Emmeline Pankhurst

One conservative point in ER 's outlook at this time was her willingness to allow pressure for equal pay to slacken. As Johanna Alberti comments, Rathbone believed men in the armed forces were making a...

With regard to the suffrage cause, MCwas loosely involved with the Women's Social and Political Union in 1907-8 and in the latter year shared a cab with Emmeline Pankhurst at the great WSPU...

She was recruited for the suffrage movement by Annie Kenney and Tessa Billington Greig , and soon became one of its leaders, along with Millicent Fawcett and Emmeline Pankhurst . Of her appointment with the...

BH wrote to Christabel Pankhurst (who was in exile in Paris) to protest in the strongest terms against her permitting her mother , and others like Olive Beamish and Lilian Lenton, to damage their...

Politics came to the village of Bearsted in these years in an event which EBO relates with heavy irony. Bearsted, being conservative like most villages, was strongly against votes for women: the curate went so...

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 .

The organisation was formed by consolidating all the local societies working for Women's Suffrage. By 1907, however, MGF turned definitively against the policy of direct action, which had become linked especially with the name of...

While researching her suffrage play, Votes for Women!, ER became an active member of the suffrage movement. In July 1906 she began attending meetings of the Women's Social and Political Union , and her...

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 .

She officially resigned from the New Constitutional Society for Women's Suffrage on 30 April 1916. She voted Conservative in the general election of 1924 (perhaps because of the way the Liberals had failed to support...

Earlier that year ER had publicly defended militant tactics, but she was troubled by the PankhurstsChristabel PankhurstSylvia Pankhurst ' move toward a more radical militancy. She nevertheless continued to support women's issues. In the early...

VH wrote that she would gladly have been jailed for her efforts along with other activists, but because she was the caregiver of her aging mother and young niece , Mrs Pankhurst and Christabel kindly...

At the meeting at her mother's home where the Women's Social and Political Union was born, CP was the one who gave the Union the name by which it is known to history.

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...

NJ began her political life as a Tory who thought Socialism deeply shocking, like all or most of the older generation of her very mixed family. She went out canvassing at elections, urging people to...