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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politics | Christabel Pankhurst | CP
, Emmeline Pankhurst
, and Flora Drummond
organized a rush on the House of Commons to begin at this time, infuriating members of the NUWSS
by their militant WSPU
tactics. Castle, Barbara. Sylvia and Christabel Pankhurst. Penguin. 71-2 Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland. 50-1 |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | At the height of the suffrage movement, EPL
spoke in connection with the largest procession to date, at the Albert Hall. So did Emmeline
and Christabel Pankhurst
, Annie Kenney
, Annie Besant
... |
politics | Mary Gawthorpe | During this period, she wrote later from the USA, she was blown by two powerful and regular winds which seemed to keep changing direction, those of the Labour movement and the Woman Suffrage movement. Gawthorpe, Mary. Up Hill to Holloway. Traversity Press. 203 |
politics | Olive Schreiner | OS
did not support the use of violence. As a pacifist, she disapproved of Emmeline Pankhurst
's militant feminism. (She was a personal friend, however, of Sylvia Pankhurst
.) She supported Gandhi
's satyagraha movement... |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | |
politics | Mary Gawthorpe | It was apparently MG
who began the action, when Prime Minister Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
refused to meet the suffrage deputation and she sprang on one of the sacred velvet chairs, and began to speak. Holton, Sandra Stanley. Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Routledge. 127 |
politics | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | Emmeline Pankhurst
, just released from prison under the Cat and Mouse Act because of her fragile condition, needed a place to hold a meeting without being arrested, and GHS
's house was chosen. Schütze, Gladys Henrietta. More Ha’pence Than Kicks. Jarrolds. 102-10 |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | EPL
and her husband
left the WSPU
after Emmeline
and Christabel Pankhurst
declared their intention to run an escalated militant campaign. Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion. 280-2 |
politics | Ursula K. Le Guin | In the mid 1960s her feminism was as yet ill-thought-out. She didn't see how you could be a thinking woman and not be a feminist, but I had never taken a step beyond the ground... |
politics | Natalie Clifford Barney | NCB
kept the salon going through the First World War. In 1917 she organised a meeting of women committed to pacifism which included a gentle, white-haired little woman who turned out to be Mrs [Emmeline] Pankhurst |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | Fifty years later in her autobiography, EPL
explains how, although Katherine Price Hughes
never explicitly lectured on female equality, the expectations Katherine had for the women in the club introduced Emmeline to the influence and... |
politics | Constance Lytton | She attended a preparatory meeting at Queen's Hall on Monday the 12th, and offered her services the next day to the leaders, Emmeline Pankhurst
, Christabel Pankhurst
, and Flora Drummond
. They asked her... |
politics | Rebecca West | Later RW
became a strong advocate for the suffrage cause through her journalism. To ensure her intellectual independence, she refrained from joining feminist organisations, though she admired feminist activists such as Emmeline Pankhurst
and Emily Davison |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | The magistrate sentenced eleven women (ten arrested outside parliament and one, Sylvia Pankhurst
, arrested at the court) to two months in Holloway Prison's second division (which at this time held convicted criminals, while... |
politics | Katharine Bruce Glasier | After their marriage, KBG
and her husband, John Bruce Glasier
, formed an effective socialist partnership very much like that of Sidney
and Beatrice Webb
. They maintained their involvement in the Independent Labour Party |
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