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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Education | Sylvia Pankhurst | SP
grew up amidst the political discussions of her parents' home. An intimate friend, politician Keir Hardie
, later remarked of this informal education: So that is what is the matter with you! You heard... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sylvia Pankhurst | While in London she became intimate with the labour politician Keir Hardie
, a long-time friend of her parents. He was her lover and, perhaps more importantly, her political mentor from approximately 1904 to 1912... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Katharine Bruce Glasier | They had met through socialist circles the previous autumn when Keir Hardie
invited Conway to a gathering at the Glasier family's home while both were attending the Trades Union Congress
meeting in Glasgow. Thompson, Laurence. The Enthusiasts. Victor Gollancz Limited, 1971. 57 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Katharine Bruce Glasier | KBG
was devastated by her husband's death, but later she began to experience visions of his continuing presence (as she did of her son's presence after he too died). Kelly, Gary, and Edd Applegate, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 190. Gale Research, 1998. 190:125 Glasier, Katharine Bruce. The Glen Book. London. 79 |
Friends, Associates | Emmeline Pankhurst | Among those gathering at the Pankhursts' Russell Square salon were William Morris
, Annie Besant
, Keir Hardie
, Tom Mann
, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
. Mitchell, David J. The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity. MacMillan, 1967. 24 |
Friends, Associates | Emmeline Pankhurst | Keir Hardie
, a dear friend of EP
's after her husband's death, introduced her to Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
, a crucial figure in the revivification of the suffrage movement. Her home in Clement's Inn, in... |
Friends, Associates | Emma Frances Brooke | EFB
's involvement with the socialist and feminist movements of the day brought her into close contact with several notable activists and revolutionaries. Through the Fabian Society
, she interacted with Beatrice
and Sidney Webb |
Friends, Associates | Mary Gawthorpe | During her time with the WSPU, MG
worked with Christabel Pankhurst
(who was twenty-four when Gawthorpe first met her, before she had yet met Isabella Ford
), whom, like Ethel Snowden
, she knew from... |
Friends, Associates | Katharine Bruce Glasier | Her involvement in socialist circles led her to acquaintance with Sidney
and Beatrice Webb
, Edward Hulton
(editor of the Sunday Chronicle), and Robert Blatchford
, for whom she wrote several articles. Thompson, Laurence. The Enthusiasts. Victor Gollancz Limited, 1971. 71 |
Literary responses | Katharine Bruce Glasier | Unfortunately, KBG
's efforts to mediate were not rewarded with concilliation. Instead, her column met with opposition from both suffragette and socialist circles, particularly over its handling of the suffrage issue. Isabella Ford
, for... |
politics | Sylvia Pankhurst | Beginning in 1912, and inspired by Keir Hardie
's dedication to the poor, SP
directed her political efforts at improving conditions for Cockney or working women in London's East End; this commitment puzzled her... |
politics | Emmeline Pankhurst | When the Women's Enfranchisement Bill was put forward, parliament defeated it on 12 May 1905. The Labour Party narrowly affirmed a resolution for women's suffrage as part of its platform in 1906, beginning a series... |
politics | George Egerton | Two days before Britain declared war on Germany, GE
attended a peaceful protest in Trafalgar Square, at which socialists Keir Hardie
and Henry Hyndman
, and Scottish nationalist R. B. Cunninghame Graham
... |
politics | Amabel Williams-Ellis | AWE
and her brother John Strachey
, future politician and author, joined the Independent Labour Party
(which was founded by Keir Hardie
in 1893, gave birth to the Labour Party
, and disaffiliated from it... |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | Fifty years later in her autobiography, EPL
explains how, although Katherine Price Hughes
never explicitly lectured on female equality, the expectations Katherine had for the women in the club introduced Emmeline to the influence and... |
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