Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence

In 1963 VB published an account of the struggle for women's suffrage (as well as many other topics) in her Pethick-Lawrence : A Portrait, a biography of a male suffragist who, with his wife...

Christabel wrote her account in the 1930s, after the appearance of Sylvia Pankhurst 's The Suffragette Movement, but resisted appeals to publish it. The manuscript got as far as the publisher's before she decided...

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 .

EPL travelled to Egypt in autumn 1904 with her sister Marie Pethick and a cousin of theirs who had done excavation work in Cairo and spoke Arabic. Their cousin guided them, and in December Frederick Pethick-Lawrence

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...