Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928. Routledge.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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... |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Gawthorpe | During her time with the WSPU, MG
worked with Christabel Pankhurst
(who was twenty-four when Gawthorpe first met her, before she had yet met Isabella Ford
), whom, like Ethel Snowden
, she knew from... |
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 |
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... |
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 |
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... |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | Christabel Pankhurst
had escaped imprisonment by going into hiding in Paris. The Pethick-Lawrences were released on bail on 28 March, and their trial was set for 15 May. It ran until 22 May. The... |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | She and her husband
probably managed to get there because they came by ship from America, not from Britain, whose authorities were blocking all sea travel. Only two other British women were permitted to attend... |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | After the British government passed the Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act on 2 July 1928, which allowed equal voting rights to men and women, EPL
turned her energies back to her original concern... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | Over the course of his lifetime, Frederick Pethick-Lawrence
served in the House of Commons
for eighteen years and in the House of Lords
for sixteen. He became the Secretary of State for India and for... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | Emmeline Pethick
's close friend Mark Guy Pearse
officiated at her wedding to Frederick Lawrence
at the Town Hall in Canning Town. Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion. 107, 124 Brittain, Vera. Pethick-Lawrence: A Portrait. George Allen and Unwin. 30 |
Friends, Associates | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | During her stay in India, EPL
met the poet Rabindranath Tagore
. Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion. 338 |
Occupation | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | 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. Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion. 183 Brittain, Vera. Pethick-Lawrence: A Portrait. George Allen and Unwin. 43 |
Performance of text | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | 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... |