Women's Social and Political Union

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Christabel Pankhurst
On her many lecture tours, CP frequently travelled with her close friend Grace Roe , an Irishwoman whom she had met in London in 1908. In nursing training at that time, Grace had attended a...
Family and Intimate relationships Anna Wheeler
Lady Constance Lytton (1869 - 1923), a suffragist active in the Women's Social and Political Union , was AW 's great-grand-daughter.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Family and Intimate relationships Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
EPL 's younger sisters Dorothy and Marie followed her elder's lead and became active members of the Women's Social and Political Union .
Family and Intimate relationships Sylvia Pankhurst
SP was officially expelled from the WSPU for her socialist activities, an exclusion which she fought in various ways; this cemented her split from her mother and sister .
Winslow, Barbara, and Sheila Rowbotham. Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism. UCL Press.
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Family and Intimate relationships Christabel Pankhurst
CP publicly announced that Sylvia Pankhurst 's East London Federation would no longer be attached to the WSPU .
Marcus, Jane, editor. “Introduction / Appendix”. Suffrage and the Pankhursts, Routledge and Kegan Paul, pp. 1 - 17, 306.
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Family and Intimate relationships Dora Marsden
Gawthorpe was a former teacher from Leeds who had joined the WSPU at the age of thirteen and chosen activism in preference to marriage and family. She was a longtime suffragist and socialist, who called...
Family and Intimate relationships Jane Hume Clapperton
JHC influenced her niece Lettice Floyd to join the Women's Social and Political Union .
Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928. Routledge.
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Family and Intimate relationships Christabel Pankhurst
In January 1914, CP called Sylvia to Paris to demand that Sylvia's East London Federation should break its ties to the WSPU . Although their mother's suffragist impulse had originally grown in close relation to...
Family and Intimate relationships A. E. Housman
His sister Clemence Annie Housman (1861-1955) became a novelist and a wood-engraver who trained at the City and Guilds College . She joined the Women's Social and Political Union and threw herself into the suffrage...
Employer Constance Lytton
The Women's Social and Political Union put CL on its payroll as a paid organizer at two pounds a week plus expenses, making the appointment retrospective to the beginning of the year.
Lytton, Constance. Prisons and Prisoners. Heinemann.
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Lytton, Constance. Letters of Constance Lytton. Editor Elizabeth Edith, Countess of Balfour, Heinemann.
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Employer Mary Gawthorpe
MG became a paid organizer for the national Women's Social and Political Union . She worked for the WSPU until autumn 1911 and became one of its leading organizers and speakers.
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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“Guide to the Papers of Mary E. Gawthorpe, 1881-1990”. The Tamiment Library &amp; Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Employer Mary Gawthorpe
MG resigned her position with the Women's Social and Political Union (she had been trying to continue working while bedridden).
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.
450
Employer Dora Marsden
DM officially resigned from her position as a WSPU organizer and began a comparatively independent exploration of feminist issues.
Garner, Les. A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960. Avebury.
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Education Dora Marsden
Though some of DM 's activities and affiliations are unclear, studying and living in Manchester was a highly formative experience for her. By then the city had established strong ties with the labour and suffrage...
Education Christabel Pankhurst
In 1904, with urging from her recently-made friend Esther Roper , CP considered studying law at Lincoln's Inn, as her father had done before her. Her application was dismissed on the grounds that she would...

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