I recently re-read Helen Margaret Nightingale’s suffrage play, A Change of Tenant . The play was often performed at meetings and fund raisers by suffrage societies, and was also produced by professional members of the Actresses’ Franchise League. Little seemed to be known about Helen Margaret Nightingale, as Susan Croft notes in Votes for Women and Other Plays (Auroro Metro Press, 2009), which includes the text of the play. However, from the few details Susan Croft provided I was able to discover more about Helen’s life. Helen Margaret Nightingale was born in 1883 in Banbury, Oxfordshire. Her father, Charles Frederick Nightingale (1846-1904) was the minister of the Wesleyan chapel in Marlborough Road (still in use as a Methodist church today). Charles Nightingale, who was born in Manchester, began his career in the church in 1865. He had worked in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Bradford, Sheffield, Leamington, Bolton and Torquay before moving to Banbury in 1881. In 1884 he moved to Wolverham...