Women's Social and Political Union

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...

She was arrested in 1909 for setting a pillar box on fire. She worked for the Women's Social and Political Union , the Writers' Franchise League (which she helped found), the Catholic Women's Suffrage Society

She had no objection to this kind of violence against official property, though she felt that increasing WSPU militancy was likely to result in escalation of violence against people on both sides. She gave a...

EP and some female members of the Independent Labour Party formed the Women's Social and Political Union , with the slogan Votes for Women!

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

CD became joint honorary secretary of the WSPU , which had recently moved to London from Manchester. (She probably resigned at this time from the Social Democratic Federation ).

EGB and Esther Roper again offered some support to Christabel Pankhurst and Annie Kenney after their landmark protest at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester on 13 October 1905. But in 1906, they and other...

After further government hesitation on the matter of women's suffrage, EP heightened the militancy of WSPU campaigns by explicitly condoning attacks on property.

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...

When she returned to the north after living in Colchester, DM became more actively involved with the formal suffrage movement, particularly the WSPU . Along with Rona Robinson , she was attracted to the ideals...

At the meeting at her mother's home where the Women's Social and Political Union was born, CP was the one who gave the Union the name by which it is known to history.

HSW subscribed to the Women's Social and Political Union 's Votes for Women.

In an interview in 1896, SG made clear her belief in the need for female suffrage: We shall do no good until we get the Franchise, for however well-intentioned men may be, they cannot understand...

On the eve of her arrest for conspiring to commit damage at the WSPU 's first violent protest (1 March) EP sent out cloak-and-dagger notices planning another militant action.

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...