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 | 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... |
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... |
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 | Kate O'Brien | KOB
had been brought up, before the Easter Uprising, to admire Parnell
, John Redmond
, and Mr Asquith
. O’Brien, Kate. My Ireland. B. T. Batsford. 112 |
politics | Violet Hunt | Some of the WSPU
's meetings and parties were held at Hunt's home, South Lodge in Kensington. In her memoir she gleefully recalls introducing Christabel Pankhurst
to Mrs Humphry Ward
, author and vocal... |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | EPL
led a deputation of suffragists to the House of Commons
to press the issue of female suffrage on Prime Minister Asquith
, who had neglected the subject in his King's speech at the opening... |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | EPL
led a deputation of more than 200 women to the House of Commons
to protest Asquith
's proposed Reform or Manhood Suffrage Bill. On the way some suffragists began breaking windows, ending the militancy truce. Lytton, Constance. Prisons and Prisoners. Heinemann. 319-20 Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion. 258-9 |
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 |
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