Lavena Saltonstall
[5] During 1907 and 1908, she invited the founder of the WSPU, Emmeline Pankhurst to give speeches locally in support of the strike and about votes for women.[2][7] After her time in prison, Saltonstall started to distance herself from the WSPU and instead focused more on the working class and Labour movements.[2] She studied economics, and took part in a summer school in 1911 held at the University of Oxford, where she debated philosophy with her academic tutors,[8] shot back at criticisms of the initiative from the press and denounced the housing conditions that were available to the servants who worked maintaining the university.[9] Through the WEA, Saltonstall also raised awareness of how working in the day and doing housework in the evenings prevented many working class women from participating in political activity, explaining how: "in my native place the women, as a general rule, wash every Monday, iron on Tuesdays, court on Wednesdays, bake on Thursdays, clean on Fridays go to market or go courting again on Saturdays and go to Church on Sundays.[2][3] A blue plaque is displayed in the window of the house on Unity Street, Hebden Bridge where Saltonstall used to live.