Christabel Pankhurst

The story is narrated by Isobel, a non-central character who hesitates to involve herself too deeply in the action and is mercilessly relegated by extreme events to the condition of bystander. Nevertheless her voice (that...

The second piece here, dedicated to Emmeline Pankhurst , is Possession, a love song only minimally altered from one written by the working-class poet Ethel Carnie and printed among her Songs of a Factory...

Here MS writes grippingly of her own life, and illuminatingly about myriad subjects of public or cultural interest: the lives, customs, and deaths of newspapers, the conspiracy of silence about sex which had not dissipated...

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...

A permanent, visible memorial to SP has proved a contentious issue. Emmeline and Christabel have a statue and plaque near the House of Commons ; Sylvia was felt to be too pacifist and too socialist...

Despite having been reproved in her youth by no less a person than Christabel Pankhurst for her love of popularity, NJ continued to enjoy opening letters from readers.Mrs Patrick Campbell , to whom...

NCB kept the salon going through the First World War. In 1917 she organised a meeting of women committed to pacifism which included a gentle, white-haired little woman who turned out to be Mrs [Emmeline] Pankhurst

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...

CC took part in the rush on the House of Commons led by Christabel Pankhurst . She was then arrested and sentenced to time in prison, which she served at Holloway Gaol , becoming the...

Earlier that year ER had publicly defended militant tactics, but she was troubled by the PankhurstsChristabel PankhurstSylvia Pankhurst ' move toward a more radical militancy. She nevertheless continued to support women's issues. In the early...

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...

BH wrote to Christabel Pankhurst (who was in exile in Paris) to protest in the strongest terms against her permitting her mother , and others like Olive Beamish and Lilian Lenton, to damage their...

At a breakfast held to celebrate her release, along with the release of seven other suffragists, CC spoke in praise of the work done by prison wardresses. In their treatment of non-political prisoners, she said...

Some of the WSPU 's meetings and parties were held at Hunt's home, South Lodge in Kensington. In her memoir she gleefully recalls introducing Christabel Pankhurst to Mrs Humphry Ward , author and vocal...

EPL joined the militant Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) , which Emmeline Pankhurst had founded on 10 October 1903 in Manchester, and which was now run by her eldest daughter, Christabel .