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Isabel Giberne Sieveking

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Isabel Giberne Sieveking
Born 1857
Epsom, Surrey, England
Died 30 March 1936 (aged 78–79)
Queen’s Gate, Kensington, London, England
Resting place Epsom Cemetery, Surrey, England
Occupations Historian and writer
Children 4, including Lance Sieveking
Relatives Edgar Giberne (brother) Gerard Manley Hopkins (cousin)

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

Early life

Sieveking was born in 1857 in Epsom, Surrey, and was raised as a devout Catholic.[2] She was the youngest of the four children born to George Sieveking and Maria Sieveking Giberne.[3] Her first cousin was the poet and priest Gerard Manley Hopkins.[4][5]

Marriage

When she was 33 years old, Sieveking married 25 year old timber-merchant Edward Gustavus Sieveking on 25 April 1891.[3] She referred to him as "dear Ted".[1] They lived in Harrow and Hastings.[6]

They had four children:[6]

  • Valentine Edgar Sieveking (1892–1918)[7]
  • Geoffrey Edward Sieveking (1893–1979)
  • Lancelot Giberne Sieveking (1896–1972)[8][9]
  • Elinor Beatrice Sieveking (1898–1989)

Sieveking's public views on marriage were radical and she wrote to the Hastings and St. Leonard's Observer on 3 December 1910 that "The highest ideal was not marriage. It could not be when sex was purely temporal."[10] In the 12 July 1913 issue of the suffragette magazine The Awakener, Sieveking argued that marriage cannot satisfy women's desires for close companionship in an article titled "The Celibate Englishwoman."[11]

Activism

Sieveking was a suffragette and member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). She participated in the 1911 census boycott, with the enumerator writing on her return: "Husband had left the town when I called and the wife, who is a suffragette, refused to sign as correct".[6] She also wrote to local newspapers and got caught up in the 1913 Hastings riots when antisuffragists attacked a group of suffrage campaigners on the seafront.[3]

When Levetleigh House in St. Leonards-on-Sea was burned down by suffragettes, Sieveking was not involved, but did support the act.[12]

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

Works

Sieveking was also a historian and writer who published works concerning historic individuals[13] and the Indian Rebellion of 1857:

She also published in academic journals such as The Antiquary.[15][16]

Death

Sieveking died on 30 March 1936 at Queen’s Gate, Kensington, London, England.[6][17]

References

  1. Back to citation occurrence 1.0 Back to citation occurrence 1.1 Wojciechowski, Miranda (1 November 2017). "The (Extra)ordinary Activism of Isabel de Giberne Sieveking". Libraries of Indiana University Bloomington. Retrieved 2 November 2024.
  2. Back to citation "A Conventional Radical · Isabel de Giberne Sieveking". Omeka. Retrieved 2 November 2024.
  3. Back to citation occurrence 3.0 Back to citation occurrence 3.1 Back to citation occurrence 3.2 O'Hagan, Lauren Alex (2021). "The Upper-Middle Classes". The Sociocultural Functions of Edwardian Book Inscriptions, Taking a Multimodal Ethnohistorical Approach. New York: Routledge. pp. 111–112. doi:10.4324/9781003020356. ISBN 978-1-003-02035-6.
  4. Back to citation Feeney, Joseph J. (3 March 2016). The Playfulness of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Routledge. p. 37. ISBN 978-1-317-02119-3.
  5. Back to citation Stapleton, Julia (1 August 2024). G K Chesterton at the Daily News, Part II, vol 6: Literature, Liberalism and Revolution, 1901-1913. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-040-24884-3.
  6. Back to citation occurrence 6.0 Back to citation occurrence 6.1 Back to citation occurrence 6.2 Back to citation occurrence 6.3 Jackson, Linda (2014). "Sieveking, Isabel Giberne". The Epsom and Ewell History Explorer. Retrieved 2 November 2024.
  7. Back to citation O'Connor, Mike (1 January 2006). Airfields and Airmen: The Channel Coast. Pen & Sword Books Limited. ISBN 978-1-84415-258-2.
  8. Back to citation 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, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
  9. Back to citation Hendy, David (1 June 2013). "Painting with Sound: The Kaleidoscopic World of Lance Sieveking, a British Radio Modernist". Modern British History. 24 (2): 169–200. doi:10.1093/tcbh/hws021. ISSN 2976-7016.
  10. Back to citation "Marriage, Love, and Friendship · A Conventional Radical · Isabel de Giberne Sieveking". Omeka. Retrieved 23 March 2025.
  11. Back to citation ""The Celibate Englishwoman" · A Conventional Radical · Isabel de Giberne Sieveking". Omeka. Retrieved 23 March 2025.
  12. Back to citation Rees, Gareth E. (22 April 2021). "Radical Victorian Hastings & The Birth of Women's Suffrage". Unofficial Britain. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
  13. Back to citation Sadlier, Darlene J. (9 August 2019). The Lilly Library from A to Z: Intriguing Objects in a World-Class Collection. Indiana University Press. p. 76. ISBN 978-0-253-04268-2.
  14. Back to citation Paul, E. Jaiwant (1 August 2011). The Greased Cartridge: The Heroes and Villains of 1857-58. Roli Books Private Limited. ISBN 978-93-5194-010-4.
  15. Back to citation Sievking, Isabel Giberne. (1906) "English Pageants of the Streets." The Antiquary 2(12): 464-468.
  16. Back to citation Sievking, Isabel Giberne. (1907) "An Old Cornish Village." The Antiquary, 3(10), pp. 382-385.
  17. Back to citation A Life of Service: An Appreciation of the Life of Madame Sieveking. Hastings and St. Leonard's Observer. 18 April 1936.
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