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 | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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politics | Natalie Clifford Barney | 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 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lydia Becker | One of LB
's allies in Manchester suffrage politics was Richard Pankhurst
. Her letters suggest that she found him congenial and entertaining. Possibly hostile rumours later suggested that she hoped to marry him, and... |
Friends, Associates | Lydia Becker | These two episodes did not endear LB
to Emmeline Pankhurst
. Ursula
and Jacob Bright
remained her close friends. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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... |
Textual Production | Inez Bensusan | This protest was one of many forms of resistance the WSPU advocated in order to put pressure on the government to give women the vote. Women were also encouraged to withhold their taxes. Leaders of... |
Education | Phyllis Bentley | Bentley was the first person in her family to receive such an extensive and expensive education: none of her brothers went beyond the secondary school level, and it was understood that Cheltenham was preparation for... |
Textual Production | Muriel Box | For the same company
she also co-wrote with SydneyStreet Corner, released in April 1953, a film about policewomen. She directed it herself. Box, Muriel. Odd Woman Out. Leslie Frewin. 214 |
Friends, Associates | Emma Frances Brooke | EFB
's involvement with the socialist and feminist movements of the day brought her into close contact with several notable activists and revolutionaries. Through the Fabian Society
, she interacted with Beatrice
and Sidney Webb |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Gawthorpe | Just before this family drama MG
had acquired a boyfriend. He has been identified as T. B. (Tom) Garrs
, a compositor on the Yorkshire Post and an enthusiast about music, whom she had met... |
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. 203 |
Timeline
1866: The Royal Society of Arts established a scheme...
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1866
The Royal Society of Arts established a scheme (believed to be the first in the world) for setting up commemorative plaques on buildings associated with famous people.
Quinn, Ben. “Plaque blues. Cuts hit heritage scheme”. Guardian Weekly, p. 16.
18 August 1882: The Married Women's Property Act gave women...
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18 August 1882
The Married Women's Property Act gave women the right to all the property they earned or acquired before or during marriage.
10 December 1884: The Representation of the People Act, sometimes...
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10 December 1884
The Representation of the People Act, sometimes called the Third Reform Act, extended the male-only franchise.
25 July 1889: The Women's Franchise League, an organisation...
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25 July 1889
The Women's Franchise League
, an organisation committed to including married women in future women's suffrage proposals, was formed in London by Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy
, Alice Scatcherd
, and Harriet M'Ilquham
and others.
27 June 1907: The Women's Franchise began weekly publication...
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27 June 1907
The Women's Franchise began weekly publication in London; it featured contributions from major societies within the suffrage movement and from individuals.
October 1907: Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst and Emmeline...
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October 1907
Emmeline
and Christabel Pankhurst
and Emmeline
and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence
, wanting to maintain control over the Women's Social and Political Union
agenda, removed by fiat dissident members of the executive and cancelled the forthcoming annual conference.
November 1907: Charlotte Despard and Teresa Billington Greig...
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November 1907
Charlotte Despard
and Teresa Billington Greig
left the Women's Social and Political Union
to form the Women's Freedom League
.
21 June 1908: The Women's Social and Political Union organised...
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21 June 1908
The Women's Social and Political Union
organised a Woman's Sunday which involved (according to the Times estimate) between 250,000 and 500,000 people, mostly women. The WSPU called it Britain's largest-ever political meeting.
18 September 1909: Women's Social and Political Union members...
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18 September 1909
Women's Social and Political Union
members Mary Leigh
and Charlotte Marsh
, imprisoned in Winson Green
, Birmingham, began fasting; they were ordered by Home Secretary Herbert Gladstone
to be forcibly fed.
27 July 1911: The Women's Franchise, which featured contributions...
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27 July 1911
The Women's Franchise, which featured contributions from major societies within the suffrage movement and from individuals, ceased publication in London.
25 April 1913: The Cat and Mouse Act (Prisoners' Temporary...
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25 April 1913
The Cat and Mouse Act (Prisoners' Temporary Discharge for Ill-Health Act) received royal assent; the Act empowered authorities to release hunger-strikers from prison long enough for them to regain their health, after which they were...
9 October 1915: Christabel Pankhurst, Emmeline Pankhurst,...
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9 October 1915
Christabel Pankhurst
, Emmeline Pankhurst
, Flora Drummond
, and Annie Kenney
edited the first issue of Britannia, a weekly suffragette periodical and organ of the Women's Social and Political Union
formerly known as The Suffragette.
November 1917: The Women's Social and Political Union became...
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November 1917
The Women's Social and Political Union
became the Women's Party
.
20 December 1918: Britannia, a suffragette magazine which had...
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20 December 1918
Britannia, a suffragette magazine which had opted to support Britain's military efforts during the First World War, ended publication in London.
6 July 1928: Four days after the Representation of the...
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6 July 1928
Four days after the Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act received the royal assent, a celebratory breakfast was held at the Hotel Cecil in London.
Texts
Greer, Germaine, and Emmeline Pankhurst. “Foreword”. Freedom or death, Guardian News and Media, 2007.
Pankhurst, Emmeline, and Germaine Greer. Freedom or death. Guardian News and Media, 2007.
Pankhurst, Emmeline. My Own Story. Editor Dorr, Rheta Childe, Eveleigh Nash, 1914.
Pankhurst, Emmeline. “The Present Position of the Women’s Suffrage Movement”. The Case for Women’s Suffrage, edited by Frederick John Shaw, T. F. Unwin, 1907, pp. 42-9.