Keir Hardie

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...

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...

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...

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...

Among those gathering at the Pankhursts' Russell Square salon were William Morris , Annie Besant , Keir Hardie , Tom Mann , and Elizabeth Cady Stanton .

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...

Keir Hardie , a dear friend of EP 's after her husband's death, introduced her to Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence , a crucial figure in the revivification of the suffrage movement. Her home in Clement's Inn, in...

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

SP grew up amidst the political discussions of her parents' home. An intimate friend, politician Keir Hardie , later remarked of this informal education: So that is what is the matter with you! You heard...

While in London she became intimate with the labour politician Keir Hardie , a long-time friend of her parents. He was her lover and, perhaps more importantly, her political mentor from approximately 1904 to 1912...

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...

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...

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...

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.