Emmeline Pankhurst

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...

For the same company she also co-wrote with SydneyStreet Corner, released in April 1953, a film about policewomen. She directed it herself. While working on Street Corner she found herself—as a woman...

The March of the Women was published in the year of its composition in ES 's little collection Songs of Sunrise, through the Woman's Press , with an illustration by Margaret Morris . Emmeline Pankhurst

At the rally Marsden appeared on the Union platform, along with Emmeline and Adela Pankhurst , Flora Drummond , Mary Gawthorpe , and Rona Robinson . Marsden 's suffrage work was also regularly reported in...

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 ...

Hamilton focuses primarily on her professional life and politics, with few personal details. In her chapter on suffrage, Women on the Warpath, she aligns herself with the non-militant, constitutional suffragists, and denounces the militant...

It was then decribed as Smyth's most obviously feminist opera, whose feisty heroine—supposedly based on Emmeline Pankhurst , a rich widow resolved against re-marrying, outwits her suitors in a series of entertaining and resourceful deceptions...

Here MS writes grippingly of her own life, and illuminatingly about myriad subjects of public or cultural interest: the lives, customs, and deaths of newspapers, the conspiracy of silence about sex which had not dissipated...

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...

The novel's other main characters, Mary Thane and Stephen Lattimer, are, like Starridge, writers. One of the novel's focal points is the woman writer's changing role. Mary Thane, a prominent novelist, wants to stop writing...

The second piece here, dedicated to Emmeline Pankhurst , is Possession, a love song only minimally altered from one written by the working-class poet Ethel Carnie and printed among her Songs of a Factory...

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...

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...

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.