Emmeline Pankhurst

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Standard Name: Pankhurst, Emmeline
Birth Name: Emmeline Goulden
Married Name: Emmeline Pankhurst
EP 's writings, produced during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, range from published political speeches to autobiography. All concern her lifelong struggle for women's emancipation.

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politics Emmuska Baroness Orczy
Politics came to the village of Bearsted in these years in an event which EBO relates with heavy irony. Bearsted, being conservative like most villages, was strongly against votes for women: the curate went so...
politics Constance Lytton
She attended a preparatory meeting at Queen's Hall on Monday the 12th, and offered her services the next day to the leaders, Emmeline Pankhurst , Christabel Pankhurst , and Flora Drummond . They asked her...
politics Mary Gawthorpe
During this period, she wrote later from the USA, she was blown by two powerful and regular winds which seemed to keep changing direction, those of the Labour movement and the Woman Suffrage movement.
Gawthorpe, Mary. Up Hill to Holloway. Traversity Press, 1962.
203
politics Katharine Bruce Glasier
After their marriage, KBG and her husband, John Bruce Glasier , formed an effective socialist partnership very much like that of Sidney and Beatrice Webb . They maintained their involvement in the Independent Labour Party
politics Eleanor Rathbone
One conservative point in ER 's outlook at this time was her willingness to allow pressure for equal pay to slacken. As Johanna Alberti comments, Rathbone believed men in the armed forces were making a...
politics Mary Gawthorpe
It was apparently MG who began the action, when Prime Minister Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman refused to meet the suffrage deputation and she sprang on one of the sacred velvet chairs, and began to speak.
qtd. in
Holton, Sandra Stanley. Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Routledge, 1996.
127
politics Eva Gore-Booth
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 ...
politics Dora Marsden
Christabel and Emmeline Pankhurst , Mary Gawthorpe , and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence also spoke at this event.
politics Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
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 .
Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion, 1976.
146-8
Author summary Anna Wheeler
Anna Wheeler has been called the most important feminist after Mary Wollstonecraft and before Emmeline Pankhurst .
Roberts, Marie Mulvey et al., editors. “Introduction”. The Reformers: Socialist Feminism, Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1995, p. xi - xv.
xii
Her deep involvement in the Owenite Socialist Movement led her to translating work by French Saint-Simonians and...
Publishing Sylvia Pankhurst
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...
Publishing Sylvia Pankhurst
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.
Mitchell, David J. The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity. MacMillan, 1967.
177
Reception Cicely Hamilton
The play was both a critical success and enormously popular, though some trade papers attacked it as being propagandist.
Whitelaw, Lis. The Life and Rebellious Times of Cicely Hamilton. Women’s Press, 1990.
88
Edith Craig directed a nationwide tour (England and Wales) of the play in 1910...
Reception Sylvia Pankhurst
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...
Textual Features Ethel Smyth
The second piece here, dedicated to Emmeline Pankhurst , is Possession, a love song only minimally altered from one written by the working-class poet Ethel Carnie and printed among her Songs of a Factory...

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