In March 1912 when Emmeline
and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence
were arrested, ES
became, almost at a moment's notice, acting editor (officially assistant editor) of Votes for Women, the official organ of the WSPU
. She...
Textual Production
Vera Brittain
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...
Textual Production
Christabel Pankhurst
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...
Travel
Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
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
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...
