Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head.
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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... |
Friends, Associates | Evelyn Sharp | 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... |
politics | Evelyn Sharp | 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. Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head. 140-3 |
Friends, Associates | Evelyn Sharp | Some of the friends with whom she remained in contact into her final years were Eleanor Farjeon
, Frederick Pethick-Lawrence
, and Elizabeth Robinson
. John, Angela V. Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 18691955. Manchester University Press. 224-5 |
Textual Production | Evelyn Sharp | |
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 | Elizabeth Robins | Aligning herself with the non-militant Pethick-LawrencesFrederick William Pethick-Lawrence
, ER
resigned from the Women's Social and Political Union
and the Women Writers' Suffrage League
. John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge. 167-71 |
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 |
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) |
Family and Intimate relationships | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | EPL
greatly admired Mark Guy Pearse
, an evangelical Christian socialist who co-founded the West London Mission
. She had known him since her childhood, and he became a second father to her. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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 |
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 | 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... |
Occupation | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | 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... |
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... |