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 |
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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 | 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 | 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 | 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 Features | Cicely Hamilton | Hamilton focuses primarily on her professional life and politics, with few personal details. In her chapter on suffrage, Women on the Warpath, she aligns herself with the non-militant, constitutional suffragists, and denounces the militant... |
Textual Features | Ethel Smyth | It was then decribed as Smyth's most obviously feminist opera, whose feisty heroine—supposedly based on Emmeline Pankhurst
, a rich widow resolved against re-marrying, outwits her suitors in a series of entertaining and resourceful deceptions... |
Textual Features | Mary Stott | Here MS
writes grippingly of her own life, and illuminatingly about myriad subjects of public or cultural interest: the lives, customs, and deaths of newspapers, the conspiracy of silence about sex which had not dissipated... |
Textual Features | Judith Kazantzis | Again contemporary documents in facsimile accompany explanatory broadsheets (on the suffrage campaign itself and contextual subjects beginning with The Prison House of Home) and an illustrated timeline, Women in Revolt, running from 1743... |
Textual Features | Ethel Mannin | The novel's other main characters, Mary Thane and Stephen Lattimer, are, like Starridge, writers. One of the novel's focal points is the woman writer's changing role. Mary Thane, a prominent novelist, wants to stop writing... |
Textual Features | Ethel Smyth | The second piece here, dedicated to Emmeline Pankhurst
, is Possession, a love song only minimally altered from one written by the working-class poet |
Reception | Sylvia Pankhurst | A permanent, visible memorial to SP
has proved a contentious issue. Emmeline
and Christabel
have a statue and plaque near the House of Commons
; Sylvia was felt to be too pacifist and too socialist... |
Reception | Cicely Hamilton | The play was both a critical success and enormously popular, though some trade papers attacked it as being propagandist. Whitelaw, Lis. The Life and Rebellious Times of Cicely Hamilton. Women’s Press. 88 |
Publishing | Sylvia Pankhurst | After a term in prison, SP
described the torture of force feeding in an article published in The Suffragette under the title They tortured me; her graphic letter about it to her mother
appeared... |
Publishing | Sylvia Pankhurst | SP
sent a letter to the editor of the socialist periodical Forward condemning her mother's
support of the Tories; reprinted in several British papers, it brought to the fore the Pankhurst family tensions. Mitchell, David J. The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity. MacMillan. 177 |
Timeline
18 October 1929: The Judicial Committee of the Imperial Privy...
National or international item
18 October 1929
The Judicial Committee of the Imperial Privy Council
ruled in the Persons Case that women were eligible to sit in the Canadian Senate
.
30 July 1932: The Independent Labour Party, increasingly...
National or international item
30 July 1932
The Independent Labour Party
, increasingly disillusioned with the Labour Party
's movement towards the centre, took a decision to disaffiliate from its own larger and more successful offspring.
14 July 1970: To mark Emmeline Pankhurst's birthday, the...
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14 July 1970
To mark Emmeline Pankhurst
's birthday, the Suffragette Fellowship Memorial was unveiled in Christchurch Gardens, Victoria Street, Westminster, in memory of all those women and men who worked to bring about women's suffrage.
14 July 2006: The Bow Street Magistrates Court, one of...
Building item
14 July 2006
The Bow Street Magistrates Court
, one of London's most famous courts, closed after dispensing justice for 267 years.
Texts
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