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- Roe, Gracie
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Eleanor Grace Watney Roe, only daughter of Thomas Henry Roe (1858-1927) and Eleanor Jane Watney (1863-1897), was born 1 August 1885 in Norwood, Surrey, England. She was as suffragette. In 1915 served as chief organiser of the 'Women's Right to Serve' procession in London. She was arrested, and a photograph of her was printed in the 'Daily Mirror'. After World War I she studied theosophy. On 10 August 1921 she arrived in Detroit, Michigan, with her close friend Christabel Pankhurst. Both women settled in California. During the 1930s, Grace was became involved in social work. After the Second World War Grace Roe ran a book shop and metaphysical library in Santa Barbara, California. She acted as literary executor for Christabel after her friend's death in 1958. In 1961 she was vice-president of the Suffragette Fellowship of London. Grace Roe died in Tonbridge, Kent, England in 1979.
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Norwood, Surrey, England.
Streamstown, County Westmeath, Ireland.
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Santa Barbara, California, United States of America.
Tonbridge, Kent, England.
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Vice-president of the Suffragette Fellowship in 1961
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Jennifer Lee, August 2018.
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Atkinson, Diane. 'Rise Up Women!' London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018.