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politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | 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... |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | 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. Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion. 264 |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | EPL
and her husband
left the WSPU
after Emmeline
and Christabel Pankhurst
declared their intention to run an escalated militant campaign. Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion. 280-2 |
Textual Production | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | 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
. Brittain, Vera. Pethick-Lawrence: A Portrait. George Allen and Unwin. 53 Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion. 179 |
Performance of text | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | The National Women's Social and Political Union
published EPL
's pamphlet The New Crusade, which she had originally given as an address at Exeter Hall. Nelson, Carolyn Christensen, editor. Literature of the Women’s Suffrage Campaign in England. Broadview. 65 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Author summary | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | 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) |
Family and Intimate relationships | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | EPL
's younger sisters Dorothy
and Marie
followed her elder's lead and became active members of the Women's Social and Political Union
. |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | |
Occupation | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | EPL
stayed with the WSPU, which, after the split, composed a pledge which all members had to sign: I endorse the objects and methods of the Women's Social and Political Union
and hereby undertake not... |
Friends, Associates | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | In September 1908, EPL
met Lady Constance Lytton
, who later became a suffragist and joined the WSPU
. She and Lytton became close friends thereafter. Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion. 191-3 |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | By this date the prospects for female enfranchisement looked more promising than ever before: Parliament was considering the Conciliation Bill, which would allow property-owning women and wives of electors to vote. While the WSPU
found... |
Textual Production | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | 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... |
politics | Henry Handel Richardson | 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... |
politics | Elizabeth Robins | 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
. John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge. 167-71 |
politics | Elizabeth Robins | While researching her suffrage play, Votes for Women!, ER
became an active member of the suffrage movement. In July 1906 she began attending meetings of the Women's Social and Political Union
, and her... |
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