Women's Social and Political Union

Around 1903 when CC joined the Theosophists, she also became a member of the Social Democratic Federation . On her return from Ireland to Bath, where her family had moved, she became involved...

She had no objection to this kind of violence against official property, though she felt that increasing WSPU militancy was likely to result in escalation of violence against people on both sides. She gave a...

CD became joint honorary secretary of the WSPU , which had recently moved to London from Manchester. (She probably resigned at this time from the Social Democratic Federation ).

EP and some female members of the Independent Labour Party formed the Women's Social and Political Union , with the slogan Votes for Women!

She already thought of herself as a Radical and was sorry when Sigi failed owing to the splitting of the progressive vote. Her work for him included holding a hostile crowd with her words while...

Along with fellow author and suffragist May Sinclair , VH spent three days collecting funds for the WSPU at High Street Kensington underground station.

After further government hesitation on the matter of women's suffrage, EP heightened the militancy of WSPU campaigns by explicitly condoning attacks on property.

HSW subscribed to the Women's Social and Political Union 's Votes for Women.

VH shared a self-described passion for women's suffrage with Sinclair, her longtime friend. Sinclair introduced her to the Women's Suffrage League , the Women's Freedom League , and the Women's Social and Political Union

While the WSPU 's recruitment increased during 1907, its governing members began to disagree over its direction: one party wanted the Union to be run democratically with a constitution, while the other, headed by Emmeline

Early in the war, particularly up to the end of 1914, members of the mainstream suffrage movementt—with the notable exception of the WSPU —were united in their desire for peace. The immediate reaction of the...

On the eve of her arrest for conspiring to commit damage at the WSPU 's first violent protest (1 March) EP sent out cloak-and-dagger notices planning another militant action.

EGB and Esther Roper again offered some support to Christabel Pankhurst and Annie Kenney after their landmark protest at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester on 13 October 1905. But in 1906, they and other...

Aligning herself with the non-militant Pethick-LawrencesFrederick William Pethick-Lawrence , ER resigned from the Women's Social and Political Union and the Women Writers' Suffrage League .

Some of the WSPU 's meetings and parties were held at Hunt's home, South Lodge in Kensington. In her memoir she gleefully recalls introducing Christabel Pankhurst to Mrs Humphry Ward , author and vocal...