Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst. Kraus Reprint.
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Violence | Emmeline Pankhurst | EP
was violently attacked by a group of young Liberal
s after an Independent Labour Party
victory in Mid-Devon; she later learned that a local Conservative
had been killed in the mélee. Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst. Kraus Reprint. 72-3 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Emmeline Pankhurst | EP
opens her piece by reference to the Representation of the People Act of December 1884, and the strong popular support on that occasion for an amendment which would have included women in the electorate... |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | The magistrate sentenced eleven women (ten arrested outside parliament and one, Sylvia Pankhurst
, arrested at the court) to two months in Holloway Prison's second division (which at this time held convicted criminals, while... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Eleanor Rathbone | ER
's father was the sixth William Rathbone
in a Lancashire family which was Quaker
, Unitarian
, Liberal
and philanthropic. For six generations this family had been the epitome of fair trading, plain speaking... |
Literary responses | Eleanor Rathbone | Opponents of ER
's plans included members of the Conservative
, Liberal
, and Labour
parties, though the Independent Labour Party
gave the plans its official support in 1926. In 1925 some members of the... |
politics | Maude Royden | Up until 1912, the NUWSS had been associated with the Liberal Party
; however, the Liberals' refusal to consider women's suffrage and the Labour Party
's recent concern for it caused the society to change... |
politics | Lady Margaret Sackville | UDC activities played an important role in the decline of the Liberal Party
and the rise of the Labour Party
: Joining the UDC became a sort of half-way house between leaving the Liberals and... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sarah, Lady Piers | But she moves on from celebration to warning: the human race is fallen, and a ruler needs to guard against ambition (This second Paradise, oh hazard not), Sarah, Lady Piers,. George for Britain. A Poem. Bernard Lintott. 12 |
politics | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | Henrietta Mendl (later GHS
) campaigned for the Liberals before the general election held on 7 February, in which her brother-in-law Sigi Mendl
was standing for the Liberals
at Stockton-on-Tees. Schütze, Gladys Henrietta. More Ha’pence Than Kicks. Jarrolds. 69-70 |
Cultural formation | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | GHS
involved herself with the Liberal Party
in about 1906, and the Women's Social and Political Union
soon afterwards. She worked with the Pankhursts
and militant suffragettes. During World War One, prejudice against her husband's... |
Cultural formation | Emily Shirreff | |
politics | Constance Smedley | Living at Minchinhampton opened Smedley's eyes to the poverty and deprivation prevalent in the English countryside, and from a moderate Conservative she became an active Liberal
supporter. The Pageant of Progress, which charted the... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Constance Smedley | The book charts the gradual, up-and-down, always painful but inexorable self-emancipation of these children. Even the naturally conformist Catharine, still living with her parents at the end of the book, is by then much involved... |
Textual Production | Constance Smedley | When CS
first returned to dramatic work after her marriage it was as a collaborator on animated tableaux illustrating a political version of Mary had a Little Lamb (chosen for its connection with the woollen... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Stott | Amalia Maria Christina (Bates) Waddington
, MS
's mother, came from a large, talented and gay family, with a habit of laughter and a determination not to lose touch with each other. Stott, Mary. Forgetting’s No Excuse. Faber and Faber. 16 |
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