| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Characters | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | As a young man Arnold falls in love with the suffragist Beryl, a member of the WSPU
. Olga is jealously hostile and dismissive of his love, but when the Great War comes neither woman... |
| Cultural formation | Christabel Pankhurst | There is some suggestion that CP
may have had lesbian relationships. She excited devotion among her female followers, and at least one—novelist Elizabeth Robins
—admitted to falling in love with her. CP
also spent much... |
| Cultural formation | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | GHS
involved herself with the Liberal Party
in about 1906, and the Women's Social and Political Union
soon afterwards. She worked with the Pankhursts
and militant suffragettes. During World War One, prejudice against her husband's... |
| Cultural formation | Beatrice Harraden | BH
was born into the English commercial middle class. Although her novels do not engage in much detail with feminist issues, she was a keen suffragist, involved with the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)
. |
| Education | Christabel Pankhurst | In 1904, with urging from her recently-made friend Esther Roper
, CP
considered studying law at Lincoln's Inn, as her father had done before her. Her application was dismissed on the grounds that she would... |
| Education | Dora Marsden | Though some of DM
's activities and affiliations are unclear, studying and living in Manchester was a highly formative experience for her. By then the city had established strong ties with the labour and suffrage... |
| Employer | Mary Gawthorpe | MG
became a paid organizer for the national Women's Social and Political Union
. She worked for the WSPU until autumn 1911 and became one of its leading organizers and speakers. Cowman, Krista. “A Footnote in History? Mary Gawthorpe, Sylvia Pankhurst, <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The Suffragette Movement</span> and the Writing of Suffragette History”. Women’s History Review, Vol. 14 , No. 3/4, pp. 447-66. 450 “Guide to the Papers of Mary E. Gawthorpe, 1881-1990”. The Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
| Employer | Mary Gawthorpe | MG
resigned her position with the Women's Social and Political Union
(she had been trying to continue working while bedridden). Cowman, Krista. “A Footnote in History? Mary Gawthorpe, Sylvia Pankhurst, <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The Suffragette Movement</span> and the Writing of Suffragette History”. Women’s History Review, Vol. 14 , No. 3/4, pp. 447-66. 450 |
| Employer | Dora Marsden | |
| Employer | Constance Lytton | The Women's Social and Political Union
put CL
on its payroll as a paid organizer at two pounds a week plus expenses, making the appointment retrospective to the beginning of the year. Lytton, Constance. Prisons and Prisoners. Heinemann. 311 Lytton, Constance. Letters of Constance Lytton. Editor Elizabeth Edith, Countess of Balfour, Heinemann. 209 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Jane Hume Clapperton | JHC
influenced her niece Lettice Floyd
to join the Women's Social and Political Union
. Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928. Routledge. 166 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Christabel Pankhurst | In January 1914, CP
called Sylvia
to Paris to demand that Sylvia's East London Federation
should break its ties to the WSPU
. Although their mother's suffragist impulse had originally grown in close relation to... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | A. E. Housman | His sister Clemence Annie Housman
(1861-1955) became a novelist and a wood-engraver who trained at the City and Guilds College
. She joined the Women's Social and Political Union
and threw herself into the suffrage... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | EPL
's younger sisters Dorothy
and Marie
followed her elder's lead and became active members of the Women's Social and Political Union
. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Wheeler | Lady Constance Lytton
(1869 - 1923), a suffragist active in the Women's Social and Political Union
, was AW
's great-grand-daughter. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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