Emmeline Pankhurst

Written last of the three published Pankhurst accounts of the suffrage struggle, this has been generally accepted as the most objective, couched in a common-sense, matter-of-fact style, but offering a keenly argued, reasoned case for...

SP was officially expelled from the WSPU for her socialist activities, an exclusion which she fought in various ways; this cemented her split from her mother and sister .

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...

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.

SP published a biography of her mother which, despite the rift between them, is more even-handed than her earlier writings: The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst , The Suffragette Struggle for Women's Citizenship.

SP 's mother was the famous suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst . She was twenty years younger than her husband, and joined in his enthusiastic political campaigns before becoming involved in politics on her own. Sylvia always...

Because of political differences and the scandalous birth of her illegitimate child, SP was not permitted to visit when her mother was dying; Emmeline never met her grandson.

From this point the East London Federation of Suffragettes dropped its connection with the WSPU. In 1916, on hearing about an anti-conscription rally organized by Sylvia, Emmeline Pankhurst cabled from America: Strongly repudiate Sylvia's foolish...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

CP adopted Betty (Elizabeth Tudor), one of the four war babies previously adopted by her mother .

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...

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 ...