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
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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 |
politics | Dora Marsden | 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... |
politics | Stella Benson | SB
had been a moderate until the death of the Derby Martyr, Emily Wilding Davison
, in 1913. After this she became more militant. When she moved to London in May 1914, she called... |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | The militancy of the suffragists changed from being mostly symbolic to being actually embattled on 29 June 1909. That day Emmeline Pankhurst
and her deputation were arrested for refusing to leave the premises at the... |
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 | Mona Caird | With regard to the suffrage cause, MCwas loosely involved with the Women's Social and Political Union
in 1907-8 Heilmann, Ann. New Woman Strategies: Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner, Mona Caird. Manchester University Press. 163 |
politics | Beatrice Harraden | BH
wrote to Christabel Pankhurst
(who was in exile in Paris) to protest in the strongest terms against her permitting her mother
, and others like Olive Beamish
and |
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 | Charlotte Despard | She was recruited for the suffrage movement by Annie Kenney
and Tessa Billington Greig
, and soon became one of its leaders, along with Millicent Fawcett
and Emmeline Pankhurst
. Of her appointment with the... |
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
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 | 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... |
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