Women's Social and Political Union

DM reserved some of her harshest and most frequent criticism for suffrage groups, particularly the WSPU . She attacked the Union from the journal's first issue forward, for what she saw as a gap its...

The March of the Women was performed frequently at WSPU events. From Holloway Prison on 6 March 1912, after being arrested and sentenced to two months for suffrage activism, ES reported: I hear the March...

In the week that CP fled to Paris, an article entitled The Challenge, which she had written for the Votes for Women issue of 8 March 1912, was censored. The WSPU then published...

EPL and her husband, Frederick Pethick-Lawrence , launched, as co-editors, the suffragist journal Votes for Women as the official journal of the militant Women's Social and Political Union .

As preface it reprints Woman's Secret (first published in 1900 for the WSPU by the Garden City Press of Letchworth), which argues that women's disadvantaged position is not the result of a conspiracy by...

As editor and then contributing editor, DM published essays through which she explored her doctrine of radical individualism.Asked about the paper's stance on women's suffrage, she replied that it was Nowhere, since...

This book opens by looking back just over a century, when John Stuart Mill presented petitions to parliament on behalf of women's suffrage in 1866 and 1867. It relates the story of the suffragist movement...

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...

Here EPL responds to the prevailing criticism of the militant suffrage movement, which held that while the movement's goals for female enfranchisement were logical and worthy, militancy was an undesirable way of pursuing them. EPL

In the undated broadside Why Women Want the Vote, published by the Woman's Press with the National Women's Social and Political Union listed as author,EPL gives six reasons why: to end taxation without...

CP settled in London, at the home of the Pethick-Lawrences in Clement's Inn, shortly after Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence began working as the WSPU treasurer.

DM moved frequently during her time with the WSPU . Finances were limited and she was in high demand in Manchester, London, and such smaller districts as Southport and Blackburn. Between November...

Mary Gawthorpe resigned her co-editorship of The Freewoman after DM published there her explicit attack on the WSPU , A Militant Psychology. Gawthorpe had disagreed with Marsden's position for some time.

It had a purple cloth cover with a design by Sylvia Pankhurst in the WSPU colours of purple, white and green (similar to the cover of Prisons and Prisoners, 1914).

MC wrote to the Times again on a more delicate subject: to oppose the plan of the Women's Social and Political Union to sabotage a meeting of the Women's Liberal Federation .