Women's Social and Political Union

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).

MC wrote to the Times again on a more delicate subject: to oppose the plan of the Women's Social and Political Union to sabotage a meeting of the Women's Liberal Federation .

Militant suffragist EPL launched and co-edited the weekly journal Votes for Women with her husband, Frederick Pethick-Lawrence , in 1907. The journal began as the official publication of the militant suffrage organisation, the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)

DM was arrested for the first time when she was one of a WSPU deputation to Parliament . She was jailed for one month at Holloway Prison and her experience garnered much media attention.

She also joined the Central arm of this organization in 1890, subscribed to the Women's Emancipation Union in 1894 and 1896, and subscribed to the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1907. By 1908...

The Women's Social and Political Union was only just spreading from Manchester, its birthplace in Lancashire, across the Pennines into Yorkshire. MG worked with Christabel Pankhurst in Glamorgan, Wales, to mobilize mining...

EPL spoke at a meeting for female suffrage at Caxton Hall. The leaders of the WSPU , Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst , had been arrested, of their own volition as part of a staged...

HHR began subscribing to the periodical Votes for Women (the journal of the Women's Social and Political Union ) in 1909 (two years after it was launched), and to The Suffragette in 1912. Her interest...

After attending her first WSPU meeting, CC was drawn to Annie Kenney . This influenced her joining the WSPU and later the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies .

MG 's rate of work was extraordinary. During the first six months of 1907 she took part in seven election campaigns. It appears that her loyalty to the WSPU was unaffected by the shifts and...

The British government, in an attempt to round up the entire leadership of the WSPU , arrested both EPL and her husband , along with Emmeline Pankhurst , charging them with conspiring to commit damage.

Aligning herself with the non-militant Pethick-LawrencesFrederick William Pethick-Lawrence , ER resigned from the Women's Social and Political Union and the Women Writers' Suffrage League .

Around 1903 when CC joined the Theosophists, she also became a member of the Social Democratic Federation . On her return from Ireland to Bath, where her family had moved, she became involved...

Along with fellow author and suffragist May Sinclair , VH spent three days collecting funds for the WSPU at High Street Kensington underground station.

EPL and her husband left the WSPU after Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst declared their intention to run an escalated militant campaign.