Lytton, Constance. Prisons and Prisoners. Heinemann.
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Violence | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | She worked with Emmeline
and Christabel Pankhurst
, and became a militant suffragette. Like Constance Lytton
, she overcame both natural timidity and physical frailty to take part in demonstrations which were often met with... |
Violence | Constance Lytton | On 21 November 1911, when Asquith
's proposal for a Manhood Suffrage Bill brought out the suffragists in force, CL
attended as a stone-thrower, armed also with a small hammer. Lytton, Constance. Prisons and Prisoners. Heinemann. 319ff |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Emma Tennant | The story begins a couple of years before the first world war, with the hostile relationship between the author's grandmother, Pamela, the first Lady Glenconner
(a much-quoted hostess and society wit), and Pamela's sister-in-law Margot (Tennant) Asquith |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Constance Lytton | After her release, her account of her continuing campaign both to publicise the suffrage demands and to effect reform of prisons is merged in an account of events on the broader suffrage front: the Conciliation... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Viola Tree | VT
's autobiography incorporates diary entries, letters written and received while she studied singing in Milan, and personal memories. I print these letters now, she wrote, partly for my own edification, and partly, I... |
Textual Production | Iris Tree | IT
was writing poetry by the age of ten, exchanging original verses with Nancy Cunard
, who went to day-school with her. By twelve she was impressing future Prime Minister Asquith
, who had read... |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | By this date the prospects for female enfranchisement looked more promising than ever before: Parliament was considering the Conciliation Bill, which would allow property-owning women and wives of electors to vote. While the WSPU
found... |
politics | Margaret Kennedy | MK
's marriage to a former secretary for the Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith
(1909-1916) solidified her allegiance to the Liberal party, though she never took an active role in it. (Asquith's term was... |
politics | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | Margaret Haig Mackworth (later MHVR
) slipped through a police barricade to confront Prime Minister Herbert Asquith
about women's suffrage as he was being driven off in his car. Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press. 28 |
politics | Marie Belloc Lowndes | The letter challenged a recent antisuffragist manifesto, and stressed three points from Prime Minister Asquith
's statement to suffragists of 14 August. The points were that women had rendered as effective service to their country... |
politics | Constance Lytton | |
politics | Constance Lytton | |
politics | Violet Trefusis | She later stated that the experience gave us the momentary thrill of being behind the scenes, though, of course, we saw nothing, not even the dumpy, grumpy figure of the Prime Minister
. Trefusis, Violet, and Philippe Jullian. Don’t Look Round. Hutchinson. 72 |
politics | Dora Marsden | Following her split with the WSPU
, DM
considered joining the Women's Freedom League
or the Fabian Society
, but instead began to plan for a radical feminist journal that would stimulate discussion of diverse... |
politics | Mary Augusta Ward | MAW
persuaded Prime Minister Asquith
to reverse his support of women's suffrage; the militant suffrage campaign followed on the realisation of political stalemate that followed. Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press. 416-17 |
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