Women's Social and Political Union

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.

This organisation arose after serious political differences between SP and the leadership of the WSPU (mainly her mother and sister) resulted in the latter group formally moving its offices out of the East End. It...

The Suffragette, official organ of the Women's Social and Political Union , began publication under the editorship of CP during her political exile in Paris.

After appearing with Labour leaders at the Albert Hall, SP was told by her sister Christabel to give up her socialist activity or be forced out of her association with the WSPU . She...

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.

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 ...

There is some suggestion that CP may have had lesbian relationships. She excited devotion among her female followers, and at least one—novelist Elizabeth Robins —admitted to falling in love with her. CP also spent much...

In 1904, with urging from her recently-made friend Esther Roper , CP considered studying law at Lincoln's Inn, as her father had done before her. Her application was dismissed on the grounds that she would...

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...

In June 1910, fearing an upsurge in violence, CP directed the WSPU to a more conservative position, advocating votes only for women who owned property or businesses, and excluding married women. (Allowing married women to...

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

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...

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.

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

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 .