Women's Social and Political Union

That autumn, against the wishes of both her father and her husband, she joined the WSPU , organising a local branch at Newport, South Wales. She paid her one-shilling annual membership fee and pledged...

With regard to the suffrage cause, MCwas loosely involved with the Women's Social and Political Union in 1907-8 and in the latter year shared a cab with Emmeline Pankhurst at the great WSPU...

ES joined the Women's Social and Political Union .

In June 1910, fearing an upsurge in violence, CP directed the WSPU to a more conservative position, advocating votes only for women who owned property or businesses, and excluding married women. (Allowing married women to...

EPL and her colleagues from the WSPU , including the PankhurstChristabel Pankhurst s and Kenney , presented their arguments for female enfranchisement to Prime Minister Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman .

In one of her first major public appearances with the WSPU , DM spoke, along with leaders of the movement, at the group's rally at Heaton Park in Manchester, to mark Woman's Sunday.

She was released on bail and fined £10, in addition to £10 in court costs—but she refused to pay. She was sentenced to a month's imprisonment at a jail in Usk, where she went...

The National Women's Social and Political Union published EPL 's pamphlet The New Crusade, which she had originally given as an address at Exeter Hall.

BH 's one-act suffrage play Lady Geraldine's Speech was performed at Prince's Skating Rink as part of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) Exhibition.

IB 's play The Apple was included in a late-night programme of sketches and songs performed as part of a weekend protest against the Census, organized by the Women's Social and Political Union .

In March 1908 BH read a chapter of Ships that Pass in the Night at a concert given by the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) . The pen with which she is said...

ES first performed her anthem The March of the Women (written for the WSPU , with words by Cicely Hamilton ); she dedicated it to Emmeline Pankhurst .

She then accepted Dora Marsden 's offer of a position as co-editor on The Freewoman, although she had turned down Marsden's first suggestion on the grounds that she wanted to finish [her] work in...

In the summer of 1908 she went to Bristol to work for Kenney . Along with other women including Mary Blathwayt , CC campaigned for the WSPU . She went on to become the second-in-command...

After this, DM 's role within the WSPU expanded markedly. She was a frequent public speaker and temporarily took over Mary Gawthorpe 's work as a Union organizer when Mary was ill. Her work was...