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
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Friends, Associates | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | While in South Africa, the Pethick-Lawrences met many prominent political figures, including W. P. Schreiner
, who had been Prime Minister of the Cape in 1898. Emmeline became a good friend of the well-known feminist... |
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 | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | While the WSPU
's recruitment increased during 1907, its governing members began to disagree over its direction: one party wanted the Union to be run democratically with a constitution, while the other, headed by Emmeline |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | The militancy of the suffragists changed from being mostly symbolic to being actually embattled on 29 June 1909. That day Emmeline Pankhurst
and her deputation were arrested for refusing to leave the premises at the... |
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... |
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... |
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 | 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 | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | EPL
spoke at a meeting for female suffrage at Caxton Hall. The leaders of the WSPU
, Emmeline
and Christabel Pankhurst
, had been arrested, of their own volition as part of a staged... |
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 | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | |
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 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sylvia Pankhurst | |
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 |
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