KPF
's diary records in minute detail her daily activities as a suffrage organizer: her campaign visits, her organized events, demonstrations attended, and her reflections on the people and places she visited. She also regularly...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Sylvia Pankhurst
This work, dealing with the earlier phases of the struggle, acknowledges the split among the Pankhursts, and confirms that SP
felt uneasy about the WSPU
leadership as early as 1911. It is a personal book...
Violence
Mary Gawthorpe
While still employed on The Freewoman though not by the increasingly militant WSPU
, MG
engaged in smashing windows of government buildings in support of a (male) hunger striker.
Cowman, Krista. “A Footnote in History? Mary Gawthorpe, Sylvia Pankhurst, The Suffragette Movement and the Writing of Suffragette History”. Womens History Review, Vol.
14
, No. 3/4, pp. 447-66.
451
Violence
Christabel Pankhurst
During the WSPU
demonstration on 12 November 1910, which came to be known as Black Friday, police attacked suffragette demonstrators at Westminster, and two women died as a result. CP
's sister Sylvia