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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 ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ray Strachey | The book starts with an account of Mary Wollstonecraft
's work, and proceeds decade by decade, citing Florence Nightingale
, Josephine Butler
, John Stuart Mill
, Sophia Jex-Blake
, and many others. Its heroine... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Muriel Jaeger | MJ
's next chapter deals with the male counterparts of the previous chapter's examples (Frederic Lamb
, but also Dugald Stewart
and Henry Brougham
), setting the Society for the Suppression of Vice
against... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rose Tremain | This book opens by looking back just over a century, when John Stuart Mill
presented petitions to parliament on behalf of women's suffrage in 1866 and 1867. It relates the story of the suffragist movement... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Christabel Pankhurst | Written last of the three published Pankhurst accounts of the suffrage struggle, this has been generally accepted as the most objective, couched in a common-sense, matter-of-fact style, but offering a keenly argued, reasoned case for... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Gawthorpe | She questions the escalation (under the influence of Emmeline
and Christabel Pankhurst
in particular) from attacking property to the kind of violence which she feared would lead to attacks on individuals or even to a... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Constance Lytton | No intelligent woman, she wrote, could spend time in Holloway Prison
without realising that the wreckage of lives seen there resulted not from human frailty only but also from a state of law and public... |
| Textual Production | Eva Gore-Booth | Other contributors included Millicent Garrett Fawcett
, Christabel
and Emmeline Pankhurst
, and Constance Smedley
. |
| Textual Production | Ethel Smyth | ES
's Female Pipings in Eden, a volume of collected essays, included a memoir of Emmeline Pankhurst
, whom she considered more astounding than Joan of Arc
. Smyth, Ethel. Female Pipings in Eden. Peter Davies. title-page Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 1661 (30 November 1933): 851 |
| Textual Production | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | At first the journal appeared monthly for threepence an issue, but within six months it began appearing weekly for a penny an issue. Its circulation reached 30,000 by 1909, and much of its profits came... |
| Textual Production | Dora Marsden | At the rally Marsden appeared on the Union platform, along with Emmeline
and Adela Pankhurst
, Flora Drummond
, Mary Gawthorpe
, and Rona Robinson
. Marsden
's suffrage work was also regularly reported in... |
| Textual Production | Muriel Box | For the same company
she also co-wrote with SydneyStreet Corner, released in April 1953, a film about policewomen. She directed it herself. Box, Muriel. Odd Woman Out. Leslie Frewin. 214 |
| Textual Production | Ethel Smyth | The March of the Women was published in the year of its composition in ES
's little collection Songs of Sunrise, through the Woman's Press
, with an illustration by Margaret Morris
. Emmeline Pankhurst |
| Textual Production | Sylvia Pankhurst | The following year, however, SP
demonstrated diligent care for her mother's reputation: she was outraged by one paragraph in Ray Strachey
's The Cause. Though it expressed gratitude and admiration for Emmeline Pankhurst
... |
| Textual Production | Ethel Savi | ES
published her memoir, My Own Story (a title already and more famously used by Emmeline Pankhurst
). British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Timeline
1866: The Royal Society of Arts established a scheme...
National or international item
1866
The Royal Society of Arts established a scheme (believed to be the first in the world) for setting up commemorative plaques on buildings associated with famous people.
Quinn, Ben. “Plaque blues. Cuts hit heritage scheme”. Guardian Weekly, p. 16.
18 August 1882: The Married Women's Property Act gave women...
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18 August 1882
The Married Women's Property Act gave women the right to all the property they earned or acquired before or during marriage.
10 December 1884: The Representation of the People Act, sometimes...
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10 December 1884
The Representation of the People Act, sometimes called the Third Reform Act, extended the male-only franchise.
25 July 1889: The Women's Franchise League, an organisation...
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25 July 1889
The Women's Franchise League
, an organisation committed to including married women in future women's suffrage proposals, was formed in London by Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy
, Alice Scatcherd
, and Harriet M'Ilquham
and others.
27 June 1907: The Women's Franchise began weekly publication...
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27 June 1907
The Women's Franchise began weekly publication in London; it featured contributions from major societies within the suffrage movement and from individuals.
October 1907: Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst and Emmeline...
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October 1907
Emmeline
and Christabel Pankhurst
and Emmeline
and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence
, wanting to maintain control over the Women's Social and Political Union
agenda, removed by fiat dissident members of the executive and cancelled the forthcoming annual conference.
November 1907: Charlotte Despard and Teresa Billington Greig...
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November 1907
Charlotte Despard
and Teresa Billington Greig
left the Women's Social and Political Union
to form the Women's Freedom League
.
21 June 1908: The Women's Social and Political Union organised...
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21 June 1908
The Women's Social and Political Union
organised a Woman's Sunday which involved (according to the Times estimate) between 250,000 and 500,000 people, mostly women. The WSPU called it Britain's largest-ever political meeting.
18 September 1909: Women's Social and Political Union members...
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18 September 1909
Women's Social and Political Union
members Mary Leigh
and Charlotte Marsh
, imprisoned in Winson Green
, Birmingham, began fasting; they were ordered by Home Secretary Herbert Gladstone
to be forcibly fed.
27 July 1911: The Women's Franchise, which featured contributions...
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27 July 1911
The Women's Franchise, which featured contributions from major societies within the suffrage movement and from individuals, ceased publication in London.
25 April 1913: The Cat and Mouse Act (Prisoners' Temporary...
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25 April 1913
The Cat and Mouse Act (Prisoners' Temporary Discharge for Ill-Health Act) received royal assent; the Act empowered authorities to release hunger-strikers from prison long enough for them to regain their health, after which they were...
9 October 1915: Christabel Pankhurst, Emmeline Pankhurst,...
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9 October 1915
Christabel Pankhurst
, Emmeline Pankhurst
, Flora Drummond
, and Annie Kenney
edited the first issue of Britannia, a weekly suffragette periodical and organ of the Women's Social and Political Union
formerly known as The Suffragette.
November 1917: The Women's Social and Political Union became...
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November 1917
The Women's Social and Political Union
became the Women's Party
.
20 December 1918: Britannia, a suffragette magazine which had...
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20 December 1918
Britannia, a suffragette magazine which had opted to support Britain's military efforts during the First World War, ended publication in London.
6 July 1928: Four days after the Representation of the...
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6 July 1928
Four days after the Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act received the royal assent, a celebratory breakfast was held at the Hotel Cecil in London.
Texts
Greer, Germaine, and Emmeline Pankhurst. “Foreword”. Freedom or death, Guardian News and Media, 2007.
Pankhurst, Emmeline, and Germaine Greer. Freedom or death. Guardian News and Media, 2007.
Pankhurst, Emmeline. My Own Story. Editor Dorr, Rheta Childe, Eveleigh Nash, 1914.
Pankhurst, Emmeline. “The Present Position of the Women’s Suffrage Movement”. The Case for Women’s Suffrage, edited by Frederick John Shaw, T. F. Unwin, 1907, pp. 42-9.