Jane Sbarborough

Jane Sbarborough also known as Sbarabara (1842 — 1925), was born in Canada East but is recognized as a British suffragette. She, along with Annie Kenney and Adelaide Knight, was part of the "Canning Town Three", as dubbed by the press. Sbarborough was an early member of the first East End London branch of the Women's Social and Political Union.

Life and activism Jane Sbarborough was born in Quebec in 1842. She worked in needlework and married an Italian shipper Fortunato Sbarborough, who lived in the East End of London, which was known for its poor conditions. She was one of the early members, joining Annie Kenney and Minnie Baldock in the first London branch (in Canning Town) of the then Manchester based Women's Social and Political Union in 1906, holding meetings at Canning Town Public Hall.

Sbarborough, already in her 60s, was with a crowd of around 150 women who rushed the Chancellor of the Exchequer H.H. Asquith's home in June 1906, after he would not accept a delegation including Annie Kenney, who was arrested. Jane had seen the chancellor's servants and had asked why they were involved cheering the arrests. In her own hearing for breach of the peace later, she was quoted as speaking out about the need for the right to vote for both women and men living in poverty in the East End to alter the deprivation endured under the rule of men only in politics up to that date.

Objects and archive materials on display include a rare ‘Ealontoys’ teddy bear made in the toy factory started by the ELFS just behind Roman Road; and the handwritten diary of suffragette Gertrude Setchfield which describes her trips to the East End in 1914 to attend ELFS rallies, on loan from the LSE Women’s Library.

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Death Sbarborough passed in 1925, just as (Jane Sbarabara) did in Wandsworth, London.