Isabel Giberne Sieveking

Isabel Giberne Sieveking
Born	1857 Epsom, Surrey, England
Died	30 March 1936 Kensington, London, England
Resting place	Epsom Cemetery, Surrey, England
Occupation	Historian and writer
Children	Lance Sieveking

Isabel Giberne Sieveking (1857–30 March 1936) was a British suffragette, historian and writer.[1]

Family

Sieveking was born in 1857 in Epsom, Surrey, and was the youngest of the four children.[2] She was raised as a devout Catholic.[3]

Sieveking married timber-merchant Edward Gustavus Sieveking in 1891, who she referred to as "dear Ted".[1] They moved to Hastings.

They had four children:[4]

• Valentine Edgar Sieveking (1892–1918)
• Geoffrey Edward Sieveking (1893–1979)

• Lancelot Giberne Sieveking (1896–1972)[5]
• Elinor Beatrice Sieveking (1898–1989)

She was the secretary of the local branch of the Parents' National Educational Union.

Politics

Sieveking was a suffragette and member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). She participated in the 1911 census boycott, wrote to local newspapers and got caught up in the 1913 Hastings riots when antisuffragists attacked a group of suffrage campaigners on the seafront.[2] When Levetleigh House in St. Leonards-on-Sea was burned down by suffragettes, Sieveking was not involved, but did support the act.[6]

Works

Sieveking was also a historian and writer who published works concerning historic individuals and the so-called Indian Mutiny of 1857:

• Memoirs and Letters of Francis W. Newman, London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. (1909)
• A Turning Point in the Indian Mutiny (1910), dedicated to Thomas Gisborne Gordon
• Autumn Impressions of the Gironde (1910)
• The Memoirs of Sir Horace Mann, London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co (1912)
• The Great Postponement (1912)

She also published in academic journals such as The Antiquary.[7][8]

References

1. Wojciechowski, Miranda (1 November 2017). "The (Extra)ordinary Activism of Isabel de Giberne Sieveking". Libraries of Indiana University Bloomington. Retrieved 2 November 2024.
2. O'Hagan, Lauren Alex (2021). "The Upper-Middle Classes". The Sociocultural Functions of Edwardian Book Inscriptions, Taking a Multimodal Ethnohistorical Approach. New York: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003020356. ISBN 978-1-003-02035-6.
3. "A Conventional Radical · Isabel de Giberne Sieveking". sieveking.omeka.net. Retrieved 2 November 2024.
4. Jackson, Linda. "Sieveking, Isabel Giberne". The Epsom and Ewell History Explorer. Retrieved 2 November 2024.
5. Siepmann, C. A. (6 January 2011) [23 September 2004]. "Sieveking, Lancelot de Giberne (1896–1972), writer and radio and television producer". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31683. Retrieved 3 November 2024. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
6. Rees, Gareth E. (22 April 2021). "Radical Victorian Hastings & The Birth of Women's Suffrage". Unofficial Britain. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
7. Sievking, Isabel Giberne. (1906) "English Pageants of the Streets." The Antiquary 2(12): 464-468.
8. Sievking, Isabel Giberne. (1907) "An Old Cornish Village." The Antiquary, 3(10), pp. 382-385.