Women's Social and Political Union

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politics Beatrice Harraden
BH was the celebrity chosen to perform the daily opening of the Women's Social and Political Union Exhibition at Prince's Skating Rink in London.
Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928. Routledge.
276
politics Dora Marsden
Continuing the pattern begun several months previously, Marsden received high praise from Union leaders while she also continued to come under their scrutiny. She was criticised within the movement for her apparent lack of financial...
politics Evelyn Sharp
ES arrived at Esbjerg in Denmark, in which country she was to lecture on behalf of the WSPU about the suffrage movement in England.
Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head.
101-2
politics Kate Parry Frye
This event motivated her to leave the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies and join the Women's Social and Political Union . Her true activism, however, began in 1911, when she began working for the...
politics Sylvia Pankhurst
Among the social reforms she effected, she founded many institutions which would later become commonplace in society: health clinics for mothers and infants with female doctors, a non-profit restaurant or cafeteria, a nursery school, and...
politics Sylvia Pankhurst
This organisation arose after serious political differences between SP and the leadership of the WSPU (mainly her mother and sister) resulted in the latter group formally moving its offices out of the East End. It...
politics Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
By this date the prospects for female enfranchisement looked more promising than ever before: Parliament was considering the Conciliation Bill, which would allow property-owning women and wives of electors to vote. While the WSPU found...
politics Evelyn Sharp
Later, from 1910 to 1913, she was secretary of the Kensington branch of the WSPU . She was present (as reported by Violet Hunt ) at the suffrage meeting in the Albert Hall in early...
politics Beatrice Harraden
BH seems to have been patriotic (at least in contrast with those of her friends who were pacifists) and pro-Empire: that is, apart from the issue of women's suffrage, fairly conservative in politics. But as...
politics Sylvia Pankhurst
After appearing with Labour leaders at the Albert Hall, SP was told by her sister Christabel to give up her socialist activity or be forced out of her association with the WSPU . She...
politics Constance Lytton
CL wrote later that the scales of ignorance began to be lifted from her eyes about the importance of the vote for women when Annie Kenney told her that as a working-class woman she had...
politics Dora Marsden
Following her split with the WSPU , DM considered joining the Women's Freedom League or the Fabian Society , but instead began to plan for a radical feminist journal that would stimulate discussion of diverse...
politics Evelyn Sharp
She later wrote that she was less able to endure her two weeks in prison with equanimity than were most of the more than three hundred suffragists arrested with her.
Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head.
140-3
She was instrumental in...
politics Beatrice Harraden
BH was identified in an interview of 1897 as a pronounced Suffragist.
Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928. Routledge.
276
She was a prominent member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and the Women's Freedom League (to both of which...
politics Constance Lytton
She was motivated by several cases of brutal treatment of ordinary suffragists in prison, and by an exchange she had on this subject with Mary Gawthorpe . Her idea was to test the difference in...

Timeline

12 October 2015: The film Suffragette opened at the London...

Building item

12 October 2015

The filmSuffragette opened at the London Film Festival, written by Abi Morgan and directed by Sarah Gavron .

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