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.
Sepia photograph of Emmeline Pankhurst, seated in a carved high-backed chair. She is wearing a white lacy button-up shirt with a high neck and bow at the collar, tucked into a black skirt with a high waist. She is wearing a long necklace, has short curly hair, and holds a pen in the hand which rests on her lap. Her expression is challenging.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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
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
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
The British government, in an attempt to round up the entire leadership of the WSPU , arrested both EPL and her husband , along with Emmeline Pankhurst , charging them with conspiring to commit damage.
Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion.
264
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 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
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 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...
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...
Occupation Sarah Grand
SG began giving public lectures this year, the year after publishing her ground-breaking novel on syphilis, The Heavenly Twins. She lectured at the Pioneer Club , the Sunday Lecture Society (at St George's Hall...
Literary responses Sylvia Pankhurst
The book was well received, and enhanced SP 's reputation with the general public. George Bernard Shaw praised it in a speech on the BBC in which he compared SP to Joan of Arc ...
Intertextuality and Influence Constance Holme
The title-page quotes W. B. Yeats : Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.
Holme, Constance. Crump Folk Going Home. Cedric Chivers.
title-page
The country community where the story is set centres closely on Crump, the great house of the ancient Lyndesay...
Intertextuality and Influence Harriet Beecher Stowe
HBS is remembered above all as having contributed substantially with Uncle Tom's Cabin to the build-up of anti-slavery feeling in the North before the Civil War. The sense of her influence is encapsulated in the...
Friends, Associates Gladys Henrietta Schütze
Through her early mentor W. Pett RidgeGHS met various literary men: W. W. Jacobs , Barry Pain , Jerome K. Jerome , Hugh Walpole , and Ernest Temple Thurston . Pett Ridge (P...

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