John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge.
167-71
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | GHS
involved herself with the Liberal Party
in about 1906, and the Women's Social and Political Union
soon afterwards. She worked with the Pankhursts
and militant suffragettes. During World War One, prejudice against her husband's... |
politics | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | 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... |
Characters | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | As a young man Arnold falls in love with the suffragist Beryl, a member of the WSPU
. Olga is jealously hostile and dismissive of his love, but when the Great War comes neither woman... |
politics | Elizabeth Robins | 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
. John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge. 167-71 |
politics | Elizabeth Robins | While researching her suffrage play, Votes for Women!, ER
became an active member of the suffrage movement. In July 1906 she began attending meetings of the Women's Social and Political Union
, and her... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Robins | 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... |
politics | Henry Handel Richardson | HHR
began subscribing to the periodical Votes for Women (the journal of the Women's Social and Political Union
) in 1909 (two years after it was launched), and to The Suffragette in 1912. Her interest... |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | EPL
spoke at a meeting for female suffrage at Caxton Hall. The leaders of the WSPU
, Emmeline
and Christabel Pankhurst
, had been arrested, of their own volition as part of a staged... |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | The British government, in an attempt to round up the entire leadership of the WSPU
, arrested both EPL
and her husband
, along with Emmeline Pankhurst
, charging them with conspiring to commit damage. Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion. 264 |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | EPL
and her husband
left the WSPU
after Emmeline
and Christabel Pankhurst
declared their intention to run an escalated militant campaign. Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion. 280-2 |
Textual Production | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | 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
. Brittain, Vera. Pethick-Lawrence: A Portrait. George Allen and Unwin. 53 Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion. 179 |
Performance of text | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | 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. Nelson, Carolyn Christensen, editor. Literature of the Women’s Suffrage Campaign in England. Broadview. 65 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Author summary | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | 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) |
Family and Intimate relationships | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | EPL
's younger sisters Dorothy
and Marie
followed her elder's lead and became active members of the Women's Social and Political Union
. |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence |
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