Brittain, Vera. Pethick-Lawrence: A Portrait. George Allen and Unwin.
53
Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
Violence | Constance Lytton | Having been sentenced to fourteen days in Walton Gaol
, Liverpool, with hard labour (with the option of a fine), CL
went on hunger strike. Nobody tested her heart or felt her pulse when... |
Travel | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | EPL
travelled to Egypt in autumn 1904 with her sister Marie Pethick
and a cousin of theirs who had done excavation work in Cairo and spoke Arabic. Their cousin guided them, and in December Frederick Pethick-Lawrence |
Textual Production | Evelyn Sharp | |
Textual Production | Vera Brittain | In 1963 VB
published an account of the struggle for women's suffrage (as well as many other topics) in her Pethick-Lawrence
: A Portrait, a biography of a male suffragist who, with his wife... |
Textual Production | Christabel Pankhurst | Christabel wrote her account in the 1930s, after the appearance of Sylvia Pankhurst
's The Suffragette Movement, but resisted appeals to publish it. The manuscript got as far as the publisher's before she decided... |
Textual Production | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | EPL
and her husband, Frederick Pethick-Lawrence
, launched, as co-editors, the suffragist journal Votes for Women as the official journal of the militant Women's Social and Political Union
. Brittain, Vera. Pethick-Lawrence: A Portrait. George Allen and Unwin. 53 Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion. 179 |
Residence | Christabel Pankhurst | CP
settled in London, at the home of the Pethick-Lawrences
in Clement's Inn, shortly after Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
began working as the WSPU
treasurer. Castle, Barbara. Sylvia and Christabel Pankhurst. Penguin. 50-2 Mitchell, David J. The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity. MacMillan. 30 |
Author summary | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | Militant suffragist EPL
launched and co-edited the weekly journal Votes for Women with her husband, Frederick Pethick-Lawrence
, in 1907. The journal began as the official publication of the militant suffrage organisation, the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | While EPL
was in prison, her husband
took over for her as joint-treasurer of the WSPU. Over the years, Frederick Pethick-Lawrence mediated interactions between the police and the suffragists, and often he was the one... |
politics | Stella Benson | SB
had been a moderate until the death of the Derby Martyr, Emily Wilding Davison
, in 1913. After this she became more militant. When she moved to London in May 1914, she called... |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | EPL
went to prison at least five more times over the course of her fight for female suffrage. She did not suffer from claustrophobia or anxiety in later imprisonments; on the contrary, at times she... |
politics | Ethel Sidgwick | The Congress, held from 28 April to 1 May, attracted 1,200 women from twelve countries, both warring and neutral, to discuss means of achieving peace. Others meeting with the delegates on the subsequent peace tour... |
politics | Lady Margaret Sackville | Some detail about the Union of Democratic Control
is in order here because her membership of its General Council is at odds with the accepted image of LMS
, and suggests that a side of... |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | The police refused to allow her to enter the House, and since she then refused to leave they arrested her. In her autobiography she describes the process of arresting suffragists as routine: she and the... |
politics | Beatrice Harraden | If these actions had Christabel's sanction, she wrote, you have lost your way, lost the trail, lost the vision of the distant scene. Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928. Routledge. 276 |