Keir Hardie

This work, dealing with the earlier phases of the struggle, acknowledges the split among the Pankhursts, and confirms that SP felt uneasy about the WSPU leadership as early as 1911. It is a personal book...

The autobiography almost exclusively focuses on her involvement in the militant suffrage movement and on the movement itself. She often reports external events with scant attention to her own part in them. She does begin...

In an unpublished story written in 1932, SP fictionalises a love triangle between herself, her mother, and Keir Hardie , harking back to life events of 1904. Biographer Barbara Winslow argues that the depiction of...

Her subject, Mary Reid MacArthur , 1880-1921 (wife of the trade unionist Will Anderson , who died only two years before her), had done sterling work in the campaigns to end sweated labour and to...

The other contributors to this important collection were Shaw himself (again pseudonymous) and Mabel Atkinson , Florence Balgarnie , Eva Gore-Booth , Robert F. Cholmeley , Charlotte Despard , Millicent Garrett Fawcett , Keir Hardie

Two days before Britain declared war on Germany, GE attended a peaceful protest in Trafalgar Square, at which socialists Keir Hardie and Henry Hyndman , and Scottish nationalist R. B. Cunninghame Graham ...

Fifty years later in her autobiography, EPL explains how, although Katherine Price Hughes never explicitly lectured on female equality, the expectations Katherine had for the women in the club introduced Emmeline to the influence and...

EPL became involved in the WSPU after Keir Hardie introduced her to the Pankhursts, including Sylvia (Christabel's younger sister), and to Annie Kenney , in February 1906. Kenney, at Hardie's urging, persuaded EPL to become...

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...

AWE and her brother John Strachey , future politician and author, joined the Independent Labour Party (which was founded by Keir Hardie in 1893, gave birth to the Labour Party , and disaffiliated from it...

She was an active member of various socialist parties between 1887 and 1891, including the Social Democratic Federation and the Independent Labour Party , though she later called socialism both foolish and wrong.

When the Women's Enfranchisement Bill was put forward, parliament defeated it on 12 May 1905. The Labour Party narrowly affirmed a resolution for women's suffrage as part of its platform in 1906, beginning a series...

Beginning in 1912, and inspired by Keir Hardie 's dedication to the poor, SP directed her political efforts at improving conditions for Cockney or working women in London's East End; this commitment puzzled her...

Unfortunately, KBG 's efforts to mediate were not rewarded with concilliation. Instead, her column met with opposition from both suffragette and socialist circles, particularly over its handling of the suffrage issue. Isabella Ford , for...

EFB 's involvement with the socialist and feminist movements of the day brought her into close contact with several notable activists and revolutionaries. Through the Fabian Society , she interacted with Beatrice and Sidney Webb