Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence

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. She was instrumental in...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

If these actions had Christabel's sanction, she wrote, you have lost your way, lost the trail, lost the vision of the distant scene. This letter marked her disillusionment with the increasingly militant tactics of...

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...

In 1913 the Woman's Press published speeches by the accused at the trial of EPL , her husband , and Emmeline Pankhurst in 1912, when all three were charged with conspiring to cause harm. The...

EPL attended the Woman's Sunday mass suffrage demonstration in Hyde Park that she and her husband had organised; by her reckoning upwards of 250,000 supporters marched in seven processions through the park.

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...

EPL 's involvement in the militant suffrage movement was necessarily controversial: contemporaries both lauded and reviled her. In her diary Virginia Woolf described EPL 's style of public speaking in 1918 with some disdain. I...

During her stay in India, EPL met the poet Rabindranath Tagore . Back in England, she contacted Vera Brittain after having read Brittain's Testament of Youth, 1933, to invite Brittain to visit the...

Others with whom she shared this or that memorable experience were the Meynells (Wilfrid , Alice , and Viola ), Clarence Rook and his wife, and Henry W. Nevinson , whom she eventually married...

Some of the friends with whom she remained in contact into her final years were Eleanor Farjeon , Frederick Pethick-Lawrence , and Elizabeth Robinson .