Women's Social and Political Union

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Violence Mary Gawthorpe
While still employed on The Freewoman though not by the increasingly militant WSPU , MG engaged in smashing windows of government buildings in support of a (male) hunger striker.
Cowman, Krista. “A Footnote in History? Mary Gawthorpe, Sylvia Pankhurst, <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The Suffragette Movement</span> and the Writing of Suffragette History”. Women’s History Review, Vol.
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, No. 3/4, pp. 447-66.
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Violence Christabel Pankhurst
During the WSPU demonstration on 12 November 1910, which came to be known as Black Friday, police attacked suffragette demonstrators at Westminster, and two women died as a result. CP 's sister Sylvia
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Millicent Garrett Fawcett
The chapters which follow these address the difficulties in the suffrage campaign that were brought about by women themselves. A chapter on the anti-suffragists explains the thinking of a group of women led by Mrs Humphry Ward
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Kate Parry Frye
KPF 's diary records in minute detail her daily activities as a suffrage organizer: her campaign visits, her organized events, demonstrations attended, and her reflections on the people and places she visited. She also regularly...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Sylvia Pankhurst
This work, dealing with the earlier phases of the struggle, acknowledges the split among the Pankhursts, and confirms that SP felt uneasy about the WSPU leadership as early as 1911. It is a personal book...
Textual Production Ethel Smyth
Three Songs by ES (which also appeared in print this year) were performed at the Aeolian Hall in London. Smyth had just finished the two years she took from music to give to the...
Textual Production Dora Marsden
Marsden's first major collaborator was Mary Gawthorpe . The two began their friendship in about 1906 and had since frequently shared personal and professional concerns, including possible courses of action in the feminist movement.
Garner, Les. A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960. Avebury.
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Textual Production Dora Marsden
DM reserved some of her harshest and most frequent criticism for suffrage groups, particularly the WSPU . She attacked the Union from the journal's first issue forward, for what she saw as a gap its...
Textual Production Ethel Smyth
The March of the Women was performed frequently at WSPU events. From Holloway Prison on 6 March 1912, after being arrested and sentenced to two months for suffrage activism, ES reported: I hear the March...
Textual Production Christabel Pankhurst
In the week that CP fled to Paris, an article entitled The Challenge, which she had written for the Votes for Women issue of 8 March 1912, was censored. The WSPU then published...
Textual Production Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
EPL and her husband, Frederick Pethick-Lawrence , launched, as co-editors, the suffragist journal Votes for Women as the official journal of the militant Women's Social and Political Union .
Brittain, Vera. Pethick-Lawrence: A Portrait. George Allen and Unwin.
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Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion.
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Textual Production Cicely Hamilton
The original sheet, music and words, as sold by the Woman's Press at the price of one penny, was reproduced for the centenary of the Women's Social and Political Union , in 2003.
Purvis, June. “Introduction: The Suffragette and Women’s History”. Women’s History Review, Vol.
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, No. 3/4, pp. 357-61.
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Textual Production Christabel Pankhurst
CP gave a speech at the St James's Hall under the title The Militant Methods of the N.W.S.P.U., which was published verbatim by the Woman's Press the same year.
Pankhurst, Christabel. “The Militant Methods of the N. W. S. P. U”. Suffrage and the Pankhursts, edited by Jane Marcus, Routledge and Kegan Paul, pp. 34-50.
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OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Christabel Pankhurst
The Women's Social and Political Union published a 24-page pamphlet by CP , which she had given as a speech that month in Carnegie Hall, New York under the title International Militancy.
Crawford, Elizabeth. “Books And Ephemera For Sale, Catalogue 190”. Woman and her Sphere.
Textual Production Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
EPL published at least eight suffragist pamphlets from 1907 to 1915. In one of these, A Call to Women (undated), published by the National Women's Social and Political Union , she quotes from a letter...

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2 November 1903: The London Daily Mirror began publication...

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2 November 1903

The LondonDaily Mirror began publication with a woman editor, Mary Howarth , as a penny paper for gentlewomen by gentlewomen.

December 1903: Australian feminist and suffragist Vida Goldstein...

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December 1903

Australian feminist and suffragist Vida Goldstein became the first woman in the British Empire to run for a national parliament, standing for the Senate while two other Australian women stood for the House of Representatives...

19 May 1906: Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, newly-elected...

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19 May 1906

Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman , newly-elected Prime Minister, received a deputation of suffragists.

: The Women's Social and Political Union moved...

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Summer1906

The Women's Social and Political Union moved its headquarters to London; this relocation was emblematic of its shift away from its Independent Labour Party and working-class origins.

23 October 1906: During a demonstration at the opening of...

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23 October 1906

During a demonstration at the opening of Parliament , eleven Women's Social and Political Union supporters were for the first time arrested and imprisoned: for two months in Holloway .

October 1907: Votes for Women, the official organ of the...

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October 1907

Votes for Women, the official organ of the Women's Social and Political Union , began publication in London.

October 1907: Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst and Emmeline...

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October 1907

Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst and Emmeline and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence , wanting to maintain control over the Women's Social and Political Union agenda, removed by fiat dissident members of the executive and cancelled the forthcoming annual conference.

November 1907: Charlotte Despard and Teresa Billington Greig...

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March 1908: Mary Louisa Gordon, who had qualified as...

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March 1908

Mary Louisa Gordon , who had qualified as both a physician and a midwife and had practised medicine in London since 1900, was appointed the first female prison inspector in Britain.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

21 June 1908: The Women's Social and Political Union organised...

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21 June 1908

The Women's Social and Political Union organised a Woman's Sunday which involved (according to the Times estimate) between 250,000 and 500,000 people, mostly women. The WSPU called it Britain's largest-ever political meeting.

30 June 1908: The first act of damage was committed by...

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30 June 1908

The first act of damage was committed by Women's Social and Political Union supporters Edith New and Mary Leigh , when they stoned the windows of 10 Downing Street.

11 November 1908: Hanna Sheehy Skeffington and Margaret Cousins...

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11 November 1908

Hanna Sheehy Skeffington and Margaret Cousins formed the Irish Women's Franchise League , a militant, non-partisan organisation which wanted women's suffrage included in the Home Rule Bill.

May 1909: The Women's Social and Political Union held...

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May 1909

The Women's Social and Political Union held a Votes for Women Exhibition at Prince's Skating Rink, Knightsbridge, London, which netted £5,607 for the suffrage cause.

18 September 1909: Women's Social and Political Union members...

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18 September 1909

Women's Social and Political Union members Mary Leigh and Charlotte Marsh , imprisoned in Winson Green , Birmingham, began fasting; they were ordered by Home Secretary Herbert Gladstone to be forcibly fed.

About 9 October 1909: In response to Women's Social and Political...

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About 9 October 1909

In response to Women's Social and Political Union militancy, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies passed a resolution stating that it would employ only constitutional
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland.
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means towards achieving the vote.

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