Women's Social and Political Union

CP , Emmeline Pankhurst , and Flora Drummond organized a rush on the House of Commons to begin at this time, infuriating members of the NUWSS by their militant WSPU tactics.

BH was the celebrity chosen to perform the daily opening of the Women's Social and Political Union Exhibition at Prince's Skating Rink in London.

That autumn, against the wishes of both her father and her husband, she joined the WSPU , organising a local branch at Newport, South Wales. She paid her one-shilling annual membership fee and pledged...

Charges against the women were dropped owing to pressure from the University Chancellor, the Liberal writer and statesman Lord Morley (now a Viscount), whose speech they had interrupted and who was said to be appalled...

She was released on bail and fined £10, in addition to £10 in court costs—but she refused to pay. She was sentenced to a month's imprisonment at a jail in Usk, where she went...

Continuing the pattern begun several months previously, Marsden received high praise from Union leaders while she also continued to come under their scrutiny. She was criticised within the movement for her apparent lack of financial...

ES committed herself to the suffragist cause by joining the WSPU , after being sent by the Manchester Guardian to cover the annual conference of the National Union of Women Workers at Tunbridge Wells.

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...

EPL joined the militant Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) , which Emmeline Pankhurst had founded on 10 October 1903 in Manchester, and which was now run by her eldest daughter, Christabel .

CL wrote later that the scales of ignorance began to be lifted from her eyes about the importance of the vote for women when Annie Kenney told her that as a working-class woman she had...

ES arrived at Esbjerg in Denmark, in which country she was to lecture on behalf of the WSPU about the suffrage movement in England.

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...

EPL and her colleagues from the WSPU , including the PankhurstChristabel Pankhurst s and Kenney , presented their arguments for female enfranchisement to Prime Minister Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman .

She was motivated by several cases of brutal treatment of ordinary suffragists in prison, and by an exchange she had on this subject with Mary Gawthorpe . Her idea was to test the difference in...

With regard to the suffrage cause, MCwas loosely involved with the Women's Social and Political Union in 1907-8 and in the latter year shared a cab with Emmeline Pankhurst at the great WSPU...