Women's Social and Political Union

The Suffragette, official organ of the Women's Social and Political Union , began publication under the editorship of CP during her political exile in Paris.

SP made very little money from artistic commissions, but devoted her talents in visual art to the Women's Social and Political Union . She designed the cover of Votes for Women. Other artistic contributions...

The Women's Social and Political Union published a 24-page pamphlet by CP , which she had given as a speech that month in Carnegie Hall, New York under the title International Militancy.

Among the social reforms she effected, she founded many institutions which would later become commonplace in society: health clinics for mothers and infants with female doctors, a non-profit restaurant or cafeteria, a nursery school, and...

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...

This organisation arose after serious political differences between SP and the leadership of the WSPU (mainly her mother and sister) resulted in the latter group formally moving its offices out of the East End. It...

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...

After appearing with Labour leaders at the Albert Hall, SP was told by her sister Christabel to give up her socialist activity or be forced out of her association with the WSPU . She...

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...

The following year, however, SP demonstrated diligent care for her mother's reputation: she was outraged by one paragraph in Ray Strachey 's The Cause. Though it expressed gratitude and admiration for Emmeline Pankhurst ...

During the WSPU demonstration on 12 November 1910, which came to be known as Black Friday, police attacked suffragette demonstrators at Westminster, and two women died as a result. CP 's sister Sylvia

The National Women's Social and Political Union published EPL 's pamphlet The New Crusade, which she had originally given as an address at Exeter Hall.

Militant suffragist EPL launched and co-edited the weekly journal Votes for Women with her husband, Frederick Pethick-Lawrence , in 1907. The journal began as the official publication of the militant suffrage organisation, the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)

EPL 's younger sisters Dorothy and Marie followed her elder's lead and became active members of 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