Women's Social and Political Union

BH was identified in an interview of 1897 as a pronounced Suffragist. She was a prominent member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and the Women's Freedom League (to both of which...

Through her regular journal essays and editorial decisions, Marsden not only questioned the methods and goals of established suffrage groups, primarily the WSPU , but also led discussion of such topics as auto-eroticism, monogamy...

If these actions had Christabel's sanction, she wrote, you have lost your way, lost the trail, lost the vision of the distant scene. This letter marked her disillusionment with the increasingly militant tactics of...

EL supported women's suffrage but objected to some of the radical tactics employed by the Women's Social and Political Union . In this too she agreed with her husband, who, she...

That autumn, against the wishes of both her father and her husband, she joined the WSPU , organising a local branch at Newport, South Wales. She paid her one-shilling annual membership fee and pledged...

With regard to the suffrage cause, MCwas loosely involved with the Women's Social and Political Union in 1907-8 and in the latter year shared a cab with Emmeline Pankhurst at the great WSPU...

ES joined the Women's Social and Political Union .

In June 1910, fearing an upsurge in violence, CP directed the WSPU to a more conservative position, advocating votes only for women who owned property or businesses, and excluding married women. (Allowing married women to...

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 .

In one of her first major public appearances with the WSPU , DM spoke, along with leaders of the movement, at the group's rally at Heaton Park in Manchester, to mark Woman's Sunday.

She was released on bail and fined £10, in addition to £10 in court costs—but she refused to pay. She was sentenced to a month's imprisonment at a jail in Usk, where she went...

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 .

DM was arrested for the first time when she was one of a WSPU deputation to Parliament . She was jailed for one month at Holloway Prison and her experience garnered much media attention.

She also joined the Central arm of this organization in 1890, subscribed to the Women's Emancipation Union in 1894 and 1896, and subscribed to the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1907. By 1908...

The Women's Social and Political Union was only just spreading from Manchester, its birthplace in Lancashire, across the Pennines into Yorkshire. MG worked with Christabel Pankhurst in Glamorgan, Wales, to mobilize mining...