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.
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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 | 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. 146-8 |
politics | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | The organisation was formed by consolidating all the local societies working for Women's Suffrage. By 1907, however, MGF
turned definitively against the policy of direct action, which had become linked especially with the name of... |
politics | Elizabeth Robins | While researching her suffrage play, Votes for Women!, ER
became an active member of the suffrage movement. In July 1906 she began attending meetings of the Women's Social and Political Union
, and her... |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | EPL
and her colleagues from the WSPU
, including the PankhurstChristabel Pankhurst
s and Kenney
, presented their arguments for female enfranchisement to Prime Minister Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
. Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion. 154-5 |
politics | Kate Parry Frye | She officially resigned from the New Constitutional Society for Women's Suffrage
on 30 April 1916. She voted Conservative in the general election of 1924 (perhaps because of the way the Liberals had failed to support... |
politics | Elizabeth Robins | Earlier that year ER
had publicly defended militant tactics, but she was troubled by the PankhurstsChristabel PankhurstSylvia Pankhurst
' move toward a more radical militancy. Gates, Joanne E. Elizabeth Robins, 1862-1952. University of Alabama Press. 205-9, 211-12 |
politics | Violet Hunt | VH
wrote that she would gladly have been jailed for her efforts along with other activists, but because she was the caregiver of her aging mother
and young niece
, Mrs Pankhurst
and Christabel
kindly... |
politics | Christabel Pankhurst | At the meeting at her mother's
home where the Women's Social and Political Union
was born, CP
was the one who gave the Union the name by which it is known to history. Winslow, Barbara, and Sheila Rowbotham. Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism. UCL Press. 3 |
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, p. xi - xv. xii |
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. 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. 88 |
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 | Judith Kazantzis | Again contemporary documents in facsimile accompany explanatory broadsheets (on the suffrage campaign itself and contextual subjects beginning with The Prison House of Home) and an illustrated timeline, Women in Revolt, running from 1743... |
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