freewoman

(ˈfriːˌwʊmən)

n, pl -women

1. a woman who is free or at liberty, esp one who is not a slave or serf

2. a woman who has been granted the freedom of a town, city, etc

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Noun

freewoman - a person who is not a serf or a slave

freeman

citizen - a native or naturalized member of a state or other political community

freedman, freedwoman - a person who has been freed from slavery

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She was a parish councillor for 33 years and her dedicated service to the residents of the village was recognised in 2017 when she was made a Freewoman of Rothbury.

Lifeblood of a community who gave it her all; RACHAEL NICHOL takes a look at the life of community stalwart Helen Edes

Her contribution to the parish council and her dedicated service to the residents of Rothbury was recognised by Rothbury Parish Council in 2017 when she was made a Freewoman of Rothbury.

Tribute to Helen Edes who dedicated over three decades to Rothbury community; Helen Patricia Edes, 89, sadly passed away in on 12 July after dedicating over 30 years to her community

Mayor of Oswestry, Councillor John Price, said: "Being appointed a Freeman or Freewoman of your town is a huge honour and it is in place to recognise those who have given extensive and distinguished service to the community.

Nominations for honorary role; STAR BRIEFING

The Welsh music legend, 82, will be made an honorary freewoman of the city and county of Cardiff at a ceremony at City Hall on Friday.

Capital honour for Dame Shirley

Frustrated with the hierarchy and lack of class representation within the WSPU, Dora began publishing journals called The Freewoman, which provided a wider range of women's voices on the Suffragette movement.

Four Huddersfield women who changed the world; Yesterday was International Women's Day, and to mark it, reporter SUSIE BEEVER looks at some of the incredible women Huddersfield has produced, their achievements, their quirks and their stories. And none of them featured in your school history textbooks..

We are not certain whether Lydia was a freewoman or a slave, a widow or divorcee.

Lydia and the seed of the Kingdom

Bertha Coats was interested in many areas of welfare in the community but particularly with the wellbeing of children and she was recognised for this becoming a Freewoman of Paisley.

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In "The Outsider as Editor: Three Guineas and the Feminist Periodical," Alyssa Mackenzie uses Woolf's writing about establishing a feminist journal that never came into print as a springboard for her study of how that imagined journal nonetheless illuminates some of the author's ideas about ideal conditions for disseminating polemics that are informed by her encounters with periodicals of her time, particularly Time and Tide, The Freewoman, and The New Freewoman.

Virginia Woolf and Her Female Contemporaries: Selected Papers from the Twenty-Fifth Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf

In late 1911, the radicalism of a new journal called The Freewoman caused a stir inside the feminist movement.

'A Feminist Disciple of Nietzsche': The Case of Dora Marsden's Unstable Anarchism

Writing in The Freewoman in 1912, Rebecca West--herself a supporter of women's suffrage--denounced with characteristic acerbity the increasing popularity of "degradations of the drama written by propagandists," complaining that "the public taste has already been so perverted that dislocated Suffrage speeches...

"A somber passion strengthens her voice": The stage as public platform in British women's suffrage drama