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.
14
, 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
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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...
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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
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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...
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Sylvia Pankhurst
The following year, however, SP
demonstrated diligent care for her mother's reputation: she was outraged by one paragraph in Ray Strachey
's The Cause. Though it expressed gratitude and admiration for Emmeline Pankhurst
...
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Evelyn Sharp
In March 1912 when Emmeline
and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence
were arrested, ES
became, almost at a moment's notice, acting editor (officially assistant editor) of Votes for Women, the official organ of the WSPU
. She...
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Beatrice Harraden
This was nine days after Harraden had performed the daily opening of the Exhibition as the celebrity designated for that date, and had donated the manuscript of the play, bound in green leather, to be...
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Dora Marsden
DM
resigned from the WSPU
in January 1911, having become strongly dissatisfied with its comparatively autocratic structure and narrow focus on the the vote. She was not the only activist to form such a judgment:...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
Brittain, Vera. Pethick-Lawrence: A Portrait. George Allen and Unwin.
53
Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion.
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Timeline
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...
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...
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...