Women's Social and Political Union

Marsden's first major collaborator was Mary Gawthorpe . The two began their friendship in about 1906 and had since frequently shared personal and professional concerns, including possible courses of action in the feminist movement.

Three Songs by ES (which also appeared in print this year) were performed at the Aeolian Hall in London. Smyth had just finished the two years she took from music to give to the...

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 .

The original sheet, music and words, as sold by the Woman's Press at the price of one penny, was reproduced for the centenary of the Women's Social and Political Union , in 2003.

CP gave a speech at the St James's Hall under the title The Militant Methods of the N.W.S.P.U., which was published verbatim by the Woman's Press the same year.

The Women's Social and Political Union published a 24-page pamphlet by CP , which she had given as a speech that month in Carnegie Hall, New York under the title International Militancy.

EPL published at least eight suffragist pamphlets from 1907 to 1915. In one of these, A Call to Women (undated), published by the National Women's Social and Political Union , she quotes from a letter...

The following year, however, SP demonstrated diligent care for her mother's reputation: she was outraged by one paragraph in Ray Strachey 's The Cause. Though it expressed gratitude and admiration for Emmeline Pankhurst ...

In March 1912 when Emmeline and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence were arrested, ES became, almost at a moment's notice, acting editor (officially assistant editor) of Votes for Women, the official organ of the WSPU . She...

DM resigned from the WSPU in January 1911, having become strongly dissatisfied with its comparatively autocratic structure and narrow focus on the the vote. She was not the only activist to form such a judgment:...

This was nine days after Harraden had performed the daily opening of the Exhibition as the celebrity designated for that date, and had donated the manuscript of the play, bound in green leather, to be...

The chapters which follow these address the difficulties in the suffrage campaign that were brought about by women themselves. A chapter on the anti-suffragists explains the thinking of a group of women led by Mrs Humphry Ward