“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(6 April 1909): 12
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Material Conditions of Writing | Constance Lytton | CL
spoke at an At Home of the Women's Social and Political Union
at Queen's Hall in London which was chaired by Christabel Pankhurst
. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (6 April 1909): 12 |
Friends, Associates | Constance Lytton | Mary Neal
, a leader in the folk-dance revival and joint founder with Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
of the Esperance Club
for working girls, invited CL
to holiday with herself and some of the girls in autumn... |
politics | Constance Lytton | 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... |
politics | Constance Lytton | 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... |
Publishing | Constance Lytton | 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). |
politics | Edith Lyttelton | EL
supported women's suffrage but objected to some of the radical tactics employed by the Women's Social and Political Union
. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (3 December 1908): 10 |
Textual Features | Judith Kazantzis | 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... |
politics | Naomi Jacob | 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... |
politics | Violet Hunt | Along with fellow author and suffragist May Sinclair
, VH
spent three days collecting funds for the WSPU
at High Street Kensington underground station. Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster. 134 Hunt, Violet. I Have This to Say. Boni and Liveright. 51-2 |
politics | Violet Hunt | VH
shared a self-described passion for women's suffrage Hunt, Violet. I Have This to Say. Boni and Liveright. 51 |
politics | Violet Hunt | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | A. E. Housman | His sister Clemence Annie Housman
(1861-1955) became a novelist and a wood-engraver who trained at the City and Guilds College
. She joined the Women's Social and Political Union
and threw herself into the suffrage... |
Literary responses | Beatrice Harraden | The play's outspoken support of the Women's Social and Political Union
was apparently not popular with the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
. Hayman, Carole, and Dale Spender, editors. How the Vote Was Won: and Other Suffragette Plays. Methuen. 91 |
politics | Beatrice Harraden | 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. Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928. Routledge. 276 |
Performance of text | Beatrice Harraden | BH
's one-act suffrage play Lady Geraldine's Speech was performed at Prince's Skating Rink as part of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)
Exhibition. Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928. Routledge. 276 |
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