Women's Social and Political Union

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) .

BH seems to have been patriotic (at least in contrast with those of her friends who were pacifists) and pro-Empire: that is, apart from the issue of women's suffrage, fairly conservative in politics. But as...

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...

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...

In March 1908 BH read a chapter of Ships that Pass in the Night at a concert given by the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) . The pen with which she is said...

This was nine days after Harraden had performed the daily opening of the Exhibition as the celebrity designated for that date, and had donated the manuscript of the play, bound in green leather, to be...

The play's outspoken support of the Women's Social and Political Union was apparently not popular with the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies . Recent editor Carole Hayman remarks that this play offers the...

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...

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...

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

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

NJ began her political life as a Tory who thought Socialism deeply shocking, like all or most of the older generation of her very mixed family. She went out canvassing at elections, urging people to...

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...

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...

CLtook the plunge, not only of joining the WSPU , but also of volunteering to be one of the next deputation to the Prime Minister (Herbert Henry Asquith ), which would in all...