Emmeline Pankhurst
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Standard Name: Pankhurst, Emmeline
Birth Name: Emmeline Goulden
Married Name: Emmeline Pankhurst
EP
's writings, produced during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, range from published political speeches to autobiography. All concern her lifelong struggle for women's emancipation.
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Performance of text | Ethel Smyth | ES
first performed her anthem The March of the Women (written for the WSPU
, with words by Cicely Hamilton
); she dedicated it to Emmeline Pankhurst
. Marcus, Jane, editor. “Introduction / Appendix”. Suffrage and the Pankhursts, Routledge and Kegan Paul, pp. 1 - 17, 306. 310 Sadie, Julie Anne, and Rhian Samuel, editors. The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. Macmillan. 430-1 |
Performance of text | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | In 1913 the Woman's Press
published speeches by the accused at the trial of EPL
, her husband
, and Emmeline Pankhurst
in 1912, when all three were charged with conspiring to cause harm. The... |
Performance of text | Cicely Hamilton | A performance at Sunderland the following year drew its cast from more than fifty local women's groups and was attended by an audience of 2,000. In the same year many photographs were taken in London... |
politics | Mona Caird | With regard to the suffrage cause, MCwas loosely involved with the Women's Social and Political Union
in 1907-8 Heilmann, Ann. New Woman Strategies: Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner, Mona Caird. Manchester University Press. 163 |
politics | Emmuska, Baroness Orczy | Politics came to the village of Bearsted in these years in an event which EBO
relates with heavy irony. Bearsted, being conservative like most villages, was strongly against votes for women: the curate went so... |
politics | Charlotte Despard | She was recruited for the suffrage movement by Annie Kenney
and Tessa Billington Greig
, and soon became one of its leaders, along with Millicent Fawcett
and Emmeline Pankhurst
. Of her appointment with the... |
politics | Beatrice Harraden | BH
wrote to Christabel Pankhurst
(who was in exile in Paris) to protest in the strongest terms against her permitting her mother
, and others like Olive Beamish
and |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | EPL
joined the militant Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)
, which Emmeline Pankhurst
had founded on 10 October 1903 in Manchester, and which was now run by her eldest daughter, Christabel
. Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion. 146-8 |
politics | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | The organisation was formed by consolidating all the local societies working for Women's Suffrage. By 1907, however, MGF
turned definitively against the policy of direct action, which had become linked especially with the name of... |
politics | Elizabeth Robins | While researching her suffrage play, Votes for Women!, ER
became an active member of the suffrage movement. In July 1906 she began attending meetings of the Women's Social and Political Union
, and her... |
politics | Christabel Pankhurst | At the meeting at her mother's
home where the Women's Social and Political Union
was born, CP
was the one who gave the Union the name by which it is known to history. Winslow, Barbara, and Sheila Rowbotham. Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism. UCL Press. 3 |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | EPL
and her colleagues from the WSPU
, including the PankhurstChristabel Pankhurst
s and Kenney
, presented their arguments for female enfranchisement to Prime Minister Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
. Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion. 154-5 |
politics | Kate Parry Frye | She officially resigned from the New Constitutional Society for Women's Suffrage
on 30 April 1916. She voted Conservative in the general election of 1924 (perhaps because of the way the Liberals had failed to support... |
politics | Elizabeth Robins | Earlier that year ER
had publicly defended militant tactics, but she was troubled by the PankhurstsChristabel PankhurstSylvia Pankhurst
' move toward a more radical militancy. Gates, Joanne E. Elizabeth Robins, 1862-1952. University of Alabama Press. 205-9, 211-12 |
politics | Violet Hunt | VH
wrote that she would gladly have been jailed for her efforts along with other activists, but because she was the caregiver of her aging mother
and young niece
, Mrs Pankhurst
and Christabel
kindly... |
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