Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence

Standard Name: Pethick-Lawrence, Frederick William
Used Form: F. W. Pethick-Lawrence

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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...
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 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 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.
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This letter marked her disillusionment with the increasingly militant tactics 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 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...
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...
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.
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Brittain, Vera. Pethick-Lawrence: A Portrait. George Allen and Unwin.
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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...
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...
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
Back in England, she contacted Vera Brittain after having read Brittain's Testament of Youth, 1933, to invite Brittain to visit the...
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...
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, 1869–1955. Manchester University Press.
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