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... |
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... |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | The British government, in an attempt to round up the entire leadership of the WSPU
, arrested both EPL
and her husband
, along with Emmeline Pankhurst
, charging them with conspiring to commit damage. Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion. 264 |
Dedications | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | She dedicated it to Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence
my husband and in the many changes of life my unchanging comrade and my best friend. Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion. prelims |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | EPL
and her husband
left the WSPU
after Emmeline
and Christabel Pankhurst
declared their intention to run an escalated militant campaign. Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion. 280-2 |
Literary responses | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | 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... |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | EPL
and her husband
were deeply involved with the newly-formed United Suffragists
, which attracted socially or politically prominent men and women who had not yet openly identified themselves with the suffrage movement. Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion. 303 |