Rose Lamartine Yates

Rose Emma Lamartine Yates (née Janau; 23 February 1875 – 5 November 1954) was an English social campaigner and suffragette.

Together with her lawyer husband she worked for female suffrage from 1908 and during the First World War, and was willing to suffer arrest and incarceration for her beliefs.

After the war she was elected to the London County Council, where she campaigned for equal pay for men and women, better public housing, and the provision of nursery education.

Yates was born in Dalyell Road, Lambeth, London, to a language teacher, Elphège Bertoni Victor Janau (b.

On 24 February 1909, Yates was a member of a deputation led by Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence from Caxton Hall to the House of Commons.

[8] In 1911, Thomas Lamartine Yates was arrested during a demonstration against the government for blocking a bill to allow limited female suffrage.

[10] At the beginning of the First World War the Wimbledon WSPU converted its meeting room and shop into a soup kitchen and opened another in nearby Merton.

Under the latter's leadership the WSPU suspended its militant campaign for female suffrage, instead backing the government in the fight against Germany.

[1][14] Lamartine Yates led the way in building an archive of the suffrage campaign, and, in 1939, she opened the Women's Record House in Great Smith Square, London.

The building was bombed during the Second World War, but some of its records were saved and were moved to the Suffragette Fellowship collection in the Museum of London.