
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Dorothy Evans died after a two-day illness in Glasgow where she was to speak at a meeting.
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Dorothy Evans had maintained simultaneous long-term relationships with Sybil Morrison and Emil Davies, a married Labour Party London County councillor.
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Dorothy Evans refused wedlock, and according to her friend Monica Whately saved for three years in preparation for the baby fathered by Davies in 1921.