EPL
became involved in the WSPU after Keir Hardie
introduced her to the Pankhursts, including Sylvia
(Christabel's younger sister), and to Annie Kenney
, in February 1906. Kenney, at Hardie's urging, persuaded EPL
to become...
politics
Christabel Pankhurst
Armed with a home-made banner reading Votes for Women
qtd. in
Castle, Barbara. Sylvia and Christabel Pankhurst. Penguin, 1987.
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(the first public use of the phrase), CP
and Annie Kenney
interrupted a Liberal meeting at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester.
Winslow, Barbara, and Sheila Rowbotham. Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism. UCL Press, 1996.
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Castle, Barbara. Sylvia and Christabel Pankhurst. Penguin, 1987.
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Textual Features
Clara Codd
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...
Textual Production
Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
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...
Lytton, Constance. Prisons and Prisoners. Heinemann, 1914.
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Violence
Christabel Pankhurst
During the WSPU
demonstration on 12 November 1910, which came to be known as Black Friday, police attacked suffragette demonstrators at Westminster, and two women died as a result. CP
's sister Sylvia
Wealth and Poverty
Mary Gawthorpe
She and Annie Kenney
left prison with about thirteen shillings each as payment for their compulsory knitting of prison stockings.
Gawthorpe, Mary. Up Hill to Holloway. Traversity Press, 1962.