Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Christabel Pankhurst
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Standard Name: Pankhurst, Christabel
Birth Name: Christabel Harriette Pankhurst
CP
's early writing career was devoted to advancing the cause of militant suffragism; the second half of her career marked a shift to religious radicalism formed in part by her experience of the first world war.
She worked with Emmeline
and Christabel Pankhurst
, and became a militant suffragette. Like Constance Lytton
, she overcame both natural timidity and physical frailty to take part in demonstrations which were often met with...
Violence
Constance Lytton
Having been sentenced to fourteen days in Walton Gaol
, Liverpool, with hard labour (with the option of a fine), CL
went on hunger strike. Nobody tested her heart or felt her pulse when...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Mary Augusta Ward
The suffrage plot is the vehicle for a conventional romance in which the misguided heiress of an English country estate is tutored in social responsibility, and finally in love, by an exemplary bachelor barrister. The...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Dora Marsden
As editor and then contributing editor, DM
published essays through which she explored her doctrine of radical individualism.
Clarke, Bruce. Dora Marsden and Early Modernism: Gender, Individualism, Science. University of Michigan Press.
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Asked about the paper's stance on women's suffrage, she replied that it was Nowhere, since...
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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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Sylvia Pankhurst
Emmeline's biographer June Purvis
feels that Sylvia, while trying to be impartial, had developed too wide an ideological distance from her mother (and had been too much hurt by her rejection) to achieve fairness. The...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Mary Gawthorpe
She questions the escalation (under the influence of Emmeline
and Christabel Pankhurst
in particular) from attacking property to the kind of violence which she feared would lead to attacks on individuals or even to a...
SP
had an article about her suffrage campaign in the East End of London in the first issue of the journal The Suffragette, which her sister Christabel
launched from Paris.
Romero, Patricia W. E. Sylvia Pankhurst: Portrait of a Radical. Yale University Press.
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Textual Production
Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
At first the journal appeared monthly for threepence an issue, but within six months it began appearing weekly for a penny an issue. Its circulation reached 30,000 by 1909, and much of its profits came...
Textual Production
Dora Marsden
DM
reserved some of her harshest and most frequent criticism for suffrage groups, particularly the WSPU
. She attacked the Union from the journal's first issue forward, for what she saw as a gap its...
Nonetheless, several of her plays have never (in 2008) been staged. One is Wild Diamonds, set in South Africa and seen through the eyes of Olive Schreiner
and Cecil Rhodes, which was commissioned...
Textual Features
Eva Gore-Booth
Several of these poems concern people and places that figured significantly in her recent experiences. EGB
dedicated The Travellers to E.G.R.; it recalls her first meeting with Esther Roper
, who was to be...
Timeline
1866: The Royal Society of Arts established a scheme...
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1866
The Royal Society of Arts established a scheme (believed to be the first in the world) for setting up commemorative plaques on buildings associated with famous people.
Quinn, Ben. “Plaque blues. Cuts hit heritage scheme”. Guardian Weekly, p. 16.
11 December 1906: Millicent Garrett Fawcett gave a banquet...
27 June 1907: The Women's Franchise began weekly publication...
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27 June 1907
The Women's Franchise began weekly publication in London; it featured contributions from major societies within the suffrage movement and from individuals.
October 1907: Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst and Emmeline...
21 June 1908: The Women's Social and Political Union organised...
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21 June 1908
The Women's Social and Political Union
organised a Woman's Sunday which involved (according to the Times estimate) between 250,000 and 500,000 people, mostly women. The WSPU called it Britain's largest-ever political meeting.
27 July 1911: The Women's Franchise, which featured contributions...
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27 July 1911
The Women's Franchise, which featured contributions from major societies within the suffrage movement and from individuals, ceased publication in London.
Earlier 1913: The Report of the Royal Commission on Venereal...
20 December 1918: Britannia, a suffragette magazine which had...
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20 December 1918
Britannia, a suffragette magazine which had opted to support Britain's military efforts during the First World War, ended publication in London.
July 1945: Journalist Barbara Castle was elected a Labour...
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July 1945
Journalist Barbara Castle
was elected a Labour
member of the British Parliament
, where she served for thirty-four years.
15 October 1964: The Labour Party came to precarious power...
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15 October 1964
The Labour Party
came to precarious power in the general election by a majority of four seats; next day Harold Wilson
became Prime Minister.
14 July 2006: The Bow Street Magistrates Court, one of...
Building item
14 July 2006
The Bow Street Magistrates Court
, one of London's most famous courts, closed after dispensing justice for 267 years.
Texts
Pankhurst, Christabel. Some Modern Problems in the Light of Bible Prophecy. Fleming H. Revell, 1924.
Pankhurst, Christabel. “The Great Scourge and How to End It”. Suffrage and the Pankhursts, edited by Jane Marcus, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987, pp. 187-40.
Pankhurst, Christabel. “The Legal Disabilities of Women”. The Case for Women’s Suffrage, edited by Frederick John Shaw, T. F. Unwin, 1907, pp. 84-98.
Pankhurst, Christabel. “The Militant Methods of the N. W. S. P. U”. Suffrage and the Pankhursts, edited by Jane Marcus, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987, pp. 34-50.
Pankhurst, Christabel, editor. The Suffragette.
Pankhurst, Christabel. The World’s Unrest: Visions of the Dawn. Morgan and Scott, 1926.
Pankhurst, Christabel. Unshackled: The Story of How We Won the Vote. Editor Pethick-Lawrence, Frederick William, Hutchinson, 1959.