Christabel Pankhurst

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...

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...

It provides a detailed history of her life so far. Focusing on her work with Theosophy, she also gives details about her upbringing in North Devon and her aversion to the fear-inducing side of Christianity...

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...

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...

Other contributors included Millicent Garrett Fawcett , Christabel and Emmeline Pankhurst , and Constance Smedley .

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...

The other contributors to this important collection were Shaw himself (again pseudonymous) and Mabel Atkinson , Florence Balgarnie , Eva Gore-Booth , Robert F. Cholmeley , Charlotte Despard , Millicent Garrett Fawcett , Keir Hardie

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.

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...

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...

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...

As editor and then contributing editor, DM published essays through which she explored her doctrine of radical individualism.Asked about the paper's stance on women's suffrage, she replied that it was Nowhere, since...

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...