Annie Kenney

MG (inspired by the notorious arrest of Annie Kenney and Christabel Pankhurst in Manchester on 13 October 1905) worked with Isabella Ford to launch and run the LeedsWomen's Suffrage Society .

In the summer of 1908 she went to Bristol to work for Kenney . Along with other women including Mary Blathwayt , CC campaigned for the WSPU . She went on to become the second-in-command...

During her time with the WSPU, MG worked with Christabel Pankhurst (who was twenty-four when Gawthorpe first met her, before she had yet met Isabella Ford ), whom, like Ethel Snowden , she knew from...

Mary Neal , a leader in the folk-dance revival and joint founder with Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence of the Esperance Club for working girls, invited CL to holiday with herself and some of the girls in autumn...

From two days after her stroke until September 1918 she had the joy of a perfect nurse,Nurse Oram . That summer CL realised that we loved each other, and no mistake. From that...

October 1906, with the prospect of the re-opening of parliament, was full of suffrage activity for EPL and her husband. They had Christabel Pankhurst as a permanent guest at Clements Inn, occupying an office below...

While at Batheaston (near Bristol), CC and Kenney became very close. They were known to show physical affection and to share a bed. They remained friends until Kenney's death in 1953.