Mary Gawthorpe

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Standard Name: Gawthorpe, Mary
Birth Name: Mary Eleanor Gawthorpe
Nickname: Nellie
MG , from a working-class family with a tradition of self-education, became a remarkable speaker and writer on behalf of women's suffrage. She co-edited The Freewoman, working somewhat uneasily with Dora Marsden . Her memoirs, published in her old age after her emigration from England to the USA, give a vivid account of her early struggles.
Sepia photograph of a young Mary Gawthorpe leaning sideways in an armchair with her head propped on one hand. She wears a blouse with full sleeves and a waistcoat over it. Her short, curly hair is centre-parted and brushed back. An inscription in capitals reads "Miss Mary Gawthorpe. National Women's Social and Political Union, 4 Clements Inn London W. C."

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Emmeline Pankhurst
She later deeply impressed Mary Gawthorpe by being the only woman she knew to declare that if given the chance she would not change one iota of her life experience, including her marriage and her...
Friends, Associates Emmeline Pankhurst
EP was by now a legendary figure for suffragists of her own generation and the next. Mary Gawthorpe recorded her first sight of her as neat, dainty, the very picture of discontent and mutinous intention...
Textual Production Sylvia Pankhurst
Her chief motive for writing it was financial: as a new mother and family breadwinner she needed such a project. Longman had approached her in 1928 about writing a history of the suffrage movement; they...
Literary responses Sylvia 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 ...
Residence Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
The Pethick-Lawrences divided their time between London and the country. In town they lived in Clement's Inn (on more than one floor, with the most private part at the top), where the rich simplicity in...
Friends, Associates Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
October 1906, with the prospect of the re-opening of parliament, was full of suffrage activity for EPL and her husband. They had Christabel Pankhurst as a permanent guest at Clements Inn, occupying an office below...

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