Women's Social and Political Union

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...

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...

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 ...

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

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...

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...

EP and some female members of the Independent Labour Party formed the Women's Social and Political Union , with the slogan Votes for Women!

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...

After further government hesitation on the matter of women's suffrage, EP heightened the militancy of WSPU campaigns by explicitly condoning attacks on property.

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...

On the eve of her arrest for conspiring to commit damage at the WSPU 's first violent protest (1 March) EP sent out cloak-and-dagger notices planning another militant action.

EPL stayed with the WSPU, which, after the split, composed a pledge which all members had to sign: I endorse the objects and methods of the Women's Social and Political Union and hereby undertake not...

In September 1908, EPL met Lady Constance Lytton , who later became a suffragist and joined the WSPU . She and Lytton became close friends thereafter.

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...

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...