Emmeline Pankhurst

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...

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...

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 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...

Anna Wheeler has been called the most important feminist after Mary Wollstonecraft and before Emmeline Pankhurst . Her deep involvement in the Owenite Socialist Movement led her to translating work by French Saint-Simonians and...

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.

The play was both a critical success and enormously popular, though some trade papers attacked it as being propagandist.Edith Craig directed a nationwide tour (England and Wales) of the play in 1910...

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...

Again contemporary documents in facsimile accompany explanatory broadsheets (on the suffrage campaign itself and contextual subjects beginning with The Prison House of Home) and an illustrated timeline, Women in Revolt, running from 1743...