Emmeline Pankhurst

The women formed this committee (a break-away group from the North of England Society for Women's Suffrage) after backing Labour candidate David Shackleton in a by-election. In exchange for the support of EGB...

Christabel and Emmeline Pankhurst, Mary Gawthorpe, and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence also spoke at this event.

EPL joined the militant Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), which Emmeline Pankhurst had founded on 10 October 1903 in Manchester, and which was now run by her eldest daughter, Christabel.

Charges against the women were dropped owing to pressure from the University Chancellor, the Liberal writer and statesman Lord Morley (now a Viscount), whose speech they had interrupted and who was said to be appalled...

EPL and her colleagues from the WSPU, including the Pankhurst Christabel Pankhurst s and Kenney, presented their arguments for female enfranchisement to Prime Minister Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.

EPL spoke at a meeting for female suffrage at Caxton Hall. The leaders of the WSPU, Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, had been arrested, of their own volition as part of a staged...

NCB kept the salon going through the First World War. In 1917 she organised a meeting of women committed to pacifism which included a gentle, white-haired little woman who turned out to be Mrs [Emmeline] Pankhurst

At the height of the suffrage movement, EPL spoke in connection with the largest procession to date, at the Albert Hall. So did Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, Annie Kenney, Annie Besant...

The British government, in an attempt to round up the entire leadership of the WSPU, arrested both EPL and her husband, along with Emmeline Pankhurst, charging them with conspiring to commit damage.

Anna Wheeler has been called the most important feminist after Mary Wollstonecraft and before Emmeline Pankhurst. Her deep involvement in the Owenite Socialist Movement led her to translating work by French Saint-Simonians and...

After a term in prison, SP described the torture of force feeding in an article published in The Suffragette under the title They tortured me; her graphic letter about it to her mother appeared...

SP sent a letter to the editor of the socialist periodical Forward condemning her mother's support of the Tories; reprinted in several British papers, it brought to the fore the Pankhurst family tensions.

A permanent, visible memorial to SP has proved a contentious issue. Emmeline and Christabel have a statue and plaque near the House of Commons ; Sylvia was felt to be too pacifist and too socialist...

The play was both a critical success and enormously popular, though some trade papers attacked it as being propagandist. Edith Craig directed a nationwide tour (England and Wales) of the play in 1910...

Hamilton focuses primarily on her professional life and politics, with few personal details. In her chapter on suffrage, Women on the Warpath, she aligns herself with the non-militant, constitutional suffragists, and denounces the militant...