Minerva Café
| Minerva Café | |
|---|---|
| Restaurant information | |
| Established | 1916 |
| Street address | 144 High Holborn |
| City | London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
The Minerva Café was a vegetarian cafe founded by suffragettes at 144 High Holborn in London's Holborn district.
History[edit]
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[edit]
- ^ 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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